Trying Quotes

I changed up everything around me. I hold myself more accountable in certain situations. I try to be a better man, a better father, a better teammate.

I'm trying to earn everything given to me. I play hard and I want guys to remember that when they play the Magic they have to face Dwight Howard. And when you face him you have to get after it.

Music's the one thing I try not to analyze. I don't want to destroy the magic that has always been there for me.

I think this is where we're trying to get to eventually as a league too hopefully. To have an opportunity to represent and be a leader of a global brand, for me, it was a great decision.

People don't need to necessarily see me in the jersey to understand who I am and what message I'm trying to get across with the things that I'm marketing.

We're never trying to manipulate and mess with... When you finish the movie, you hope you did a good job but you never know.

I'm always trying to pop up in different genres, what interests me. Sometimes I just like to throw myself into new situations to see what it feel like.

Most of the time people are aiming so low on television. They're trying to reach that common denominator, especially on network television.

Look at his face. I bet his cornflakes try to crawl out of the bowl.

Lots of comics try stuff out all year round, which is very sensible - I don't.

I always try to address where I am. I'll talk to the people and try to find out what it is about that particular place that makes it distinct from everywhere else.

What I prefer is an audience who listen. And are intelligent. Which I try and assume every audience is. And that if something goes wrong, it's generally my fault and not theirs.

"What's miraculous about a spider's web?" said Mrs. Arable. "I don't see why you say a web is a miracle--it's just a web." "Ever try to spin one?" asked Mr. Dorian.

Sometimes a writer, like an acrobat, must try a trick that is too much for him.

I am trying to get my paintings a bit lighter in tone, as some of my recent oils have been mistaken for night scenes.

As a child, everyone dreams of finding treasure. There's romance and drama. But as an adult most people aren't going to spend their lives trying to find it.

Sometimes it's a good idea to think about what you want from a situation, and try to get it, rather than just blurt out the first thing that comes into your head.

Man can learn everything if he will but try.

There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.

No, I try not to be a negative thinker.

Do not wave stick when trying to catch dog.

I'm trying to be among the elite night after night, year after year. I just want to be the best ... and I love winning.

I understand what the dynamic of the brand Ed Gordon has been all these years. I'm just trying to keep that as real and as honest as I can and I don't take it lightly.

If we fight our enemy using the same inhumane and morally bankrupt techniques that we are trying to stop, we will simply become what we have beheld.

If I'm looking really intense, it's not because I'm trying to be mystical. It's because I'm thinking '[Dagnabit], that was supposed to be a 7th chord'.

The reality is that al Qaeda has been trying to attack the United States since long before Iraq.

When I'm putting the character together I try to find music that I think fits the character.

I love the fact that trying is respected. The American Dream: if you try, if you build it, they will come. I love that. It's honorable.

I'm not trying to denounce the visual past. It just seems impossible to me to be able to keep making the same image that I made six years ago.

The phone conversation where I haven't had a smoke, it's like trying to talk without using adverbs.

I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.

It is hard to try and find a rhythm when you're only out there for short spurts, but it's fine.

For me what was very important was to try to capture the essence that might have existed behind the myth, the human essence of the character.

my mother insisted that I had to try things on to make sure they were becoming. Becoming what, I always asked.

To reach the height of our ambition is like trying to reach the rainbow; as we advance it recedes.

In the software business there are many enterprises for which it is not clear that science can help them; that science should try is not clear either.

To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen.

People always try to put a title or a symbol on you. If you work in a bank, you are a banker. For me, they see a co-founder of Facebook.

Women: We cannot love them all. But we must try.

I once sat on the rim of a mesa above the Rio Grande for three days and nights, trying to have a vision. I got hungry and saw God in the form of a beef pie.

I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.

Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.

Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed.

Art should never try to be popular.

Many of the projects that we do that appear quite successful, it's actually often the second or third time we've given it a try.

I try not to be too plot-heavy and to balance the dramatic with the comedic.

Growth comes out of a healthy competitive atmosphere, not trying to choose a particular path forward.

Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things.

It's really hard to find good movies, and that's pretty much what I try to find, good movies.

I guess that would have been 1968. I was a freshman in college and I wasn't writing good poems, but I was at least trying to write poems then.