Trying Quotes
Remember, if you succeed in everything you try in life, you're living below your full potential and you should take up more difficult or daring things.
I've always been against trying to make a movie like another movie. That's lame. It's already been done, so why do it again?
There's a lot of disorder that comes along with wanting to know everything and wanting to try everything and wanting to experience everything, but there's a lot of knowledge that comes out of it too.
Not since I was 10, trying to get Nick Vossler's attention in PE. 'Red Rover, Red Rover, send Nicholas right over!'
When I look back on the stuff I used to wear, I wonder why somebody didn't try to stop me. Just a friendly warning, "You may regret this," would have been fine.
I'm sure men have their own ways of trying to demean one another, but women can be very gossipy and judgmental, and that doesn't help.
I like radically cutting into the painting, inserting these paper birds, and then trying to figure out how to believe in it.
I am seeing change at earlier stage start-up companies. For a lot of big companies, the ship has sailed. They are trying to bolt on diversity and inclusion.
I always think that the most interesting characters are those that are trying to cover something or those that have some sense of bravado or composure.
I would rather do a project that I've invested so much time to, rather than try to get a part on another show.
My songs, well, they are sad, but in all of them the person singing them - me or whoever - is actually still trying and hasn't given up yet.
Here's the thing: We have plenty of time. These are cockroaches and we want to kill them all. They're just absolute pieces of garbage and we will get them. So why don't we try the air campaign first?
When you sit and write a song, sit and write the best song you can write, just try and write it and be connected.
Try not be resentful or jealous of other people's success. Know that your path as a performer is going to be very different than others. Try your best not to compare.
All she's caught is fleas! She's a medicine cat, not a warrior. She should be helping me, not trying to pretend that her entire history vanished on the day the truth came out.
We have to ask ourselves, 'Am I really trying to discern God's will, or determine whether I want to do it?'
A stirring warmth flowed from her, as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words.
The base of artistic pursuit is ambivalence and complexity. And that's what I try to do.
What you always try to do, as an actor, is find the thing that's universal in the person.
I feel that discussing story-writing in terms of plot, character, and theme is like trying to describe the expression on a face by saying where the eyes, nose, and mouth are.
There is boxing and then there is me. The rest are just falling in line behind me or are trying to get in line to fight me. And that includes Manny Pacquiao too.
I don't think Seurat would have been aware of the dots - he would have been aware of what he was trying to do. The dots were an instrument.
Radicals are only to be feared when you try to suppress them. You must demonstrate that you will use the best of what they offer.
If you hear Bing Crosby trying to swing, it doesn't work. He swings like a rusty gate.
I'm trying to do what Frank O'Hara did and remind myself there there's a lot of good stuff. I write about New York for my own mental health.
If you have spent two years in bed trying to wiggle your big toe, everything else seems easy.
We really need to get it together here. I think we humans are so brilliant and creative, can't we try something else?
I have an inability to relax. I try to make every day a work day. I get pleasure from work... I try to think of sketch ideas, stand-up pieces. I am incapable of leisure and leisure time.
Whenever you take the time to inspire someone, to aid them in their inner search, you'll find energy will come back to you - unless you are ego tripping or you are trying to manipulate them.
In moviemaking, you learn to pay attention to detail, because so much is in the detail. And when you're shooting, you try to be very alert to what's going on, even if you're tired.
What I find trying in a country which you do not understand and where you cannot speak, is that you can never be yourself.
Youth, enthusiasm, and tenderness are like the days of spring. Instead of complaining, O my heart, of their brief duration, try to enjoy them.
At some point all lies are brought to the surface and truth comes forth no matter how hard we try to hide it.
It is not an act of bravery to try to save your own village. It is an instinct to protect what you possess. Bravery is when you step in to help when you have nothing to lose.
If you are trying to sell someone your idea and you can't even define it to yourself, then that is a problem.
In general I try to spend the mornings connecting and keeping things organized, and then try and do more creative work in the afternoons.
Making art, I try to just gently persist, instead of having freak-outs where I'm like, Oh, my god, I'll never draw again. You are going to draw again, so you might as well relax.
It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.
Because I understand all the ways of trying to escape, how sometimes you escape one prison only to find you've built yourself a different one.
Never ride a bike with the brakes on. If something is proving too difficult, give up and do something else. Try to live without resort to perseverance.
Blocking and countering like they do in the films doesn't work, so don't bother trying.
Regarding the fitness craze: America has lost its soul; now it's trying to save its body.