Trying Quotes

If we're free from the burden of trying to be completely original, we can stop trying to make something out of nothing, and we can embrace influence instead of running from it.

As I was growing up, people were always trying to talk about their sexual conquests, trying to make themselves appear like a cassanova. I'm surprised you haven't heard that, I really am.

I followed Taylor everywhere. I was always trying to catch up after him or go with him.

What'll you do if you can't find a way to cure him?" Seth asked. Dale paused. "I'll never know that day has come, because I'll never stop trying.

I think dressing nowadays went from trying to fit in to wearing something to try to stick out.

Just keep trying things, without really understanding the underlying fibers of well-being, or peace or civility, then you're just going to stumble from one disaster to another.

I've spent so much of my youth trying to change people or change girls and then having it done to me and people wanting me to change.

So consumed in all your doom, trying hard to fill the emptiness.

I'm open to trying new things. That's why I think Birchbox is so awesome! It's something to look forward to and introduces me to something maybe I wouldn't have picked out, but fall in love with.

Who is the best the sportswriter who wore shorts? I keep trying to envision Grantland Rice or John Lardner in shorts. It never occurred to me to wear shorts. I'd look too silly to wear shorts.

We need to never consider ourselves as having 'arrived'; always trying to learn how we can change to be more like Christ

Be talented enough to make it and stupid enough to keep trying.

The more educated you get, the better shot you have to get it right, but if you're really trying something different, it's a challenge every time.

Mitt Romney was a guest on 'The Tonight Show' on NBC. It's interesting — you have an empty suit trying to please everyone, and then Romney comes out.

You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that's left for you or to make one of your own.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves.

I'd spent so long trying to fit in,trying to be someone i wasn't,that i had no idea who i was any more.

I just try to get people to laugh - I'm not trying to change the world or anything.

The power of now can only be realized now. It requires no time and effort. Effort means you're trying hard to get somewhere, and so you are not present, welcoming this moment as it is.

I'm always trying to make the music sexier with every album, every tour. I just try to inch my way toward just a little sexier. I know it's tough for me.

I'm not trying to change the face of hip-hop music. I'm trying to make my records and always take the next step for me.

I just don't like showing everything I've got. I don't want to look like I'm trying too hard to be sexy.

It's interesting to watch myself with an audience; I'm trying hard to learn from it.

It was like we were all so busy trying to be happy or saying we were happy, but underneath there was nothing but bitterness, the kind that could only be bled out in ink, in unspoken word.

The things that I've seen where people are trying to change the definition of what a band has to be, those are the things that end up being inspiring.

If you run a website that doesn't have something that's terrible on it, you are not trying hard enough. You have to fail, fail, fail. You have to fail and fail miserably many times.

The goal is not necessarily to succeed but to keep trying, to be the kind of person who has ideas and see them through.

Stop trying to fix your body. It was never broken.

Truth is the hardest substance in the world to pin down. But the one certainty is the awesome penalty exacted sooner or later from a society whose reporters stop trying.

I'm always trying to make movies. It's what I love to do more than anything. I love to write and direct.

Stop trying to figure it all. Why worry about it all so much? Why not just live? And then you die. And then you live again, unless, of course, you follow me.

Stop trying to be different. Just do what you are good at, and work really hard. You have to work hard to be chaos.

Whenever you bring up women's internal workings, guys want to change the subject. Unless, of course, they're trying to change the laws.

I wrote six pilots, none of which ever got picked up. When you stop trying, it then it falls in your lap.

It's impossible to compete with the dead. I wished I could stop trying.

Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea.

It is difficult finding intelligence that is actionable in a lot of these places, but we have to keep trying.

All I know is that I've made some big screw-ups, and I've done some things that have done all right. I just keep trying to learn from the mistakes I've made.

I keep trying to define poetry, but its so difficult.

I have never learned to draw a hand well enough, so why should I stop trying now?

When I try to speak perfectly then I am not Jackie Chan anymore. Some words sound like I am trying too hard. The whole thing is not me.

I write down portions, maybe fragments, and perhaps an imperfect view of what Im hoping to write. Out of that, I keep trying to find exactly what I want.

Now that we know you're not a hundred percent vampire you should stop trying to suck necks," I said to Ziggy. "I'll try," Ziggy said, "but it's a hard habit to break.

Why do these crazy vampires keep trying to collect me?

Of course he wouldn't hesitate before trying something that had never been done before. He was Vlad Tepesh. How could he fail?

No one has failed who keeps trying and keeps praying.

If you haven't failed, you're not trying hard enough.

You can feel yourself trying too hard, doing too much. Nobody wants to watch somebody when they're needy, and actors are in the unfortunate position of needing to be cast and needing to be liked.

I am always trying to write.

Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope of learning.