Trying Quotes

My problem is trying to find the desire to fight and be on the court ready to fight. For a few weeks, I haven't felt like I wanted to be on the court. That's the problem.

When I run into disappointment - say, for example, not getting a role I'd hoped for - I just try not to take it personally.

Literally, I just love food and I like going to dinner with big groups of people so you can try everything.

I think everybody on this planet does that - trying to capture your dream after you wake up.

I never struggled with trying to figure out what it was I wanted to do or what made the sparks go for me.

Beware of those who try to sell you simple answers to complex questions.

Try to stick to free weights as much as possible as they work the stabilizers as well as the main muscles being targeted!

I just keep my game plan the same and try to just go out there and be efficient and attack the strike zone.

I feel good. At this point, the only thing I'm trying to do is accumulate at-bats and get my work in, and so far that's what I'm doing.

One of the reasons that any person writes anything is to try and keep his own sanity together.

All I need to do is try and do the best that I can do.

Try is the opposite of hiding.

I just play because I love playing and I try and take as many wickets as I can.

Somebody out there was trying to use my language and trying to speak for me. Rather than have that happen, I thought I'd do it myself. It's a fun thing. It's a way for fans to connect.

I've really learned not to try to take responsibility for all things. And to keep my side of the street clean.

When you get up, the night and day is a contradiction. But you get up at 4 a.m. — that first blush of blue is where the night and day are trying to find harmony with each other.

I really just try to focus every day on delivering the most honest portrayal I can and let everything else take care of itself.

I needed to find out what my goals were and what my mission was. After some quiet time and just seeking the Lord, He brought some people to the table that understood where I was trying to go.

So when you try hard to make your own way, you will help others...before you make your own way you cannot help anyone, and no one can help you.

People get a lot of confusion, because they keep trying to think of quantum mechanics as classical mechanics.

So much of starting a business or affecting change is the confidence and courage to simply try.

Quality effective leaders have the confidence to trust others to try, succeed, and sometimes to fail.

A lot of times with my more up-tempo music, I try to take the approach of a hip-hop artist, but when it comes to imaging, I've been following the pattern of Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Madonna.

But if I was still trying to be in Guns N' Roses while I wasn't in the band... I wouldn't want to maintain an image like that.

I try to always be open to what the actors want to try. I don't storyboard and try to be intuitive and open on the day of filming.

I always remember my dad saying, "No one makes a remake unless they are trying to make money; there is no reason for it." It was not an honorable thing to do.

I just don't want to give them my name and say, 'Do whatever you want.' I am trying to create my brand.

I'm always so raw and unguarded. I'm always open to everything and everyone - or at least try - so I can be vulnerable and touched by everything at all times, which in turn is really inspiring.

I want to try new creative things and find refreshing stories. That's how I've come to choose the roles that I've done.

Much energy is wasted in trying to charm others. And in wanting to charm - I tell you, the opposite happens

All you can do is make something that you like and feel proud of and then just hope for the best and try to get out of its way.

I think so many times we feel like we're lacking something in our lives and we try to fill it with the wrong things. Sometimes it's drugs, sometimes it's a relationship you shouldn't be in.

To me, strategy means trying to overcome your limitations and your weak points. To do that, I try to enhance and leverage my strong points.

Among giants, try and be a dwarf; among dwarfs, try and be a giant; but among equals, try and be an equal

You can't imagine hip-hop without the Black Panthers. Today, hopefully, the movement can be an inspiration to people. These were people who made mistakes but they were trying to change things.

It's really nice to go down to an extremely low-budget movie, but that is very daring and courageous and try something different, where the roles usually are more complicated.

We should all try to embrace our own quirkiness.

Airplanes are like women - pick what you like and try to get it away from the guy who has it, then dress it out to the limit of your wallet and taste.

He vaguely desired to walk around and around the body and stare; the impulse of the living to try to read in dead eyes the answer to the Question.

If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song.

After about a year or so, I was in L.A.; I'd decided to try to get a band together out there

Try not to trip," she added. "We don't have time for a concussion today." I groaned. That would be just like me - ruin everything, destroy the world, in a moment of klutziness.

Do you think I’ll ever get better at this? That my heart might someday stop trying to jump out of my chest whenever you touch me?

I enjoyed high school and college, and I think I learned a lot, but that was not really my focus. My focus was on trying to figure out what businesses to start

I can tell you this: I'm an extremely passionate individual. I try to be careful how I display it because you never know how people are going to take it.

If you try to make such projects, unseen by others, as perfect as any human could, you'll develop skills that other professionals don't have.

Look at almost any passage, and you'll find that a paragraph has five or six metaphors in it. It's not that the speaker is trying to be poetic, it's just that that's the way language works.

I used to be weird about it, but I think sometimes you can learn from watching yourself and all the mistakes you make and try to continue growing. But I'm completely uncomfortable for sure.

'E.T.' began with me trying to write a story about my parents' divorce.

So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because everybody has style. You can't help it.