Trying Quotes

I wasn't trying to be a scientist. I only ever wanted to be a naturalist, like a David Attenborough.

I'm highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don't feel in tune with British politics.

Fantasies are absolutely safe, as long as you never try to make them a reality.

At some point I realized that you don't get a full human life if you try to cut off one end of it, that you need to agree to the entire experience, to the full spectrum of what happens.

Zen taught me how to pay attention, how to delve, how to question and enter, how to stay with -- or at least want to try to stay with -- whatever is going on.

People who try to predict the future by extrapolating in a line of more of what exists - they are always wrong.

One of our troubles is that we try to make municipalities that are totally different from each other all act as if they were the same kind of creature, with the same kinds of possibilities.

I get absolutely ruthless in my own way about not doing anything else when I am trying to concentrate on writing a book. I have to stick to it and concentrate.

I find the film world very romantic. I want to try to be in more movies. When you're on a TV show and you do the same thing for years and years, it can get a little bit boring.

As a woman leader, I try to take every opportunity I can to do what my mentors did for me - engaging with young women and take them seriously.

I try to make my music have the quiet spaces of folk, the intimacy, and the energy of rock.

You can't have cinema by committee if you're trying to do it well.

I feel like the American people are being lied to and manipulated. President Bush is trying to force 9/11 and Saddam together.

I feel like Harriet Tubman, except I am trying to free people through underground music, to free themselves creatively and inspirationally.

You think I'm gonna feel better eatin' a carrot? Get a grip. There's two idiots out there trying to kill me, and you think I'm gonna waste my last breath on a vegetable? (Lula)

I make lots of mistakes. I try hard not to make the same mistake more than three or four times.

I've never been into what am I going to do next, trying to reinvent myself.

I'm just trying to get used to living on a fixed income. Now, it's going to get unfixed.

Take my last best advice: Try everything twice!

And in the end, I think, we're all just trying to survive, aren't we?

I discovered I loved acting at a Summer Camp. That's when I really realised that I enjoyed it and that I wanted to try it.

I'm trying not to be a kid all the time, but it's hard.

Funding a civilization through advertising is like trying to get nutrition by connecting a tube from one’s anus to one’s mouth.

I like bossy girls. I don't like girls who just do whatever they think you want them to do, and follow you around trying to please you all the time.

All we can do is try, do our best. Give as much time as we have to give, one day at a time. One breath at a time

I try to record music that people can relate to.

I found that I really enjoy helping people. I enjoy getting to know people and helping them in whatever endeavor they're trying to commit to.

Stuff with a group, stuff where there are other people around, I'll try that.

I really am passionate about making low-budget movies. You can try new stuff and unusual stuff, and you can break the rules.

When you come from nothing, you're basically just trying to get escape velocity, which means you and your family don't have to worry about being broke and that's all I ever cared about.

I'm not macho. I'm very open about things. I don't try to hide my feelings.

There are people that will try to hurt you and hold you down.

Right now I'm just trying to be baseball-oriented.

To me, when you have people trying to put their best foot forward but facing conflict, that's when stories are the most interesting.

Yeah, I'm excited about it, my teammates are telling me to look at the basket, so that's what I'm trying to do.

CBS was very generous in their offer to re-sign me. But I simply want to try something new.

It's a great feeling to do what you want and do what you love. Everyone should try it sometime if you're not doing it already.

EVERYTHING is love, so the only thing that's not love is our resistance to love, is us trying to be separate from the world.

Through my years as a writer, I've learnt how to simplify the message and pen songs that have a more specific quality - it's not just about my ego and trying to meet girls.

I feel like I write the same album every time but each time I try to convey the message more simply.

I try to stay under the radar.

Without trying to get too self-indulgent, there's a fine line between making something that's soundtracky and cinematic, or making it sound like a bad 70s prog-rock record.

I've never invested myself properly in trying to write stories. When I write lyrics, mostly I write each sentence separately on an index card and then I lay them out and I just mix them up.

You guys will write what you want to write, people will say what they want to say. I can't control any of that. All I can control is how I play. I'm trying to be the best player I can be.

Usually I'm trying to work with people that I've worked with before, so we have a certain amount of know-how and what we're going to do together.

I am just trying to find a way to make pictures.

I was too weak to walk. At least, I thought I was too weak. But in truth, I was too weak to try.

When you try rescuing someone and discover they can't be reached, why would you ever throw that back in their face?

If Jay spent as much time studying as he does trying to be a comedian, he'd be a big star.

Scientists say that Texas and Antarctica were connected at one time. In fact, early Mexicans used to go through Texas to try to sneak into Antarctica.