Trying Quotes

Because there's just so much in a day now, I keep writing in much more abstract terms, like I don't try to write about what happened anymore. It would be impossible.

If you know your characters well enough, you aren't trying to grasp for storylines. You're really thinking about their flaws and their passions and what they're chasing.

I like to keep pushing myself and trying things out. I get easily bored, so I need a challenge.

I'm very independent, creatively, always trying to push myself - and I think that comes from my mother.

In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.

I love a challenge, and trying to become the first person to break the speed of sound in freefall is a challenge like no other.

It's very dangerous, making your happiness based on success and fashion. I know the media cares about all that, but I try to ignore that world anyway.

I know I trust people too much, although I try to be a bit firm, but it is a fault that we have learnt from my father.

I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.

I'm trying to get a thicker skin. I like to be aware of people's perceptions of me, but when you put it as a priority, as a means to judging your worth, that's when it can be dangerous.

I've learned to be more accepting of myself. I'm 37, not 18, and I've got the lines to prove it. I try to remind myself that a girl can have it all, just not all at once.

I don't look at a lot of design. I try to stay focused on making sculptural art pieces and somehow translating them into design.

I dont ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.

I'm trying to be careful as much as I can eating this American food. Burgers are heavy. So, I'm trying to minimize that as much as I can.

I spend a lot of time trying to not do anything bad to anyone, but you can't live your life and not hurt people.

I'm not even fifty yet, but I still feel like Instagram and Spotify - I'm trying to stay with it! It's not easy. The world is going so fast.

In so many of my songs, I'm trying to touch on various aspects of love.

We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.

It is very well to say "be prudent, be careful, try to know each other." But how are you to know each other?

In every project, I always look for the depth of humanity inside of it. I'm just trying to say if we can help in some way heal the equation with [Afro-Americans] what's going on with us as people.

I was trying to capture this man's [Idi Amin] energy, and I did a lot of research in studying him. I tried to capture his 'Warrior King' energy inside of me as much as possible.

You need a relationship with Jesus, and I had never heard that before. So when my mom told me about that, I said, "Okay, let me try this." And so I did.

I'm trying to learn to smoke, which is rather weird when everyone is trying to stop. I'm not a smoker. But my character only smokes as an affectation.

I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.

Everyone wanted to be the best. Best student. Best servant. Best Christian. They got caught up in it, pressing and pushing until they forgot whom it was they were trying to please.

I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can.

The word 'living' has so many connotations that I'm almost reluctant to try to define it scientifically because it sounds as if I'm then downgrading all the other significances of that word.

I wasn't a club kid. I wasn't an artist. I was just a foreigner, trying to soak it all up. I had quite a lot of fun.

I'm not against anything that anybody might want to try to pull off in fiction. Fiction writing has to, at least, always represent a possibility of absolute freedom.

The most trying fools are the bright ones.

I try to find meaning or value in most things and be as diverse as possible.

When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.

We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not.

You are never so easily fooled as when trying to fool someone else.

We went into Iraq because Iraq posed a threat to the stability of the region and was engaged in the process of trying to develop weapons of mass destruction and had links to terrorists.

The Greek makes the distinction between petros and petra simply because it is trying to preserve the pun, and in Greek the feminine petra could not very well serve as a masculine name.

I really enjoy playing music. I feel like it's something to try to give to people.

For a while, it was something to try to push at people, playing old murder ballads and being upset about everything I was seeing around me. But now I feel a lot more at peace with it.

Ultimately you can't repress individuality, even though you can try.

So are we still trying to end racial politics or are there just too many advantages to some political parties for that?

That's the statement of the culture of England and Britain that someone would try to con a personal statement out of you to then be broadcast everywhere for everyone to debate.

It's my job to try to communicate with as little showiness as possible. I was a really showy actor as a young man.

I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right.

We will be far more effective as communicators when we acknowledge our mistakes, and then we try to make them up.

There are words that work, that are meant to explain and educate on policies that work, on products that work, on services that work. I'm not going to ever try to sell a lemon. I don't do that.

That's the kind of visual that you're trying to attract - something that in some way or another, connects you to what's happening there in a realistic way.

But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic.

I prefer to have all of this apparatus - historical, literary, critical - and then, beyond initial innocence and naiveté, to try to achieve a new innocence, a new naiveté.

Elie [Wiesel], when you ask, "Why do I want to know," I'm trying to grab the holy. And I'm getting thrown back.

I try to look at the texts and say: Is there a way that I can find history in the texts and separate it from what may be the mythological elements, and I don't find any rules for that.