Trying Quotes

...Mama used to say that when you don't know what to do, do nothing. She meant you can try too hard to solve a problem. If you give it a little time, the answer might just come to you plain as day.

You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying. -An-mei

I try to walk at least three times a week for 40 minutes or an hour. I do it at the gym on the treadmill, or I go hiking outside.

I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.

I think that I'm always trying to get beyond the surface appearance of things, to go beyond what I can just see.

It's hard because you want to be able to just, okay, focus your energy on trying to win the match, but you need to then have tactics as to how you're going to deal with how you're feeling.

I spent my first 50 years trying to become known as a writer and the next 30 trying to avoid being famous. I walk down the street or go to a football game and people shout, 'Hey Andy'. I hate that.

I don't always feel lucky, but I'm smart enough to try.

If you have to go back through your day in your head, try to go back to only the good things. Look at those, and what you did well. Otherwise, life kind of passes you by.

If you want to do something, try it! The worst anyone you ask for help can do is say no.

I am your dwarf. I am the enemy within. I am the boss of your dreams. See. Your hand shakes. It is not palsy or booze. It is your Doppelganger trying to get out. Beware...Beware...

I can't stand directors who try to micro-manage everything. When it happens these days I just walk off set, saying if they don't like the way I'm doing it they can get someone else.

The platform underneath the balloon fell on her as she was trying to escape," she explained. "She was crushed." "I'd have been disappointed too.

I love academics, theory and all that. I love and admire that and try to do as much reading as I can.

One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.

I think my motto is to always remain focused on what it is that youre trying to accomplish.

Do what you know is right, but try not to get caught.

You live in the city and all the time there are signs telling you what to do and billboards trying to sell you something.

Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes.

I try to photograph what can't be photographed - psychological or subjective reality, which seems more real than physical or consensual reality.

I try to tell a story musically in a song.

My brother and I are always trying to figure out a way to work again together.

I wrinkled my nose, trying to figure out what he smelled like. Not cigarettes. Something richer, fouler. Cigars.

Really, off days for soccer players are just recovery days. You're trying to get off your feet as much as possible.

I agree today that a man has no business trying to tell women what their characteristics are, which ones are inborn, which are more admirable, which will be best utilized by what occupations.

I don't ever watch myself. By watching, you try to perfect yourself, become a robot.

In America, we have struggled too much, too long as a country trying to overcome racism and sexism and homophobia. We cannot go back to a more discriminatory society.

Indeed, the great paradox of the writer's life is how much time he spends alone trying to connect with other people.

I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That's how I've gotten to where I am.

I wasn't the good looking guy, I wasn't the hot chick, I wasn't the fat guy, I didn't have a catchphrase, I didn't wear a silly hat. I was just trying to improve as a comedian.

I'm trying to get away from trashing women, to be honest. I think I've done enough of that in my career.

This is great if you know all those "not to do" strategies. Sometimes you learn the "not to do's" by doing. The key is to fail forward fast. Try, fail, learn, and quickly try again.

When you program, you want to think you're writing the best possible program for the... for the task you're trying to solve.

With Windows 8, Microsoft is trying to gain market share in what has been dominated by the iPad-type device. But a lot of those users are frustrated. They can't type. They can't create documents.

We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them.

You want to spend your millions on a worthless cause? Try donating it to the Democrats.

Between trying to impeach Bill Clinton, Florida 2000, and the recall in California, I'm beginning to think that Republicans will do anything to win an election-except get the most votes.

I have a feeling that we have been placed on this earth for a special reason and although I have not fulfilled all my missions, I am trying.

A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to widdle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious.

If you don't know how to meditate at least try to spend some time every day just sitting.

I have a hard time thinking of men trying to sing my songs, because I think my perspective is definitely feminine.

I had something nobody else could do - I sang in a way that separated me - and, when you're trying to get noticed, you play your trump card.

I was always chasing Taylor, trying to keep up with him.

The high point of the act is when he (Uri Durov) puts his head inside the bear's huge jaws. I wouldn't even try that with my agent.

I steal props from SNL a great deal. Almost every sketch Im in, I try to grab something from it, so I have a storage space full of props.

People that could yodel always fascinated me. People that could sing loud always fascinated me. So I started trying to mimic at a really young age: 6, 7 years old.

We were like deaf people trying to dance to a beat we couldn't hear, long after the music actually stopped.

Try to discover your true, honest, untheoretical self.

If you are writing comedy and try to please everybody, you'll please nobody.

I never go up there trying to hit a home run