Trying Quotes

I just try to play as hard as I can every possession. If you're aware and you're high-energy, the ball will eventually bounce your way and you'll be able to make plays.

I try not to respond with a pep talk, such as, "Everyone has talent, just try, you'll see." I skirt those kinds of answers.

Hey, this is it—right now!—the time when you find out who you are and what you can do. And how will you ever know if you don't try new stuff?

It’s been the structure of my life: you scheme and plan and try and fail and try again and accumulate and lose and win back, and then you tell.

I love being around great actors and film-makers, and I try to hide the fact that I'm in awe of them.

I am trying to work out what my taste is, comedy-wise. I look up to stand up comedians who appear to be telling the truth, but I don't mind if they are lying.

I started out performing as a little boy, I was trying to make my mother feel better and laugh because she was sick and in pain all the time. I found out that I had that power to relieve her.

If camping is so great, why are the bugs always trying to get in your house?

When you are trying to understand the world, it is unwise to assume that you occupy a privileged position in it.

When I'm trying to imagine something, I have a few elements, a few ideas, maybe a certain actor or actress I want to create a certain type of character for, or maybe a certain place.

Try this: say the words "global, global, global" aloud several times, as fast as you can. You'll find yourself sounding like a turkey ("gobble, gobble, gobble").

So you want to be married, oh baby, trying to put me on a chain, ain't that some shame? You must be losing your weak little mind.

I couldn't make sense of things. But then I began the process of civilising myself and trying to become a decent human being. I'm still working on it.

No, I'm not the prototypical leadoff man. I'm not the prototypical anything. I just try to be the prototypical Jimmy Rollins.

Love does not solely belong to one person. No matter how hard you try, if the feeling is not mutual, it'll be fruitless.

There is always new life trying to emerge in each of us. Too often we ignore the signs of resurrection and cling to part of life that have died for us.

The better your base is, and the more you know from experience, the better off you'll be when you try and make the big move.

I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African.

Although the term dialogue was really a euphemism for scientists trying to kill each other, this format worked very well.

I'm trying to broaden my range and get different characters in each film.

I try to be like a sponge when I'm around other actors, picking things up about the way they work and how they do things.

You never know you are in a prison unless you try the door

I'm never going to let nobody take those kids. They Michael's kids. They have no right to try to take those kids. It's going to be a big mess over that.

And it's exactly what's wrong with the radio. It's like...anything that tries to appeal to everybody always ends up sounding so cheap.

If you take your last album & try to copy it, then thats sure to hell the way to stagnation. And that makes me bored...and if I'm bored then the music is boring and so are the band!

I'm trying to take pictures of less and less.

I try not to dwell on the past. I'm not a big go-back-and-try-to-relive-your-past kinda person.

I try to move people emotionally.

I don't play just one-two-three-four. I try to play melodies.

I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was my great good fortune to be popular.

There's just not a lot of guys around playing like that these days; a lot of steel players are plugging into stomp boxes, trying to sound like Jeff Beck on a steel guitar.

The only riots were the people trying to get tickets.

Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.

Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.

People are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving of it, or both; yet we try to sound superior to the unseemly by pretending to be amused by it or indifferent to it.

Trying to solve the problem by creating more debt is analogous to trying to stop being an alcoholic by going on a bender down at the corner bar.

Try all things, hold fast that which is good.

I know people look at me and try to make conclusions about me immediately, based on the obvious, let's say.

Trying to impress my mother with words was one of my favourite pursuits.

For me, rhythm is a type of divine mathematics in a way. No matter where you're from, we can all understand the mathematics of rhythm. I try to apply this mathematical thinking to my playing.

It is unbiblical and arrogant to try to worship God for any other reason than the pleasure to be had in Him.

I'm just the kind of person who seems designed, probably by nature, to try to make a difference.

Yes, you're very very old But try to think of it as not being cursed After all, in a hostage situation You'd be released first!

I think you have to be what you are. Don't try to be somebody else. You have to be yourself at all times.

Don't you dare besmirch the name of Congress. They are patriotic Americans trying to dress and feed themselves.

I have great respect for people who are in the front lines and the trenches of trying to enact social change. I am far lazier than that.

I find you write with one person in mind. Usually for me that one person is my wife, because she's my most severe critic and understands best what I'm trying to do.

Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great. Competent design is not too much of a stretch. But if you are trying to do something new, you have challenges on so many axes.

Ironically, the utterly unselective omnivore -- "I'm easy; I'll eat anything" -- can appear more socially sensitive than the individual who tries to eat in a way that is good for society.

You're trying to bring a character to an audience, and tell stories. That's what we're all trying do.