Trying Quotes

There are lots of futurists that spend their whole life trying to figure out who we're going to be in 40, 50, 60, 100 years. That's the great thing about science fiction.

Essentially, wines are fermented grape juice, so I'm trying to make the point that the wine world is about scores and marketing and kind of creating a scarce resource where they don't really exist.

Hillary Clinton, income inequality, it's richest damn woman next to the Kennedy family, and you're trying to tell me she cares about income inequality?

When I meet a fan, I always try to learn something about that fan.

Here is my theory on this one. If you write things down, if there is a mystery and you try and explain it, once you've written it down for permanent, in due time, it'll be proven stupid.

Try saying hello to someone who wouldn't expect you to - today would be good.

After a hard day, try to think of something good about it before you go to sleep - the result may surprise you.

I'm much more character based. I try to just be really committed to what I'm doing.

Whenever I work on something, I try and throw everything I have at it. Then if the director finds it useful they use it, and if not, they ignore it!

Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes.

Novels do take charge of the writer, and the writer is basically a kind of sheepdog just trying to keep things on track.

I do what interests me when I'm invited and do it as well as I know how and try to get better. That's all.

I'm not claiming I'm a saint, but I have a genuine, genuine belief in trying to help others.

Always trying new things is always more fun, and it can be scary, but it's always more fun in the end.

Whoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to try to see things as they are.

You grow up Latin in this country and you're a third class citizen from the word go, and so you have to deal with everything around you from that point of view and trying to feel entitled.

Only by trying on other people's clothes do we find what size we are.

When I write, my brain moves faster than my hands so I'm always trying to picture things.

I look at some of my contemporaries trying to emulate what they were 30 years ago and just because of the age factor alone, they look silly.

Computer programmers tend, by and large, to be quirky and highly individualistic. Trying to organize or manage such awkward characters is normally as thankless as herding cats

Trying to lead an interesting life, a fruitful life, is a big challenge.

Try to develop actual work habits, and even though you have a busy life, try to reserve an hour, say - or more - a day to write. Some very good things have been written on an hour a day.

I will try not to panic, to keep my standard of living modest and to work steadily, even shyly, in the spirit of those medieval carvers who so fondly sculpted the undersides of choir seats.

Knowing makes all the difference... It's the difference between just trying to keep alive, and having something to live for

You can go out and try to do the best work that you can do within the context of what that is, but it's really gotta be about the work and what you're focusing on.

The best way to solve a problem? Try explaining it to somebody outside your field.

I think for most guys, when we grow up we're trying to establish what being a man means to us and so I think it's pretty helpful and beneficial when there's a role model in the house.

I feel I have proved myself just as much as everybody else does. I usually don't think about the past too much. I just try to perform the routines I have been practicing.

When I feel I'm going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.

A lot of movies try to set up a world with cool sets, costumes, camera work. In Brick, the world is born from the words.

If someone tries to tell you you are the greatest generation in the history of America, don't believe them. You aren't. You have the capability to be, but you aren't.

I'm never a failure, unless I quit trying, and neither are you.

Either we will spend our lives trying to take care of ourselves or we will let go and let God take care of us as we put our faith and trust in Him.

Do not let anyone discourage you. If they try: get determined, not depressed.

Tree sitting is a last resort. When you see someone sitting in a tree trying to protect it, you know that every level of our society has failed.

Look beyond the paint. Let us try to open our minds to a new idea.

Writing a song is a personal thing, and you have to have a lot of trust to try things and not be embarrassed.

I try not to divide plot and character. I get to know a character by what they want and fear and how those internal forces play out in their lives.

I think the first sign of friendship is a manifestation of how you separate from your parents and try to find a new family on your own. It's the first sign of growing.

When you're an actress, you become this thing in people's hands that people are trying to manipulate. I cannot stand it.

I also try to read all of my fan mail. A lot of them send me candy, which I'm not allowed to eat 'cause my mom says it might be poisonous.

I'm always interested in very, very futuristic music and bridging the gap between the physicality of organic guitar music and trying to translate that into something electronic is really fascinating.

I'm trying to think about stuff like that: How can a show not be just a whining guy with a guitar.

It is another Justine Henin who will try and go out there and achieve her dream of finally winning Wimbledon.

We're not always in the position that we want to be at. We're constantly growing, we're constantly making mistakes, we're constantly trying to express ourselves and trying to actualize our dreams.

It was really an exciting time trying to find my way from being a boy to becoming a man—being toe to toe and eye to eye with grown men, even though I was only 11 or 12.

Take them off!” I told him, grabbing the front of his jeans. “Take everything off!” “I’m trying!” “Try harder!

Well I'm trying to think what I put in... I think I put in 'why?' to see if I'd confuse the computer.

We all live in fear of getting blocked no matter what kind of art we're trying to do. It happens all the time, but I prefer to think of it as a bad day.

I try and be as normal as I can, but it's all pretty mental to be honest.