Trying Quotes

You try to take it game-to-game and keep working.

I don't think my lyrics go so well when I try to sound poetic. Some people do that really well. If I did that I'd feel like it wouldn't be genuine.

I don't want to be Oprah [Winfrey], I'm not trying to be Barbara Walters, but we can all do better.

I like to YouTube a lot, and try and find unknown singers.

I try and make all my songs sound different from each other while doing it in a way that's still me. It's a tricky thing to do.

I was trying to find a new home in the world.

Trying to get your sexual partner to make a monogamous commitment to you is not a loving thing to do; it's selfish.

I don't date civilians. I don't even try. I'm totally out of the game of dating or trying to get a girlfriend or anything like that.

Panic does not help, even if you are unable to answer. Try to ask questions to the interviewers as well and it should be impressive enough.

Even now I try to make each page compelling for the readers to get absorbed in the book.

I've always loved Elton John and that is one of my favorite songs by him and Bernie (Taupin). The American songbook is ever-expanding and I feel like it works well with what I was trying to say.

I want every man on the force to try his best, his level best, to try to avoid arresting anyone. I know that this going to take great will power but try.

I try to be mindful in my daily life, trying to stay more present and have more intention. It keeps me calm, and I feel less whipped about by my emotions.

It is important to me to keep trying to push myself to try lots of new musical styles and approaches. To keep growing. It is my version of jumping out of planes.

I like the idea of trying to write a book in every genre.

I do not actually see how art, literature can be anything other that being in that domain of trying to tell us, trying to get us to see what is important in our lives.

Whenever I try to do anything on a typewriter, it's like having this machine between me and the words; what comes out is not quite what would come out if I were scribbling.

What I try to encourage individuals to do is don't sweat the small stuff, sweat the big stuff.

I started off doing plays as a theater actor. But I never thought of it in terms of it leading anywhere. I was just trying to be the best actor that I could be in the context of what I was doing.

I choose every role, in association with the other ones. I try not to do one thing, over and over and over again.

I think my legs are a strong point, so I try to draw attention to them rather than the upper part of my body.

Mayors typically don't do the things we're trying to do... Revolutionaries aren't typically Mayor.

There was a positive side to not trying at something: you could always pretend that your life would have been different if you had.

It's never too late to try to end a conflict.

I'm not really much of a prankster, but I've definitely been pranked. I never really liked being pranked, so I generally try not to prank people.

I'm just trying to be the best player that I can be.

Try to help people rather than focusing on what's in it for me.

A career like mine as an actor has a lot of ups and downs. Sometimes you wonder if you're not wasting your time trying to carve out a space for yourself in this crazy entertainment industry.

I'm not in the business of satisfying everybody. I'm in the business of trying to satisfy the people who elected me governor.

The message [of Donald Trump ] is that if anybody lives in those circumstances in this country, that's something that the government should be working to try to change.

As we have 250,000 Syrians murdered, slaughtered; millions running around the world, running for their lives. It's not working. We need to try something else. And that is not reckless.

You travel here and you travel there, trying to get out from under the cloud, and nothing works, and then one day you realize you've been carrying the weather around with you.

I think if I try to develop a formula, it ends up not working.

For me, I want my kids to find their way. If they're interested in something, I want them to try it out.

To many, God is not someone you know but something you try to get off your back.

When you try to go back and watch improv on tape, it almost never feels as good as it did when a crowd was laughing at it.

Real philosophy is like trying to read an alarm system installation manual in Korean.

The thing about hipsters is that they take very seriously trying to make themselves look like they don't take themselves seriously.

Trying to make strangers laugh is crazy and more than a little narcissistic.

A big company is like trying to steer a luxury liner.

Well, I'll keep on auditioning and one day maybe I'll go to LA and try out for films there.

I think Gram did his best work in co-writes. Sometimes when you're working with one other person, it's such a magical thing. You're editing each other and you're trying to create that one spark.

I was trying to figure out how to use the skills I had developed in the world of social change.

I put on music and I'm washing my car. And I put on music if you have somebody and you're trying to make love. You put that on in the background and you go, maybe this will be romantic.

Believe in yourself and try not to take anything personally.

I'm not trying to sound like I turned into some kind of wise man, but it's nice to realize that your little pocket of the world isn't the whole world.

We're not going to pierce everything that we have and paint our faces trying to get a different market. We'll grow with our audience. We're just going to keep doing what we do.

I'm just trying to get back to normal life.

I'm interested in youth culture - when your parents are running your life, but you think you're the big man - but I'm not trying to make a statement.

We are trying to pick the next president, not review the birth of the current president.