Trying Quotes

Most people who succeed in life have no clue that what they are trying to achieve is impossible.

I would rather be erring on the side of common-sense pragmatism and doing everything possible so that I felt that no stone was left unturned in terms of trying to protect school children.

I'm trying to suggest a kind of Middle Earth, in Tolkien terms. It's a contiguous world; it's like ours but different.

People watch me when I get into these characters that I have in my head, so perhaps I should try acting. So I did.

There is cruelty in the world Eliza, you can see that, can't you? It surrounds us. It breathes on us. We spend our life trying to escape it.

I am going to work with Tom Daschle. And I'll work with the Republican leaders and the president to try and come up with something that we can all be proud of.

I'm never trying to be commercial or accessible, or saying "let's do this weird stuff, but at the same time we gotta do this safe stuff".

A fool tries to look different: a clever man looks the same and is different.

I always try to suit my clothes to my company. It is the only way to be inconspicuous.

People are funny. When they are young, they will spend their health to get wealth. Later, they will gladly pay all they have trying to get their health back.

The harder you try to forget something, the more you think about it subconsciously.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

I felt the hand and the call of God in my life that I would be doing ministry and trying to serve Him the best that I could.

I view my strongest competition as myself. You're always trying to top yourself, rather than worrying about what other people are doing.

I try to take things that challenge me either physically or mentally, or I have to learn a new skill.

Hey, I'm just trying to become the Michael Caine/Gene Hackman of my generation.

I swear and it comes off a little angry, no matter how funny I'm trying to do it. If I use certain words with a certain intensity, it's like 'Whoa whoa whoa, buddy buddy!'

I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I'm doing.

Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.

We gave up on the idea of trying to make the record a good representation of the live performance.

When you're trying to make somebody the best version of themselves, you have to keep defining that over a period of time because sometimes it changes.

It is not lawful for you to make a compromise with God: to try to fulfill part of your duties and to omit others at your own pleasure.

When I make my own music, there is no external producer. I just do everything as quickly as possible. I try not to overthink things.

When we try to observe things that are very small, the act of observation itself will significantly disturb the state we are seeking to measure.

I always want to try and see what the appeal is in anything. It's the healthiest and most honest approach.

I don't like to say, "Oh, I don't like this kind of music." I like to listen to it and try to see what people who like it get out of it.

There's this idea that there was a point in our childhood when we were in some way better than we are now and we should try to hang on to that.

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

I really try towork with an artist who is trying to create a long legacy of quality rather than trying to jump aboard a trend.

If Mumia Abu-Jamal has nothing important to say, why are so many powerful people trying to shut him up?

Our thoughts, our language, are always at a distance from whatever they're trying to describe. We have other kinds of languages, like mathematics, like music, like art, but there's always that gap.

Believe me, I'm not going to try to get into testing.

America has an ability to try to make some things happen that other countries don't necessarily have.

I was using them as teachers for technique but I was never trying to be a folk.

I try to remember at least twenty to thirty things I'm grateful for every day, and I share those with at least one person that I am super grateful for.

Have you heard Alanis Morisette trying to play the harmonica? She doesn't know how to play the harmonica. Well guess what, Alanis, I INVENTED the 'don't-know-how-to-play-harmonica-harmonica-solo.'

It's kind of a little fly-on-the-wall look at these people trying to stay sane.

If you try to be funny, you're not being funny.

It just goes to show, if you try to ruin someone's life, it only gets better. You just don't get to be a part of it.

I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer because it's the only apprenticeship we have, it's the only way of learning how to write a story.

My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy.

I shaved this morning for precisely that reason. I was like, 'Well, you never know when someone is going to clamp down on your calf and try to suck out the snake poison.

Why would you try to kill this guy, Kevin? He's a genius. Nuts to your truce.

I think maybe the reason I have spent most of my life being afraid is that I have been trying to prepare myself to train my body for real fear when it comes. But I am not prepared.

You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail.

In the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to.

It's nice to sometimes get things out of life, rather than stealing from other artists. I'm trying to steal from the real people.

I don't mean to be highfalutin about it, but I try to limit my visibility.

I've been circling the wagons down at Times Square, trying to fill up this hole in my soul but nothing fits in there.

Any time you try to create an Internet meme, automatic fail. That's like the worst thing you can do.