Trying Quotes

You have to be a really talented writer if you're trying to encapsulate a news story with a song and have it live after the event. I don't have the focus to do that, really.

I was a psychology major. I think that definitely helps in general life; I enjoy trying to figure out why people are the way they are.

I try never to get too high when things are going well. I try never to get too low when things are going poorly. I try to keep an even keel.

The Iranians may simply try to run out the clock.

That may prevent us from getting a deal done, It is there to be had. Whether ultimately Iran can seize that opportunity - we will have to wait and see, but it is not for lack of trying on our part.

When what you’re doing doesn’t work for 50 years, it’s time to try something new.

If you look at how I've tried to and how I'll continue to try to govern, I'm not driven by some ideological agenda. I'm a pretty practical guy and I just want to make sure that things work.

If we're trying to protect the American public, we should not put in place a travel ban.

When I was in Washington, I would usually get home from the Capitol at about 7:30 or 8, and I would try to write as much as possible. It was almost all in the wee hours.

It is legitimate for the Turks to try to defend themselves.

With the world's unprecedented inspections and access to Iran's program, we'll know if Iran ever tries to break out.

I remember having meetings with Republican senators who initially had been trying to engage [Obamacare] but saw that the politics of 'no' were growing inside the Republican Party.

Try to be as honest as possible.

I'm about to embark on what may be as important as an initiative as anything I do as President, trying to nudge the world in the direction of doing something serious about climate change.

To try to blackmail a president into giving them some concessions on issues that have nothing to do with the budget.

I think the average American, if they go to the workplace, somebody's next to 'em, they're not poking around trying to figure out what their religious beliefs are.

Rather, my perceptions about how we solve problems in health care or education span across a whole range of areas. And I want to try to capture that complexity.

So many of my staff is young enough that they're going to do amazing things. And I'm going to be helping them try to do them.

We shouldn't assume that government is always trying to do the wrong thing.

We can be civil to each other, and we can try to express ourselves acknowledging that we're all patriots, we're all Americans, and not assume the absolute worst in people's motives.

My guiding principle as president has been to try to do the right thing even when it's not politically convenient.

I try to make it a rule not to meddle in other people's politics.

I think it's very hard for a woman to be treated as a person and not just as a woman who tries to become a politician.

You always face a bunch of hands trying to stop you from working.

Mostly I try to be the best example of me that I can be.

If America was trying to keep the bubonic plague out of its hemisphere, Canadians would import it just to show their independence of American foreign policy.

You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.

The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.

You want to make a representative selection, but at the same time, you want to give a sense of the whole project. I have this big conflict in my writing life that I'm trying to work out all the time.

To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.

Never say "NO" to yourself, just try. You will never know what could happen.

Every time, I try to make something different.

[Democrats] are trying on every front to increase the role of government.

I've been thinking of trying to de-caricaturize Donald Trump. I thought it would be fun to try and, since he's already a caricature, to make him normal looking.

All my drawings always sort of looked funny even if I was trying to do serious stuff and express myself about grim situations. It was always cartoony.

I never stop looking for things to try and make myself better.

No one really has the power, and everybody's trying to get through the day, and everybody's nervous and desperate.

When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.

Atrial fibrillation has been the low man on the totem pole and so were just trying to get more visibility about this particular disease and how dangerous this could be.

So he was opening night... I was out of a job, and I'd been to every producer in Hollywood trying to get a job singing. But nobody wanted to know me.

I need to have perspective. That's one of the big things former players told me, to not try to live up to anything, just live up to yourself.

I'm not trying to be cocky, but I set such a high standard for myself. I'm not happy when I pitch seven innings and give up two runs and get a win.

I try to communicate in a way that allows people in on what's going on. What's better than references to popular culture?

All too often we fail to ask what we are trying to sustain. Ultimately, sustainability must be measured by the endurance of thriving human communities.

The only difference between 'try' and 'triumph' is varying degrees of 'umph'

All worthwhile journeys have big obstacles. It's the way of the world. The rewards go to those who can push through those trying moments and still manage to keep a smile on their face.

Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.

I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.

Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.

With my own music, I try to get away from things that are familiar and things that would be easy for me to go to.