Trying Quotes

The way that I work is that I try to work in metaphors, and you can't write a metaphor unless you know where you're going, so I always think about the future.

In an earlier life, were you a pair of brakes?" "Try a brick wall.

I try to avoid saying anything positive about any presidential candidate for fear that if I actually like them then I will kill their campaign.

I'm not trying to become popular.

I support myself by public speaking and trying to work on as many appropriate and legitimate ventures as I can.

It was my dream that screwed up, the stupid hearthside idea that it would be wonderful to follow one great red line across America instead of trying various roads and routes.

I won't do anything bad, and I resent very deeply bad people who haven't got the ability, who try to interfere with the kind of work I'm trying to do because nobody's going to benefit from it.

With comedy, you have to do it right. In a drama, there's a lot of different ways to succeed in a moment. But comedy comes from reality. You can't try to be funny.

Any golfer worth his salt has to cross the sea and try to win the British Open.

I didn't try and say anything terribly meaningful. I'm definitely not a social commentator at all.

There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.

When all is said and done, teaching is what I try to do for a living.

Common mission trap for companies: trying to be all things to all people at all times.

Trying to get people to face reality and see the world the way it really is is an absolutely critical aspect of leadership, in my view.

When I'm working behind a camera, I feel like I'm trying to achieve something like a jazz musician does.

I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat.

It's funny because when you do become successful, you're forced to look backwards and try to crawl back into the womb where you first started to create.

Punk is an attitude, not a genre, age group, or time period. What's interesting is trying to define the blues and punk in different ways. They are very close cousins.

People have sort of a problem trying to see an end to a situation as being positive or romantic.

I was an adventurer, and I got married a few times. I kept trying to find a relationship as good as my parents'.

I try not to bore my readers.

Anything that I can do with my voice thats good, Ill try to do.

A lot of the men were upset or jealous of me because I got the girl. Men are always trying too hard. When I effortlessly get the girl, it pisses them off.

My forays into trying to date girls my own age from the school I went to were all pretty tortured.

I know as a fan of music I want my favorite artists to give me as much content and music as possible , so that is what I am trying to do.

Sometimes there are those that have been dealt a bad hand at life and are dealing with some heavy issues. The least I can do is try to brighten a persons day.

Europe is trying to get its fiscal house in order.

I try to take the pain and find a way to use it in my work; I find that it makes the work deeper.

Get outside of their comfort zone and try something new. You never truly grow when you're too comfortable.

I try to be my own player. I really haven't modeled my game after anybody.

What is the cost of not daring? What is the cost of not trying?

Sometimes...you have to try to forget people you love just so you can keep living.

Above all, do not talk yourself out of good ideas by trying to expound them at haphazard meetings.

These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try.

I guess I like a lot of directors. Or at least I try to.

When I'm in emotional pain, I usually embrace the pain, cry, and let it all out. Then I try to look on the bright side.

I'm not one about trying to slow things down. What I try to do is create an atmosphere for my family where we can pretty much have whatever.

Ignoring the source of creation and trying to conduct your life yourself is a terribly egoistic and ignorant attitude towards life.

I try to do yoga when I can to make sure that I'm flexible and that I'm not going to tear any muscle or pull anything.

It's daunting trying to do any service as an American to such a beautiful, fluid speech pattern that you [British] all have. We are just barbarians in comparison.

I walk around thinking job to job, trying to not have regrets.

I try to collect money and I keep it in a special place called the bank. I collect a bunch of things called money, dollar bills, and I keep them in a safe under my bed.

I'm trying to earn a living in the way that is most enjoyable to me. I love the world of literature, and I hope to support myself in it.

In my writing I'm trying to explore the violations people commit upon each other.

Hold your breath. Try holding your breath for just thirty seconds. That’s all it takes. Try it right now while you are looking at this line. Now…on the twenty-ninth second, do any opinions matter?

Trying is failing with honor

I try to tell one lie in every interview. It keeps people I know amused when they read the article.

I find I journalize too tediously. Let me try to abbreviate.

My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade one's life. That can make the miracle happen in reality. Try it.

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be.