Trying Quotes

Sometimes I enjoy talking, but when it's like people are trying to find something out about me, I don't.

I will not fail,' the water bearer's daughter vowed. 'But worse than failing is not to try at all. For then there can be no hope of success.

I think about what I'm eating every day. I still have burgers and stuff that's not good for me sometimes, but I'm always trying to be careful. I don't just eat whatever I want.

I'm working on new techniques. I'm trying to find a way to make fresco that can be detached from a wall, and I'm trying to find new people who can help me work on a very large scale in bronze.

It wasn't about me trying to lose weight. It was all about emotions.

I'm not trying to be a spokeswoman for the transgender community; I just want to be looked at as a living, breathing, happy human being.

I'm a risk taker, so I have come to accept that at times I will fail. To me, that is better than not trying at all.

I'm going to try to not put a lot of pressure on myself.

I've got no interest in going over to California to fight that boring git, in a fight that no one's interested in, and that's the reason why he's trying to pimp himself out everywhere.

When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek at something else.

Try to cut down drastically on plastic. Recycle. Use less energy and more renewable energy. We can all live better by doing better for ourselves and the sea!

I would be very ashamed of my civilization if we did not try to find out if there is life in outer space.

All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write.

(President Nixon,) in the face of a vote to impeach he might try, as "commander-in-chief", to use military forces to keep himself in power.

As a creative person, you need to sort of spread your wings and try different things out because each one really does inform the other.

I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.

I was trying to do something that seemed very natural and easy but which bridged that gulf between the singing voice and the speaking voice.

Now that I feel 100 percent, I'm looking forward to playing my game the way I want to-getting on base, stealing bases and trying to help the team any way I can.

Whenever we play a really good game, everybody's going to be a hero, and the good part about it is nobody's trying to be a hero.

I'll try to do anything to win a game.

As hard as you try to write a good script and you have great intentions, this alchemy has to occur.

Any work that's worth doing has its challenges as well as its opportunities. That's true if you're running a business, it's true if you're trying to help on a campaign.

I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.

You know, Italian-Hungarian - no matter how linear and cool I look on the outside, I have all that energy trying to find its way through life.

I just learn from other people. And I try to get strengths from other people and the things they do, the things they can overcome in their lives.

I'm a working mother... You try to pay the bills, you try to keep your life going and there's pressure.

I'm trying to teach my daughter about healthy eating.

I am wandering inside, wandering through my past, trying to see if there is a place there strong enough to hold me.

I decided I wanted to do something that was worthwhile and thought I would try architecture. There was not an architect in my family.

I'm not disappointed (at not leading), I'm just trying my best.

It's been crazy trying to tour with a baby. But it's actually working out okay.

I think everything has to come from something that you feel comfortable with and want to be in and sometimes we try to negotiate that limit, but it's not always easy to find the right balance.

You hear stories like that of Canadians trying to get in, but when you go back home, you don't expect that.

Do not be precious about your music within your own world. Try everything you want to try; just because it exists doesn't mean it's done.

I was essentially paid to perpetuate the myth that we are all, or should at least try to be, 17 and a size 2 forever.

I think short-term goals are important. Trying to set a missive for yourself for the entire year can be daunting, and it can feel too easy to fail or fall short of that.

I'm always trying to encourage people not to limit themselves in the same way that many of our parents stayed with one job forever.

I think I do overshare, and I sometimes marvel that I do it. But it's sort of - in a way, it's my way of trying to understand myself.

I don't think I've had a rocky love life. I'm just trying to figure out what I want.

I try to stay away from carb-y things at dinner.

There's nothing wrong with trying to reach out to new fans.

I almost never try to make the audience comfortable. I wouldn't want that if I were in the audience.

Everyone wants to be liked, so of course you want critical acclaim. After that, box office acclaim isn't bad. More than anything I think you have to try and make something you're proud of.

If you want to make something that's aggressive and challenging and peculiar and strange and trying to step outside of a traditional approach, some people aren't going to like it.

I just like writing lyrics. I find a little satisfaction in performing live, making records. But primarily, I just try to write every day.

I think it's worthwhile to expand your comfort level and just do something awful. I wasn't trying to make music for money.

If it's possible to have an enemy without making it personal or moral, then that's what I'm trying to do.

I'm not trying to write for the masses. I don't care.

I love songs because by nature they are concise; they sum up. I try to use as few words as possible. It's usually funnier that way, anyway.

I think I try to do a lot of things to weed out casual fans.