Trying Quotes

When you hear my records today hear a vanilla sounding artist with no black inflection, although I was trying to imitate what I heard.

When there is a storm in your life, it is not the time to build. No creature on earth tries to build during a storm. Conserve your energy until the storm passes.

Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin.

Housekeeping is incredibly difficult with three kids. I'm trying to be more relaxed. You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house

Ideals, my girl,” she says. “Always easier to believe in than live.” “But if you don't at least try to live them,” Bradley says, “then there's no point in living at all.

Be yourself! Love your mom, but if she's trying to get you to be someone you're not, she's in the wrong

I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen.

Even to me, as I was trying to tell the government what had happened, it just didn't seem to matter.

Risks are a measure of people. People who won't take them are trying to preserve what they have. People who do take them often end up having more.

The idea of starting a band because of Nirvana and thereby trying to sound like Nirvana is totally not the case.

I try hard to be a good Catholic.

Saddam spent 35 years stealing and wasting money, and all of these systems are very fragile and brittle, and you try to fix one thing and something else gets in trouble.

Before you start trying to work out which direction the property market is headed, you should be aware that there are markets within markets.

I think of what the experience is of going into the building, of spending time in it, and try to get a sense of what the building would be like to work in as well.

I don't ever try to make a serious social comment.

I never ask my wife about my flaws. Instead I try to get her to ignore them and concentrate on my sense of humor.

I don't get caught in the match-ups, trying to outduel somebody. It's a team game.

Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.

I was very concerned that President Bush is still trying to frighten or scare the American people with respect to the condition of the Social Security system.

Optimists, by contrast, look for specific, limited, short-term explanations for bad events, and as a result, in the face of a setback, they’re more likely to pick themselves up and try again.

Let's try winning and see what it feels like. If we don't like it, we can go back to our traditions.

Without trying, I'm different.

What changed their mind was Jimmy Carter's intervention against the Christian schools, trying to deny them tax-exempt status on the basis of so-called de facto segregation.

Many nations are like rebellious teenagers who try to figure out just how many times they can kick us in the teeth while still taking our money.

I don't try to intellectualize characters too much. But I always think of the audience. I always make sure that my characters are likeable.

He tries to show each person how much they are capable of achieving.

We buy books, we go to gyms, we expend a lot of brain power on trying to hold back time, when we should be celebrating the miracle of being here in this world.

When trying to seduce a woman, a writer says: 'I'm a writer', and scribbles a poem on a napkin. It always works.

The pain and suffering that comes to us has a purpose in our lives-it is trying to teach us something. We should look for its lesson.

Sometimes I would make myself very still and try to imagine myself dead. I tried to invoke the feeling of the very last breath I would take.

We're not trying to be something we aren't; rather, we're reconnecting with who we are.

I try to look at the whole thing and say 'yes' to the projects that I cannot stop thinking about. If I read a script and the subject stays with me - then that's when I want to go to work.

When someone is trying to interpret something for you, they always have an agenda.

If I were trying to avoid embarrassment, I wouldn't have stumbled my way through 'Dancing with the Stars.'

That's the way it is with entrepreneurial people. You try one thing, it doesn't work, you try another.

My wife and I have spent half our lives, half our adult lives, trying to save special parts of California.

For the most part, I hang out in my back yard with my dog, but there's no paparazzi trying to check that out.

Try the Lamentations of Jeremiah. They always pick me up.

If you never lived out your sexuality - it's a great force, and if you try to fight it, what does that create? Energy: positive and negative, self-loathing.

I'm still not sure what pulled me into the career I chose, even though, now, I can't imagine having done anything else. Mostly, I think I wanted to be a writer, or at least to try for a while.

When you've got eight or nine or ten cables running around with someone trying to operate them, it's too much.

The more attached we are to a vision of the future, the less present we are to what is actually trying to emerge here and now.

I do not believe great organizations have ever been built by trying to emulate another, any more than individual greatness is achieved by trying to copy another 'great person'.

Woe to the man who tries to stretch the imagination of man He shall be mocked he shall be scourged by the blinkered guardians of morality.

Lyrically, I could be so much sharper. Melodically, I could be so much stickier. Musically, I could have so much more texture. So I'm constantly doing that, trying to find new ways to mix things up.

Like with Berle, he was always trying to steal the scene, get a little extra.

In a civil war… every side is wrong. It’s hopeless to try to untangle it. Everyone is a victim.

I decided that expressionism was a cheap way of getting a reaction - show anybody ripped apart, and you get sympathy. I was deliberately trying to show the human body as whole and relatively healthy.

If I was a little bit younger I would worry more. I'd want to do one thing at a time but now I try to do a bunch of different things at a time if I can.

I'm not so interested in the effort that it takes to have a self-promotional outlook. I believe in being quiet and making my work and just trying to make discoveries and let the painting evolve.