Trying Quotes

From my time in 'King Crimson,' I'd describe a Progressive band as one that keeps trying to break musical barriers, and keeps trying to do new music.

You know when people smile too much? It's painful. I find it really painful. Happy is not very reliable. I'm trying to live like, um, with a fierce calm.

I was trying my best to just stop that ball from going over the fence, I'd sacrifice my body if I have to. I've done that my whole career.

I go out every day and try to play great defense. I know my hitting will improve.

Sometimes I feel like art is supposed to mirror life, but strangely it's as if art is trying to catch up to life, to a certain extent?

What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives

I think it mostly comes down to trying to align with people who are down with a mission and will bring optimism.

But I also like to be in control, like anyone else. I try to achieve a balance.

One of the things I try to be very careful of is not taking a movie when I know I have no inspiration left.

If I had a ghost living on my street. I would try to stay alive, and offer him some meat!

When I am writing, I try to do it five hours a day but I spend about two of those just fooling around.

I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive.

You can do anything if you accept the challenge, rise to the occasion, try harder, and drive it home!

I try to keep my private life kind of private.

I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.

That I was not dueling with the king, but trying to communicate with him, was itself an incommunicable fact.

The more success I have with track and field the bigger my brand is. So I would say I'm more of a brand now, trying to build for the future.

Let me say what I actually believe. I believe that 9/11 was a conspiracy, by Al Qaeda, and Osama Bin Laden, and nobody else, trying to hurt America.

My goal is always the same: to keep the other player from ever scoring a point. That doesn't always happen, but that's what I try for.

Don't try to live. Let yourself be lived.

I love Tris the Divergent, who makes decisions apart from faction loyalty, who isn’t some faction archetype. But the Tris who’s trying as hard as she can to destroy herself … I can’t love her.

Marriage is something I'd recommend everyone to try, if you find the right person, of course.

I'm not that involved in personal grooming. But I try not to be offensive to people.

If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.

I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.

I believe, whatever God does, he does it for the good. I always try to look at life like that.

If you try to make music and try to convey to everyone that everything is all peachy-keen, you might come off like you're full of it, and that could be something that draws listeners away.

The only thing to do is to go one's own way, to try one's best, to make the thing live.

There is the first satisfaction of arranging it on a bit of paper; after many, many false tries, false moves, finally you have the sentence you recognize as the one you are looking for.

Americans try to talk about positive family values, although the actual state of things is disastrous.

All her life she had made her own mistakes and her own successes, both usually by trying what others said she could not do.

I used to try and concentrate the poem so much that there wasn't a word that wasn't essential. This leads to becoming boring and constipated.

Do not try to convert others to your point of view, except by holding it and living accordingly.

Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.

Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.

I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can do both I'll be happy.

Trying to get government to be as efficient as business is as hopeless as trying to teach cats to bark and dogs to meow.

To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic.

Try to look for weaknesses in your thinking.

Try to establish the value of a company.

Coaching is about not being afraid to be challenged and, above all, trying to enjoy the experience.

In interactions with others, instead of trying to be right, why don't we try being kind?

We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer.

At the end of the day, we're just trying to prevent each other from going mad.

The budget is like a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythical beans into it, then reaches in and tries to pull real ones out.

Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.

Rotation of crops and less automobiles will relieve the farmers whenever they decide to try it.

It looks to me like the candidates are trying to relieve the farmer of his vote, instead of his debts.

I am just an old country boy in a big town trying to get along. I have been eating pretty regular and the reason I have been is because I have stayed an old country boy.

What the Secretary of Agriculture is trying to do is to teach the farmer corn acreage control, and the hogs birth control, and one is just as hard to make understand it as the other.