Trying Quotes
I want to be sure that if people are coming to a show and paying $100 that I want to give them their money's worth. I try to give 100 percent.
At 22, there’s a lot of trying to figure out love, which at the end of the day, I’ve realized I’ll never figure out, though the process of trying is fun.
When parents watch scientist after scientist describe the dangers of GM foods, I wouldn't want to be a stubborn food service director trying to stand in their way.
I have an interest in architecture, although more theoretically than anything else. I think architecture tries to understand what the body wants to occupy, not the body itself.
Authoritarian governments are now trying to ensure that the increasingly free flow of ideas and information through cyberspace fuels their economies without threatening their political power.
Once you figure out what your own thing is it's all about trying to develop shows, programs that can, I guess, enhance what you already have and what you can add to Hollywood.
Federer said something interesting once. He said that he was watching Rod Laver, and me, and he said he was trying to copy us and to be like us. And that’s a great compliment for us.
I think we, sometimes, try to fill a void with so many other things that we make the wound deeper & prevent it from ever healing properly.
Well, I'm still experimenting, trying to figure out my style. I'm trying lots of things from many designers including Christian Siriano.
I always try to choose material that I would want to go and see. I don't choose movies anymore to be in that other people wouldn't want to see.
The idea of a teenage Dumbledore was simply odd, like trying to imagine a stupid Hermione or a friendly Blast-Ended Skrewt.
The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm learning to not want to be someone else, to just be who I am, as is, with nothing extra added on.
Knowing that pain and conflict is just change trying to happen, that there is something beautiful on the other side, that it is just a cycle is helpful. Humor is always essential.
If you think too far ahead, if you even try to think too far ahead, you'll never make it.
If too many things have to happen in order to bring about the situation you want, then back out of it and try again later.
I went through about 40 different hats until we found one that fit. It had to fit me and fit the character, more importantly, and whatever that thing was that we were trying to create with him.
We have to change our culture so you can create wealth from making things and don't just try to make money out of money
I'm trying to be less bombastic. I love my books. I think I've done things nobody else has done.
I'm trying to influence the next generation or two generations or three generations behind me. That's a big ambition of mine.
Sometimes kids just act impulsively, but it's because we have strong feelings, not because we're trying to make trouble.
There is no corporation in the world that would, in a competitive environment, try and concentrate all decisions at the corporate level.
The last thing I think I am is perfect. I'm just trying to do the best job I can. I'm trying to be the best father I can to my kids. I'm trying to do the best job I can running my business.
Fair isn't fair, Dean. Like I'm supposed to help you because fair is fair? Try I need you to help me so I wont rip out your spine and beat you with it. I might respond to that, maybe.
I think all art - if it's good - is a result of really trying to create something that you can't put into words. Where language ends is where good art begins.
In documentary films, being able to be a storytelling and embrace film as an art form - while being very clearly connected in trying to help make the world a better place - is really important to me.
When I am trying to write I turn on music so I can hear what is keeping me from hearing.
I'd be worried if I was put in the same category as Michael Bubl I'm trying to sound like a young man, for starters.
Other times I say: I would very much like to try to do something with this music, but after playing for a few minutes, I have to break off.
Actually, the first thing I do is choose the antique that will be featured in each book. I try to find unusual objects with great stories. I am fascinated by the stories.
The bottom line is we are trying to do what's right. We don't just say we believe in God - we have active relationships with God.
I always set out to just work, as an actor, and try to do as many different things as I possibly could, and not be too selective or too careful. I think just working is fun.
I am always playing hard trying to win. Just knowing that at one time I was once that kid that looked up to NBA players and NFL players. Today these kids look up me.
When I started in fashion, I had already adopted the sailor-striped sweater as my uniform; that way, I wouldn't have to drive myself crazy trying to figure out what to wear.
There's a way of filming where you can get rid of the vanity and of trying to make something beautiful.
I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.
You have to try to push yourself to the limit. You can't worry about making a mistake. If you worry about it, you'll lose.
You prep, you prep, you prep. And on the day that you film, you let all of that go. I try to achieve emptiness as much as possible - the Zen thing - to let the deal come out of that nothing.
For one, I think as a missionary you gotta be stubborn. And you gotta try to be persuasive.
I wont stop fighting to make life better for working Americans and give those who are just trying to find a decent job the opportunity to do so.
I'm constantly reading and trying to enlighten myself to how the world works in its silent ways to make everything seem normal when it's actually incredibly discriminating.
