Trying Quotes

Authenticity is critical to leadership. That means trying to be yourself - this involves some self-disclosure, admitting what you don't know and being willing to ask questions.

I try very hard to be fair, and I look for ironies. In a way, I live on ironies as a novelist.

The most effective executive branch officials try to help legislators develop explanations for the votes they are being asked to take.

Failure is not having the courage to try, nothing more and nothing less.

There is but one failure in life and that is the failure to try.

As writers, we're always trying to connect with the audience on a visceral level. We usually do that through drama, through emotion or through humor.

If an artist is one who spends his life trying to define his being, I guess I would have to call myself an artist.

(Guy) Pearce, as the hero, makes the mistake of trying to give a good and realistic performance. (Jeremy) Irons at least knows what kind of movie he's in, and hams it up accordingly.

Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.

A long time ago, I stopped trying to look at projects as genre exercises.

The torch of liberty is hot; warms those who hold it high; burns those who try to extinguish it.

I try not to get caught up on how cool I am. That way nothing ever gets done. I'm always thinking about what I haven't done.

I've never really considered myself as being the best bodybuilder. I always try to let the people decide that. I just try to do the best I can do at whatever it is that I'm doing.

Back in those days, all us skinny white British kids were trying to look cool and sound black. And there was Hendrix, the ultimate in black cool. Everything he did was natural and perfect.

All I was trying to do was get home from work.

I don't believe in failure. I believe every setback is an opportunity to learn, regroup, get stronger, and try again.

I'm always studying something or trying to learn something, keep myself creatively occupied, because I think that energy can get kind of destructive if it doesn't have somewhere to go.

When you try to do one step forward to attain knowledge about the hidden truths, then do the same time three steps forward to perfect your character.

What is polarizing in America is the Democrat Party agenda. What is polarizing and divisive is the Democrat Party agenda and the things they have been trying to do.

When I ask questions I'm genuinely curious and trying to learn.

You cannot depend on a sandbag dike to save your life. You put it up to try to save your property.

I try to do something physical every day. I don't go heavy every day, though.

Being a quarterback, the way I believe is there's always so much room to improve. Any little detail. I always cut up the film and try to watch what I can improve on, whatever little detail it is.

I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel sorry for my psychopaths, because I do.

It's misogynistic in nature to try and control a woman's sexual presentation of self. I consider this an issue that is bigger than (one) film.

I try not to read the negative comments, and when I do, I let it roll off my back. I remind myself that there will always be haters as long as you are in the public eye.

If you're to the point where you're trying to overcome that means you're at the point where you've admitted that you have a problem, and that might be your strongest point in the addiction.

I'll try and get through as much as my voice and nerves and knees will let me.

Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, it's not the same - it's not even close to the same.

I try to figure my adjusted gross income, but no matter how I figure it, it's still gross.

I try to steer away from high metaphysical belief because I think we humans do best when we realize that we don't know all that much.

I'm used to getting reviews. I try not to read much because you'll always focus on the bad ones and not remember the good ones, so it can be a negative thing for a performer.

I don't think there's anything to be desired in a bunch of people chasing you around, trying to get a piece of your clothing.

My whole life I try to make into a comedy, so it would be nice to see that onscreen.

I lost myself trying to find happiness in things that didn't love me back.

I truly believe that regret is the only wound the soul does not recover from, and so I'm trying to live without regrets. ... Each day is another chance to be swept away.

In the big picture, life has a gap in it. It just does. You don't go crazy trying to fill it.

One of the things Mr. Kennedy taught me was that in laying out a new project, you shouldn't try to cope with every little problem.

The soul has to find and hold its ground against hostile forces, sometimes embodied in ideas which frequently deny its very existence, and which indeed often seem to be trying to annul it altogether.

I try to avoid giving advice.

Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at least try to grow your own brain.

I'm always like 'I'm too skinny, I can't gain weight, even when I try.' I'd like to try to not let that get to me.

I didn't fill it up with movies every time because I was trying to just film one damn movie, but that's the heartache of independent films.

I'm reading and trying to find a television show that I really like, so I can start really working again and gain some momentum.

I'm not trying to kill you, I only want to make you stronger

I try to eat healthy and be balanced.

Now that I've established myself in a drama, I'm plugging away, trying to get the attention of people who do the independent movies and the features.

I remember writing a paper on human evolution in 1944, and I simply left Piltdown out. You could make sense of human evolution if you didn't try to put Piltdown into it.

She was trying to get rid of a religious hangover.

The hardest situation to stay happy in, I think, is when you're trying to find love, and yourself at the same time. It just doesn't seem to fit well.