Trying Quotes

You can try and read my lyrics off of this paper before I lay 'em But you won't take the sting out these words before I say 'em

If I can give myself credit for anything, it's that I do try to learn from the bad. I've never felt so sure that I'm in the right place doing what I'm supposed to be doing as I am right now.

My great goal in life is to try to remember that everything is of equal value.

I think you have to have a personal connection, and that's what I am always looking to try to create: a personal way in to a story.

I have had no control over my life. I have lived in a complete bubble. They found me and picked me for the part. And now I'm desperately trying to find my way through it.

We want to try to galvanize as many men and boys as possible to be advocates for change.

As I've got older, and since I cut all my hair off, I've felt a bit more liberated about trying different things out.

I'm trying my best to keep my private life guarded. It's not easy at all. Non, non, non.

Thinking up jokes is easy. The hard part is trying them out on stage, because you never know if they're funny until you get there. Not one comedian in the world ever really knows.

What's working for me is like when I go into the studio, I'm trying to get goosebumps.

A lot of people love Marco Rubio but they're gonna have - they also love Jeb Bush. They are having a hard time trying to figure out how they gonna - you know, figure that one out.

I've got a great dislike of reunions. It's a little like trying to go back and relive the best parts of your life, but you can't do it. Nothing is ever the same.

The only planning I do is about a minute before I play. I desperately try to think of something that will be effective, but I never sit down and work it out note for note.

The poster art over the years, art with social critique in it, has always been trying to make that point - that we are larger than they are.

By the time I was in my early-twenties and was living there on the Lower East Side, I was so surrounded by tragedy that I think that inspired me to try to reflect it in the artwork.

In terms of putting the cast together, no problems. You know, the only problem always is just price-point. Our ambitions as we get older, all of us, is to try and do more.

I don't [even] know the number of books on Abraham Lincoln. Ten thousand, twelve thousand? I have seen various numbers. It seems like every generation is always trying to come to terms with Lincoln.

I like it when every pitch counts. There are a lot of people who see it as a negative, but I try to feed off it.

You want to be as dominant as possible and you want to put some doubt in the hitters' heads. That's what I'm trying to do every single time I'm on the mound.

We are ready to die for an opinion but not for a fact: indeed, it is by our readiness to die that we try to prove the factualness of our opinion.

Good and evil grow up together and are bound in an equilibrium that cannot be sundered. The most we can do is try to tilt the equilibrium toward the good.

Everything that could be said already has; I'm just trying to say it differently.

I'm sort of a traditionalist usually. I love old soul music and The Beatles; I realized I was sort of trying to make music sometimes that fit into an era that's gone.

I try to not to be a celebrity as much as possible.

I'm new to the Twitterverse and so I'm attempting to build my followers. I'm trying to be a better tweeter. I try not to tweet too much, just when I've got something worthwhile to say.

I try and keep busy with something, but I also give myself permission to be busy with something that is creative and rewarding, not just the errands to the dry cleaner.

Back when I was in theater school, trying to figure out what I was going to do with my life, 'Sweeney Todd' was a huge touchstone for me, my favorite musical for sure.

I got Michael Caine's book, Acting In Film, and I read it on the plane, desperately trying to glean information from him about how to adapt my craft, which was actually very helpful.

The goal is to talk about the issues that are happening in the USA with the ultimate goal of making change. Not just some rebellious act that we're trying to have against our country.

Point of view is present in anything I write, but I really try to let the subject and facts speak for themselves.

As an investigative reporter, I'm trying to uncover things and expose them to create a dialogue.

I play hard and aggressive. I don't lay out the huge body checks because it's not really the style I play. But I love to be around the net and love battling corners and trying to dish pucks out.

That's what character is, it's in the trying.

I dare you to try to shortcut success! It's not going to happen! There are no shortcuts to success!

You're trying to do big things and you ain't mastered the little stuff!

There's somebody else just like you trying to do it! But you gotta do it faster than they do it!

Every time I catch myself saying, "Oh no, you shouldn't try that," I think, "Yes, I should."

I don't believe in organized religion. I believe that people should try to connect with their own life force and let it lead them to do with their lives what they will find satisfying.

I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.

Whenever I see that ball coming my way I am just hungry to get it. When I get the chance to take it I try to score as much as I can.

Structure is nothing if it is all you got. Skeletons spook people if they try to walk around on their own. I really wonder why XML does not.

Have you considered the option of getting the joke? If not, try it now and redeem your soul.

There are songs and artists now who are trying to do the same thing: be honest to their experiences.

Maybe some people are better off in obscurity than trying to keep on expanding.

A lot of times, just because people are different, they're judged. I try not to let that concern me. But sometimes it can be hurtful, because I do feel judged sometimes for being a little different.

To keep my head healthy, [I'm] trying to meditate every morning, which is something I'm sort of getting into more, realizing that it's really positive to do every day.

If we can just try every day to be the best versions of ourselves, we are offering to the world the best addition to society.

Making excuses and not trying because I was scared were my go-to reactions. Nothing was going to change in my life unless I did something about it.

I started to realize that everyone goes through those doubts, and I need to try and be the best version of me I can - not only for myself but everyone around me.

I am constantly trying to figure things out, and writing and decompressing is a way for me to analyze and try and grow and understand.