Trying Quotes

I've been in a competitive situation almost all my life. I've been having a competition with myself and trying to be the best I could be.

Try not to annoy your relatives unnecessarily.

I'm an e-mail junkie though I'm trying to read my in-box only twice a day and to answer all at once.

I love to talk with children. I try to visit schools but it's hard for me to travel when I'm trying to write. Some authors are able to do both.

I am not an 'instant' actor... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times.

People want jobs, but nobody has a recipe for how to get them. And so they are trying different things.

The nice thing about true hopelessness is that you don't have to try again.

We waste a lot of time and a lot of talent trying to write for the common reader, whom we will never meet. Instead we should be writing for our ideal reader.

Try approving of yourself just as you are, and spoiling yourself rotten with small kid's pleasures.

Last time I was recording, I was trying to loop on the computer, but it's really difficult because it's really different from looping on hardware.

I'm trying to get under people's skin in a way. I don't like films that go in one ear and out the other.

I wouldn't miss the fame. I don't go out hunting for it. I try to avoid it and to slip into the background wherever I go.

It never ceases to amaze me how many folks jump right over "I'll try" to "I can't.

I am forever a romantic. I try to bring that into my work. I try not to be fooled by romance. Or work.

In the justice system, we say there must be open justice where there is to be justice. The judged while trying must themselves be tried before the public.

WikiLeaks is literally the worst place in the world to try and plant a false story.

There are many things you shouldn't measure. Don't, for example, try to measure how much you love your wife!

When I hear Sam Cooke's 'A Change Is Gonna Come', it frustrates me because no matter how hard I try, I can never be that good.

If you try to do a look-alike and an impersonation, then that's just not conducive to good drama.

Like most photographers, I try to capture a moment in my work.

I'm just trying to get rid of all the mystery surrounding me and let people see what I'm thinking. So they can understand me and stop assuming things about me.

I always believe that a person can learn so much by just jumping into something and trying to do it rather than having someone else teach you everything.

I don't know when I'm writing dark. I don't know when I'm writing funny or even heartbreaking. I'm always just trying to write it true.

Try to think of writing as a gift - more complexly put: it is the curse and the cure.

Are there books about us or something?” This makes Pressia angry - the idea that this world is a subject of study, a story, instead of filled with real people, trying to survive.

I'm one of those people that loves to try everything.

I always tweet about where we're at. Since I'm performing at amphitheaters, I'll try to run up and down the stairs and across the field.

Acting is like free therapy! Trying to make people laugh or cry can be inspiring.

In trying times, I like to remember that you have to keep walking because you can't see what is around the corner.

I'm an actress and I want to act, and I'm a mom and I want to be with my kids, and it's trying to find a way to do both.

There's an expression: Great is the enemy of the good. Sometimes in trying to be great, you make a mess of things.

The recognition definitely helps and goes a long way for helping me to reaffirm my decision to purse art fulltime. Getting awards and nominations encourages me to keep trying even harder.

I know the truth now. You've figured out I'm falling in love with you and you're trying to make me stop by hurting me this way. Well it won't work.

You know, if you're trying to mark your territory, you could've just peed on me before I came over here and saved us both a lot of time!

Shakespeare - it's not funny. No matter how they try to make Shakespeare funny, when it's meant to be funny it's not funny.

I try to see my films just once. It's like a dream you've been through when it's been intense, and you just have to go through it once more just to make sure you've had it.

For me, acting goes to a special place; it's almost mystical. You have to let go of what you think is good; it's a jump into trust, and trying to reach without wanting too much.

George Clooney is trying his own way but he's struggling too because he has to deal with America. Yet, if he has a foot in Europe, it's not for nothing.

I live my life trying to never appear to be a small man.

I'm more focused or try to be more focused on my acting and writing and comedy and let the other stuff fall where it may.

You don't have to spend eight years of your life trying to get something done. You can get your answers very quickly, and there's something satisfying about that.

I think its so exciting to try anything you possibly can.

You think people hate a fat person? Try a fat person who's trying to get thin.

I've been trying to write. I also spent a lot of time on different campuses, in conversation, helping other writers. That's what I do: I teach them writing.

I try not to define my own music. I think we are the only ones in the genre that's of our own creation.

I don't want to copy the people I admire - I'd rather find out what inspired them and try to find my own way through it.

I'm not saying I know everything about love. I'm still trying to figure out girls... I don't think we'll ever totally figure out girls.

When I get off a flight, I'm not trying to sit there and let them take pictures of me. I'm tired. I'm scratching my eyes. I just don't like taking pictures in general.

I think people have certain preconceived notions of certain people that they've never met. And so, that's sort of what I try to work from.

It's not that I write songs that are easy to get but I don't think there's a lesson that I'm trying to teach in any of my songs. There's not a moral at the end of it.