Trying Quotes

The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for they can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain.

The principal role of the President of the United States is the security of the country and participating in trying to stabilize the world.

I told my manager, 'If we can't do the things now that we want to do, what good is the power?... Let's test it and try to get the things done that we believe in.'

I love to act, and I try to be challenged by what I do

Christianity isn't looking for a rainbow. If it were... we'd pass out opium at services. We're trying to serve God, not be God.

People who want to act rich when they're upper-middle class. They try too hard.

If you purposefully look to shock people, it isn't funny. That's what 50 million dollar Hollywood comedies do ; try to be shocking and dirty.

Many hundred-million-dollar Hollywood comedies aren't any good. They're trying to shock you.

I used to joke that I was trying to sell out, and nobody would buy me.

I try to write the most embarrassing thing I can think of.

You control the terms of the conflict. Make them play your game. Don't try to play theirs.

Ethics is not just an abstract intellectual discipline. It is about the conflicts that arise in trying to meet real human needs and values.

If you're afraid of something, you definitely have to try to tackle it.

But you also are facing an uphill battle if you are trying to be the first teacher who asks students to think in class and they are already 16 years old.

Could it be the girls and boys are trying to be heard above your noise?

I'm relaxed at the plate. I'm not trying to do too much.

I try to walk around with a smile on my face.

I think, for me as an actor, if you get to a place where you're satisfied, you're happy with it, then you're dead. It's over. You're not hungry anymore. You won't try things anymore.

I'm not even born yet. I'm still trying. I'm still pushing. I don't ever want to get to a place where I feel satisfied.

I don't want to run around and look at a shot through a monitor. That doesn't improve what I'm trying to do. I figure, once I've done my job, it's none of my business.

Don't try to transport something you don't possess...I want this truth to be incarnational.

Too much, too little, too late, to ever try again. Too much, too little, too late, let's end it being friends.

One of the biggest lessons is to keep your feet on the floor. Just keeping grounded and not really getting above yourself and always trying your best to be yourself.

Everybody has a stunt except me. Every single person has a stunt, but I don't have a stunt, there's nothing. No wire, no pulling. I try to get in on the danger, but there's nothing.

In figure skating, your body can only last for so long. I can't be 50 and trying to skate but I can be 50 and be in fashion, so I have to look to my future and what I want to achieve.

To me, figure skating is an art form, and that's what I always try to bring in, even to my competitive programs.

Don't be satisfied... always try to strive for more.

The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive.

I did come to L.A. to try to get on TV and get in front of a camera, so I could have a stage career in New York.

People are trying to live freely outside of, or within a system that maybe for them on a day-to-day level isn't as free... I definitely think we're positively orientated.

I'm reaching a certain level [at school] that I had been aspiring to with all these incredibly advanced classical peers around me that I had been trying to be able to hang with them a little bit.

I hope to be making television shows and films, and creating content that captivates Latinos. I try not to think about it too much, though. I'm more focused in the present.

I don't think I compete with myself by trying to make a better book. I don't know that that's possible. I mean, I've already done my best books, so I'd like to just make something I also like now.

All over the world copyright holders are trying to limit consumers' rights. We cannot have that.

Going after any movie there is a lot of competition to try and get it.

I love the process of working with people and having things going on, all the time, and just trying to trust your instincts.

I love the adventure of telling all types of stories and trying to conquer each one.

We are fortunate to have some of the greatest and best teachers in the world, but we want to make sure that those few that try to sneak through the system are caught in advance.

Trying to solve the mystery is what I enjoy most about writing.

Obviously, I like to write stories that are page-turners. But I always try my very, very hardest to be as factually true as possible.

Discover the time of day when you write best, and write then. For me it's about 7 am to noon. For other people it's overnight. Try not to do anything other than write between those times.

We want to see ourselves as curious and open-minded and smart and understanding things in terms of context and nuance, but when someone tries to do that in the midst of a shaming they're turned on.

It's been in the back of my head for five or six years, but more on the local level to get involved and try to create a better environment for my children and grandchildren.

I try to keep up, and the scientific perspective is always part of my creative approach.

And try as I might, I am having difficulty giving a f**k.

We're going to do a challenge. I'm going to try and download every movie ever made and you are going to try to sign up for Obamacare - and we'll see which happens first.

The best way to describe my ability was to say that after the game the other kids would say to me, 'Way to try!'

If you try to hit a grand slam, you’re going to strike out.

I'm not trying to be modest of self-deprecating or in any way trying to do that.

You're just always looking for something new. That's why a lot of people bounce between TV and movies. You have the ability to try something else.