Trying Quotes

An actor should be ready to play any role within reason. For example, I think the most ridiculous thing for me to do would be to try and play Shakespeare.

But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to get to is the positive value of negation.

So I went to Chicago in 1940, I think, '41, and the photographs that I made there, aside from fashion, were things that I was trying to express in a social conscious way.

No matter how well you think you've hidden, you'll always leave behind a trace. And the more you try to hide that trace, the more obvious and troublesome it will become.

You can do any number of things in the music business aside from trying to look like you're 25. To me it's embarrassing.

The first mistake is trying to explain morality to a terrorist. Like trying to teach a rock to drive. It is impossible.

I have been going to the gym instead of the bar, trying to get back down to my fighting weight.

I never do pictures that I've done before - but I really try not to. Whenever I get an assignment I try to think how to shoot this person for this story in this magazine at this point in time.

I won't try to be anybody else. I just try to be myself.

In a way, the blank canvas... represents the infinity of trying to use color to express emotions - to assign a linguistic function to color.

I'm not giving up on my work. I'm still trying to challenge people's aesthetics and myself.

After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.

I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it's not about the ring. It's a grave thing, getting married.

I suffer from vertigo. It's paralyzing in extreme situations. The most scared I've been as an adult was trying to conquer that fear by going climbing in Wales.

Don't try to live too many days at a time.

I struggle every day with trying to be a better dad, a better husband, better musician, better artist. It consumes me, and I don't see an end in sight.

We found ourselves in a hole that I didn't dig, but I have dug, dug and dug to try to get out of that hole.

The likelihood of one individual being right increases in direct proportion to the intensity to which others are trying to prove him wrong.

Uhm, I'm the one wanting the lessons! I don't want to say too much about it because I'd rather have you see the movie, but he's trying to find his music.

I just continue to be kind of disappointed that people don't realize that and try and diversify the kind of work they are doing in comics.

The man who tries to prove his belief superior to the faith of another, does not know the meaning of religion.

I try to eat how your mother wanted you to eat when you were young.

To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation.

Women spend their lives trying to look good for men. So a woman who feels she's sending the right visual signals is pleased with herself.

We spend our lives trying to get along with people so we can keep our jobs, keep our marriages together, so that we can raise our kids properly.

I do not like the world as it is; so I am trying to make it a little more as I want it.

I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation

Our tendency is to run from the painful realities or try to change them as soon as possible. But cure without care makes us into rulers, controllers, manipulators.

The President so far has struck me as a man who is trying hard to keep his balance. He certainly has been very receptive to all my efforts in these directions.

He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment.

Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.

If we reconstructed human spirituality painstakingly, we would end up with a mangnificent tree whose branches go in so many directions, yet all trying to touch the heavens.

Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Do not try to produce an ideal child, it would find no fitness in this world.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

I would try doing a dish 30 different ways.

What I try to do is don't have any ups and downs. I emphasize taking the same approach.

I am a competitive person with myself. I always find new goals to achieve, new challenges to breakthrough, and I try and do something new every day. And I'm highly competitive with myself.

Try not to have idols: they are interchangeable and lead to a wantonness that is easily mistaken for love.

I think that if you live long enough, you realize that so much of what happens in life is out of your control, but how you respond to it is in your control. That's what I try to remember.

Often times when you face such an overwhelming challenge as global climate change, it can be somewhat daunting - it's kind of like trying to lose weight, which I know something about.

Don't try to convert the elderly person; circumvent him.

The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.

I try not to listen to a lot of music when I'm starting the recording process, because it can be so subtly influential.

Do not try to find out - we're forbidden to know - what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.

In trying to teach children a great deal in a short time, they are treated not as though the race they were to run was for life, but simply a three-mile heat.

I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try.

Your subjects have had a history - try to reveal it in your picture.

The best practical advice then is: try to maximize your expected payoff, which is the sum of all payoffs multiplied by probabilities.

After black's reply to 1.e4 with 1..e5, leaves him always trying to get into the game