Trying Quotes

When I tried to grasp at either what I love or what I hate, I destroyed the very ability of being able to really penetrate the essence of either. By trying to understand it, I would just crush it.

There's been this attempt to block Donald Trump, in primary candidates and Democrats, that - to try to make everything he says some sort of extreme overstatement.

What's interesting is the populace movement of fundamentalism is starting to mirror that approach that elite fundamentalism has long had of trying to have influence across the political spectrum.

I see music as an aid. It overcomes my internal editor, especially when the music evokes the character or the mood I'm trying to build.

Only sometimes I try to think about it in context. When I think about the context of, "Oh, I'm this or that," in this society, that's one of the terms.

But I care about the reader, and I'm trying to keep the reader's attention for as long as I can.

Unfortunately most easily-digested entertainment has as much actual content as a Spongebob Squarepants episode, so the trick is to try to fit actual nourishing content into enjoyable entertainment.

We give up and don't try. We don't take sufficient chances or risks. We aren't resilient in the face of failure. We follow the "rules" too much and don't push the envelope.

We don't want God to remember our sins, so there is something fundamentally wrong in our relentlessly trying to remember those of others.

I always try to be open to whatever the universe wants from me.

My rule is if one person says it, a thousand people want to say it. That goes for compliments too. I try to balance it out in my head.

I don't have any jokes about my divorce or my ex-husband, who is a lovely person. It really is about how I was an idiot trying to push this guy to get married when I wasn't even sure if I wanted to.

I just try to live a moderate life of always checking and trying to be the best person I can be and I'm in therapy and am always working on something.

I try to minimize the noise, and I don't use Facebook except for my fan page, and I don't look at anything. It's getting a lot easier.

I've been trying really hard to be more domesticated. It's not in my nature to clean and cook, and so I've been really good about it.

I love the creative process, of getting to create your own show or your own movie, whatever it is you want to do, and have the resources to try and make that happen.

I'm a believer in the parent first, friend second philosophy, and trying to find that balance.

If there's something in the kitchen I like, it must be eaten. I try not to leave any snacks I wouldn't want to eat on a daily basis in the cupboard.

From what I hear, it's a normal thing to feel guilty as a mother, especially when trying to fill the needs of a newborn along with maintaining what you had with your first child.

The idea is to be healthy, not to wear yourself down or to try and be a twig or change yourself drastically.

I'm not always really calm, but I try not to get taken away by things that are incredibly transitory.

I think for me, when I'm looking at a script I really try to consider what experience am I embarking upon, because for me it's really about the experience.

I'm happy with what I've done but it's a challenge to try to win more.

I just want to get to the level where I can say that that's my level, just try to play well, get up there.

At a very young age I was predicting outcomes, trying to take all the information and find the best route to wherever I was going. I avoided a lot of pitfalls because of that.

I feel like every time I walk into the audition room, they can tell if you're faking it and if your heart's really not with it. So I try to keep it as real as possible.

I'm always trying to convince myself there's something important about what I do. But some peoples' lives are really altered by a night at the theater.

I am at my worst trying to write about things that overlap with my life.

Etiquette? What kind of etiquette was there in someone trying to murder me?

I just try work out at least twice a week if I can.

I couldn't really experience being an author when I was still working in publishing - I was trying to negotiate being both. Sometimes the knowledge doesn't translate between the two roles.

You're not living if you don't go out and try things for yourself.

Even if the role is very far away from me, to try and make it as nakedly me as possible is an intriguing notion.

You don't want your relationship to be in the press, but at the same time, and this is only a theory, the more you try and keep it secret, the more the media tries to crack it open.

It was like pulling teeth trying to get me to L.A. I hated it for so long, but now I've got this great life here.

Maybe I'll have something out by Christmas, maybe not. I don't know, I'm really trying to take my time and do what feels right. (about the next step in her music career)

I just try to feel good in my own skin as much as I can.

I would definitely say that I am a very big movie musical fan in general and I try to see every one that I possibly can - and 'Glee' every week.

This is embarrassing and personal, but once a month, since I was twelve years old, I go to my favorite jewelry store and try on my dream ring.

Lucian [of Samosata; 120-190 CE] was trying to make his audience laugh, rather than start a revolution

Sometimes when I read Scripture, I'm trying to learn something or teach something or change something in my life.

Found, I told myself. Try to get found.

The part that I felt most comfortable with going in was just working with actors and trying to make them feel comfortable and safe so they could find the performance. That part felt organic to me.

I'm always trying to bring unusual content to a different audience - a non-art-world audience.

I'm not in any way trying to make statements that are not also invaded by emotions and abstract ideas that I don't really understand myself. It's more interesting when I can do that.

As hard as I try to sound tough and dark, I still sound cute.

Just keep trying, and your dreams will come true. But you have to give it all your time, effort, and soul.

I never had credit card debt... I was very much about trying to gain my freedom, so it was about saving.

I was trying to actively get away from music, I guess. But I recorded a whole bunch of instrumental piano songs.

I've become much more spiritual and use a lot of energy to try and keep the balance.