Trying Quotes

I try not to underestimate my opponents, no matter how ridiculous their beards.

Pay close attention to when you're being the real you & when you're trying to impress an invisible jury.

I realized why I need to start a new company. Not for the money. Not because I'm 'bored'. But because a company is a laboratory to try your ideas.

Americans are not brought up with meter. They're not brought up with poetry. If you try to get them to recite, they're too embarrassed.

Every time I've made a plan in my Hollywood acting career, something else has happened, so I've gotten out of the habit of trying to predict the future.

Even through my college years, I was trying out plays and shows, but I never really thought it made much sense to try to be an actor. I thought it was foolish, really.

As a first baseman, hitting home runs is what's expected of me. But I don't really try to hit home runs.

Each of us has a God-shaped space within us. Only God can fill that space. But we run ourselves ragged trying to find things other than God to fill it with.

For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.

God is trying to woo us into a love affair with God.

I am a Nobel Peace laureate and my business should be to try to bring stability, not to be a red rag to bulls.

Things happen in NFL games. I don't try to dwell on it. I try to say, It happened. Let's move onto the next one.

I try to use all aspects of media and my gifting and calling to help as many people as I can.

I don’t know how to explain it.” “Try words. If that doesn’t work, we’ll move on to interpretive dance.

I'm trying to go through the whole process of high school to college to work.

I wanted to look sexy and I felt like I was too skinny so I started working out with a trainer trying to build some muscle because I was like this skinny little scrawny girl.

I try a different cookie recipe every time I bake.

I try to avoid Twitter. I occasionally can't resist the siren call of email.

Once you've chosen a man, don't try to change him', I wrote with more confidence. 'It can't be done. More important-don't let him try to change you.

And Finally I put down the last and the best advice I knew, on growing older. 'Stand up straight and try not to get fat.

Just remember, I am not going anywhere,” he said, still watching her lips. “And if you ever try to hide from me, I will not believe you are dead. I will find you. Count on it.

Mystery causes a mental itch, which the brain tries to soothe with the balm of reasonable talk.

Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere.

I have three goddaughters - I'm not sure why they trust me, because I have no experience with children - but I try.

I try not to be overly analytical.

I don't lie. I would never stuff my bra because it's going to come off and the truth is going to be revealed. I don't like that padding. I try to be completely - if not brutally - honest.

I never try to make a major fashion statement but I want to be the friend in a woman's closet. I make dresses that women get laid in.

If you're trying to lose weight, you just have to eat less. I mean that.

The best-dressed man is an Italian who is trying to look English, or an Englishman who is trying to look Italian.

I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it.

Nobody is going to try to confiscate guns, although some Web sites know better: President Obama, they are certain, wants to.

I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed to read the guests' books.

I think there’s no question but what the tail end of the Bush administration, Bush-Cheney administration, that we took steps specifically geared to try and free up the financial sector.

When I get some budding young comic who'll come up to me and say, 'What was it like to do it in those days?' I try to be as gracious to him as Stan Laurel was to me.

I always try to be a reliable friend.

You try to be young, maybe you like to have a few toys, but it's not the most important thing in life.

Certainly one must try everything, but only to become more certain what God's way is.

One has to get through a big pile of mail every day. I don't pass my letters on to a secretary; rather, I try to take care of all of them myself.

I am not in politics. 'President Mutombo?' No, no, no. There has never been a politician in my family, and I am not going to try to be the first one.

The goal for me is to have one track just flow into the next one and you can just get lost in it. I try to find that fluidity.

I try to do something good, but when it doesn't go good, then I go like too much into myself, what I'm doing right, wrong, instead of thinking more what I have to do with the ball.

I try to be cognisant of when and how and what I eat and get as much rest as I possibly can, as that helps the vocal cords.

My main thing is constantly looking forward and trying to make music that I couldn't have made at any other time.

If I have a chance to positively impact how the populace views DJs, then I'm going to try to do my part to nudge things in the right direction.

I was asked to do TV ads for Macintosh. Nowadays, I think anybody would jump at that but, at the time, it didn't feel appropriate for what I was trying to stand for.

I'd say most of my work is just trying to make sense of the disorienting and overloaded world that we inhabit. We're bombarded with sound at every level.

Try this experiment: one day go in a record store and just try and guess what the music sounds like by looking at the album cover.

Funny enough, every role that I have had, I try to tone down my accent or speak with better diction.

I try not to make social consciousness a massive part of my music or comedy because I prefer to be an entertainer first and foremost, then do actual grassroots work when I can.

I’m trying my best to keep up with all this new technology and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.