Trying Quotes

One of the key things that we did at Bank of North Dakota that I worked to try to do with our state economic development is make sure we are customer-service oriented.

I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.

I always begin with a character or characters, and then try to think up as much action for them as possible.

We've just let too many things happen. And now, try to turn around and fix it. Getting involved in a [Syria] civil war directly was never something I thought made sense.

I'm a change agent. And what we're beginning to see is a lot of the establish people, one more time, trying to stop me.

I try to keep what I say. And I - I'm not deviated from this position at all.

I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into my books.

Trying simply provides an excuse for not doing.

Why don't we try falling in love first and then I'll see what happens after that?

You can sell a lot more books if you work with other authors than if you try to do everything all by yourself.

I don't think the emergence of a superhuman intelligence would be at all catastrophic but much more likely to be beneficial - just as long as we don't start trying to interfere with it!

The main focus for me is not trying to find duet partners. It's about just making great songs. I want most of my album to be in my voice, because it's my point of view.

I'm trying to be me and embrace all the parts of me that have grown up, listened to more music and soaked up more influences.

I'm pretty adventurous with food, so I'm not afraid to try anything.

Some people, you know, should just go to college and do what they do and have a great job and not worry about trying to be famous as a singer. It's not for everyone.

I would be jokesmithing. I had files with tons of disses that I would try to write as I was on the train going to school.

[Brad Furman] wants to try stuff, he's willing to try stuff. And he wants electricity on the camera. And that's what I want, I want electricity whenever I'm performing.

I was trying to say something about Christianity, the idea that you have to be tortured to attain heaven. I didn't believe that.

As in a love affair, two creative people can destroy themselves trying to recapture that youthful spirit, at twenty-one or twenty-four, of creating without even being aware of how it's happening

We should be trying to reach the young workers because that's when you're most idealistic and have least fear.

It seems to me that the students are now half-awake enough to try and wake up their brother workers. If you don't pass on your own awareness then it closes down again.

I think with actors, if you just don't set about trying to crush their confidence immediately, you're usually OK.

Art is just a series of natural gestures. For God's sake, don't try to be artistic - all wild animals walk the same way.

If you told me I was going to live to 240, I would take 10 years off and try and act. I don't have that kind of time, so I'd much rather stick to playing guitar.

I'm trying everything I can not to be jaded 'cause I don't like jaded musicians.

I am trying to re-shape and improve my central position.

I'm just trying to keep things normal around the house, because there's no reason why things shouldn't be normal.

Let's move forward to try to address the most egregious and outrageous corrupting aspect of campaigns in America today and that is the incredible inundation of soft money and its pernicious effects.

The French remind me a little bit of an aging actress of the 1940s who is still trying to dine out on her looks but doesn't have the face for it.

In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don't think we're gonna try to do that.

Sometimes I - I try not to read too many fiction or novels.

Walter is incredibly complex. I do a lot of thinking about the work I do, and try to get the rhythms of scenes.

When you do stand-up, you're just concerned with trying to leave with some semblance of human dignity at the end of your performance.

I'm not really much of an actor, so when I started on 'The Daily Show', I was just trying to adopt the faux authority of a newsperson.

Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.

We have a name for those who try to praise when they have no pleasure in the object. We call them hypocrites.

I can imagine [the government] trying to tell Steven Spielberg 'We need 50 different cuts of your movie for each state.' It will screw us up in a real way.

If the thing is impossible, you need not trouble yourselves about it; if possible, try for it.

At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we agree with them.

When people try to stop free speech, stop people from talking, it creates pressure in the system that might cause people to act out.

I just try to live the right way the best I can. I make plenty of mistakes but I just try to do the best I can and be a great example for my kids.

Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations.

I probably wouldn't have done as many as I did in one year, which I did when I was trying to raise money.

We've invested millions of dollars in tourism. Now they're trying to industrialize and pollute the ocean. It doesn't make any sense to me at all.

I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images.

I like to try the scene over and over, but given the confines of television, I don't have that option.

The clouds appeared and went away, and in a while they did not try anymore.

I guess I'm trying to say, Grab anything that goes by. It may not come around again.

Men seem to be born with a debt they can never pay no matter how hard they try.

life passes by in a wink so try to never miss a moment of it