Trying Quotes

I love sports, and when I was playing soccer, I was always trying to be the leader on the team and the one who takes control.

I know that as a writer I'm trying to, in some small way, return the gift that I got, and maybe provide a reader the kind of experience that has changed my life.

There's a parallel between me going through these enormous efforts to try to make a moment that means something - and in a way, the figures are doing the same thing. There is that parallel, for sure.

Honestly, when I got to Hollywood I was trying to sell my songs.

Reading makes me want to write my own books, and just trying to understand what I see in the world around me makes me want to figure things out.

[Eva Braun] did not want me to interrupt her or try to lift her spirits. She told me she had to go through these periods by herself.

I just try to work with what I'm given and make it the best I can.

I usually like to get people in because I don't have a band or anything. In cities where I have friends, I try to get them to come out and dance for me.

I try to nap through as much of it as possible. I didn't even know about my Christmas movie until this February.

I try to put myself into whatever character I play.

I have "fat-guy syndrome." If they give me $50 million to make a movie, I'll try to make it look like it cost a hundred. If they give me $60 million, I'll try to make it look like it cost $120.

The movies that I do are in love with cinema, and I try to show that I am in love with cinema. I want them to be, in other ways, drinking from other sources.

I always try to hit a few areas when I'm making a record; I want the sounds to be experimental and exploratory, I want the drumming to be distinctive, and I want my voice to be able to shine through.

Yeah, I try to be really calm.

I try to get to know the actors as much as I can. I feel like I'm friends with them for starters and for a week or two, we rehearse when they're getting the costumes together.

I love music so much that I have to try to make my own music. And not copy music.

I overcome failure by doing it again and trying not to make the same mistake.

When we want to reach a dream for the second time, you want it to come true, when you try so hard, you are so close to achieving it, it makes things very difficult to live with afterwards.

Lazy poets try to elicit a reader's response with words designed to tug at the heart.

I want to know which idea you're going to kill yourself trying to make successful, not which ideas have crossed your idle mind.

You really can't spend money on social media unless you really try. Social media is really more about effort than expense.

In many relationships that I've had people just try to own the other person.

Some Jungian or Freudian would tell me I'm just trying to go back to the womb... at gunpoint, if necessary.

I'm constantly trying to be as original as I can.

I'm never there enough to really keep up with what's going on in the Australian film industry. I just try and be part of it as much as I can.

I’m trying to manage myself, not just my portfolio.

I'm trying to be present, not thinking and worrying about the past or the future. That's such a waste of time, you know?

I'm neurotic about trying not to be neurotic!

I've been trying to do films for years. So I've decided to wait until the next good part comes along and develop a record on my own in the meantime.

I think my days of trying outrageous things are over. I'm not looking for trends, I just want to be the best version of myself.

It's a waste of time for people to say things they think other people want to hear, or try and come off in a certain way. I try to be as honest as I can.

If you read something bad about yourself and it stings you, I've learned that somewhere that's a judgment I'm holding about myself, so I'll try to work through that.

I try to avoid barbecue potato chips. They're my weakness.

I was very much a tomboy for a long time, but as I start to get older, I realize I better actually try to preserve what I have and I better be a little conscientious about my regime.

I try to take care of my hair because it sort of has to withstand a lot of blowdrying and ironing.

I try to do things where I'm going to feel challenged in some way. I only really do one movie a year.

I try to do one thing at a time to utilise my time well.

The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think.

If there were only three women left in the world, two of them would immediately convene a court-martial to try the other one.

The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.

Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.

Don't beat yourself up for not being perfect. But you might want to kick your own a## if you're not trying to get better.

Don't worry about trying to impress people... Just focus on how you can add value to their lives.

I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.

I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.

I'm going to try and model myself after Kurt Russell and Jodie Foster.

I try to remind myself that nothing is permanent.

The Christian message is not an exhortation - "try hard to be good." Good advice, but there is no saving gospel in that.

I don't think I'm unlike a lot of people. I am just someone who is trying to find that mate, and I think it's a really hard thing to do.

Europeans should be patient and try to find a formula to resolve this nuclear issue. We are determined to remove any ambiguities over our nuclear ambitions and also protect our right.