Trying Quotes

I've been practicing for years, trying to figure out how to record an entire band live.

I try not to do email; I try to talk to people on the phone.

I would love to do an electronic record. There's just so much to see and do and try. And life goes by.

The difference between trying and doing is one leads to success, while the other leads to excuses.

My style icon has always been my mom. I feel like she was always sophisticated and effortless and looked really well put together without trying too hard.

All the photographers were trying to just get me off, which was hilarious. But it was very, very amusing.

You know, your species [humans] has the most amazing capacity for self-deception, matched only by its ingenuity in trying to destroy itself.

If we try to define our own moral universe, there's a price for that.

(I) try new things and give myself permission to fail and experiment because only that way can you get really successful.

I try to cast really good actors and give them a chance to do their very best work, give them as much time and space as they need.

I like to shoot until we have a relaxed environment on the set, and I try to schedule that.

Every effort needs to be made to try and offset the costs of Katrina and Rita by reductions in other government programs, especially those that are wasteful, duplicative and ineffective.

One might as well try to perform brain surgery with a sledgehammer.

I realized I was never going to have any peace with myself unless I made an honest stab at trying to write.

We never sit down before we start making a record and talk about this new sonic palette that we are going to try to explore. We always let the record kind of reveal itself to us over time.

People who try to define their spirituality sometimes are annoying, 'cause the spirit is something you feel and let guide you and humbly respect.

I want to try to not be the child that had to go through too much too young. I want to be who I am now and not who I was then.

Try it first And you'll see its a blessing And it's not a curse

I'm trying to be somebody on whom the experience is lost by supplanting it with its telling. I definitely do that in medical contexts, even in trivial ones.

We're trying to do something so that when the average person uses Pinterest, it has to make the service better.

Yes, Americans can still get credit for cars and trucks and refrigerators, and those businesses are doing well. But just try to get a home loan now.

If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.

Trying to pick individual stocks is a trap. I can't do it. Warren Buffett can, but hardly anyone else can beat the indexes over a long period of time.

The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.

I genuinely try to make movies I'd want to go and see, movies that are a bit more challenging.

Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that is what I'm trying to do.

I realised quite early on that, although I wasn't trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals.

If you can't jump on board when the ride's going past that's it, it usually goes by, so the hugest compliment they paid me was to come back to me. It motivated me to try to fulfill their faith.

It'd be really nice to wake up looking like, I don't know, Jake Gyllenhaal and think "Let's try this on for a day and see how it feels.

Being on set is quite difficult, because it's so big and you've got to try and relax, which isn't easy when you know you're in a massive film. I was terrified for quite a long time.

At the Cardiff World Cup I really would like to make the final. The favorites are still Peter, Daniele or Vavra, but I will try to do my best in order to be closest as possible to these athletes.

You have to try, you have to try everything you can.

I consider myself a logical person and, you know, a lot of people try to categorize me in one way or another.

If you would know the value of money; go, and try to borrow some! For, he that goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing! and indeed, so does he that lends to such people, when he goes to get it in again!

We will take whatever action is necessary to protect our people, including against the terror tunnels that they are trying to dig against us.

My level of intervention in the press, trying to control stories, is zero. Subzero.

Maybe I'm naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street.

Comey really spent an enormous amount of energy in the period in which both he and Trump were in office trying to protect the FBI from political interference from the White House.

The whole time you're bouncing ideas off each other, you continue to try and push the songs as far as you can take them and make them the best that they can be.

I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song.

We started with Denny Cordell, and he was a great record producer. He knew exactly how to take a band that knew absolutely nothing, and guide you without trying to tell you what to do.

Being a man is bullshit; maybe trying to be a man had been the problem all along. At a certain point you just have to trust someone. Even if it’s only yourself.

Of course, when you work on a character, you try to understand her. You feel that everything she does has a reason.

You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.

Most people come out of their Ph.D. experience trying to prove themselves, trying to get ahead, trying to get published. You're scared everybody else is going to do your research and get your topic.

It's not as easy as that... it's disappointing to think that all these countries spend a lot of money trying to get the Olympics.

The issue is to trying to figure out why we end up spending so much more than other countries.

There's issue of a corrupt campaign finance system, where big money interests and Wall Street are trying to buy elections.Those are the issues that are resonating.

Analytic It is clear that the definition of "logic" or "mathematics" must be sought by trying to give a new definition of the old notion of "analytic" propositions.

Growing up as a chubby kid with a ton of imaginary friends and a Cyndi Lauper obsession, I learned about rejection early on and was constantly trying to avoid it.