Trying Quotes

As an actor, you're listening to the other person and always trying to be present and take everything they're giving you, but when they're not there you have to produce that yourself.

I try not to do anything I don't like, so I stay motivated pretty easily.

Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.

Because we're trying, because we want, it's very hard to get.

There's something in the Western mind that gets very nervous when you try to talk about the bedrock of ontology.

Unless I try, I'm never really going to be at ease with myself.

I'm trying to make enough money where I can be financially independent and be able to go and just pursue that thing that everybody really needs, just pursue my family and the cause of my family

When I made my theoretical model, I could not have guessed that people would try to realise it with Molotov cocktails.

The longer I live the more I think of the quality of fortitude... men who fall, pick themselves up and stumble on, fall again, and are trying to get back up when they die.

It pays no matter what comes after it, to try and do things, to accomplish things in this life and not merely to have a soft and pleasant time.

Concentrate on the essentials. We will then be accomplishing the greatest possible results with the effort expended.

I like to keep a uniform - wear a blazer, try to keep the same colour pants; very tailored, very fitted but still edgy.

I try to reach out to my idols.

If you can talk and it's convenient to talk, try to say things that edify.

Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.

But I'm a citizen of Texas and try to spend most of my time there.

Mature? Yeah, I get told that a lot. I don't know if it's true. I guess I try to be bright.

We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try prohibition and see what this will do for us

And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.

When it becomes necessary to do a thing, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it.

Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death.

Have you ever hung a piece of black velvet behind you and looked at yourself in the mirror? We are each of us quite alone, and that's what I try to paint.

If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is - and why government keeps growing larger and ever more intrusive.

The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape

I'm going to try to fit in where I can and play the way I can.

The first thing I would do for anyone who's trying to lose body fat, for instance, would be to remove foods from the house that he or she would consume during lapses of self-control.

People get out of music what they want to get out of it, and all I try to do is do the same thing.

Any time you're trying to do a movie with a happy ending, it's very difficult because it's been done before and you don't want to be manipulative.

I don't have to live the roller coaster other people live with my life. It's hard because people try to have an effect.

When we try and use fear or pride to stop from sinning, we are forgetting that we sin because of either fear or pride.

Seriously, I've just realized that almost everyone is a fraud, so I try not to feel too bad about it.

I actually do a lot of Pilates and try to hike every day that I'm home. Also, I dance SO much in my shows and at rehearsals!

I'm going to try to stay buff as long as I can, but it takes a lot of discipline and staying away from your favorite junk food!.

My first gig, I was about 17 or 18. But I'd been singing a long time. I got a guitar when I was 8, and started trying to write songs as a teenager.

I want people to expect more from me because I expect more. If you don't set goals high, you're not trying.

But again, I put in my time with Marvel and DC so there was that period of my life of trying to learn how to draw and tell stories in a proper fashion.

I can't do anything with what's happened in the past. I have to just go forward with the most awareness I can going forward and trying to be the best I can be for our team.

Some of the best motivation in life is trying to impress a girl.

Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a belief in abstract entities.

Forget loyalty. Or at least loyalty to one's corporation. Try loyalty to your Rolodex-your network-instead.

Independent labels take nothing and make something out of it. Major labels buy that something, and try to make more out of it.

I'm currently trying to direct my own material.

We try not to talk much about mental fatigue.

But you know what I'm trying to say, it's that there's a couple of really dangerous drugs out there and I've lost some friends to them.

Wait, wait, wait, wait. Don't try to write through it, to force it. Many do, but that won't work. Just wait, it will come.

You're trying to make your painting too complicated. Paintings get complicated all by themselves.

I try to tell the story about the song with the believability that I've lived it myself and I understand what it's all about.

The truth is, homes change over time — and technology has to adapt, not try to do everything at once.

We try to... we are, I suppose to a certain extent all affected and erm, that is both funny and sad I think.

I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind.