Trying Quotes

I'm not a cheerleader. I'm not trying to pretend to be sweet and then come out and be bad. This is who I am.

I'm a task-oriented actor. A pretender. And I try to invent my process anew each time I make a new project. So I frown on any method.

Even though I'm a realist, I try to let the medium show and allow it a certain degree of freedom.

How readily we wish time spent revoked, that we might try the ground again where once--through inexperience, as we now perceive--we missed that happiness we might have found!

I try to watch only real things, which basically amounts to C-Span for me. I like real people in real situations. I learn from that.

The hardest job of all is trying to look busy when you're not.

I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.

It was the moment I learned acting is not acting out. After that light went on, I spent the rest of my life trying to figure out how to make other people realize it.

I challenge every business person in America who has ever complained about the failure of the welfare system to try to hire somebody off welfare. And try hard.

As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate!

A man who couldn't make things go right could at least go. He could quit trying to get out of the way of life. Chuck routine. Live the real jeopardy of circumstance. It was a question of dignity.

The women I love most are Latina - my sister, mother, and daughter. They're spontaneous but spend a majority of their time trying to make others happy.

You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study the effects of light and shade on natures own hues and tints.

Look at what people are trying to conceal, and you’ll see that they’re revealing everything.

It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off.

We are the meeting place, an entity that's trying to connect faith and culture.

I have spent my career trying to get Congressmen to spend the people's money as if it were their own. But I have failed.

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

Just for the hell of it, try to love someone as unlike you as possible.

We're still here trying to get the word out that 330 farmers are quitting every week.

If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past, it will lose the future.

We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges

All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.

Don't we all just really try to fake it well?

I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.

The decaying that had dragged on for too long had only turned tragedy into nuisance; death, when it strikes, better completes its annihilating act on the first try.

Somethings don't always work out the way you plan. The main thing is to keep trying, do better next time, and deal with disappointment if it comes.

I admire all people who are trying to be a good power in this chaotic world.

Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.

But I'm really trying to run this company like it is going to be here a hundred years from now. That's what's important.

All I'm trying to do is make music that people like and that makes people happy.

English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.

I know to argue against our online lives seems like the argument of the grumpy, old Luddite novelist, but I really always try to make the argument from the perspective of personal pleasure.

This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.

Why don’t you try wandering with me to the Palace of Not-Even-Anything

I am not trying to be better than my father. I am not trying to be like him. I am just trying to be myself and express myself how I feel.

I am freely able to express myself honestly to the public without trying to polish it over, trying to hide something. I'm just trying to be free with my expression.

I'm being hypocritical because I have a Twitter, but I try to not talk about things like, 'Oh, I had a grapefruit this morning and it was delicious,' because, who cares?

I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.

I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.

Uniqlo as a company has always developed new fabrics and is always trying to be innovative. The design is simple, so the fabric is important.

Trying to run Congress without human relationships is like trying to run a car without motor oil. Should we be surprised when the whole thing freezes up?

In a marriage, you struggle and struggle and struggle, and then you realize that you have to ride the horse in the direction it's going. You stop trying to pull the reins in another direction.

Want to be happy? Stop trying to be perfect.

You always think, no matter how many times you fail, that the next time you will succeed. Otherwise you wouldn't keep trying.

The thing I most connect with is the idea of not giving up. And thats a thing I have in my own life. You have to trust your instincts and keep trying.

Men, all men, were always trying to get hold of me, you know.

I keep trying to train myself to stop saying 'filmmaker' and start saying 'storyteller.' We're telling stories.

I do love making films. I want to be a filmmaker that grows and progresses and does keep trying to push myself. I think that's it... and a bit of confidence maybe.

It's difficult to stop trying with the one you love. You always hope that this next time might work, might change everything for the better.