Trying Quotes

When I stopped trying to write songs, that's when I'm able to begin writing songs. You have to just use your life, and the things around you for your inspiration.

I am trying to get closer to God.

I do my best to try to keep God with me on a personal level. It's my belief that God really wants a personal relationship with us.

I just live my life and try to be present. When I'm present in the moment and something comes, I can capture it, because it doesn't come from me, it's out there.

Now, what we are not talking about, what you're really coming to, is what compromises one makes so that the listener understands somewhat of what you're doing, what you're trying to express.

Here I am alive, and it's not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.

Red lines are kind of political arguments that are used to try to put people in a corner.

I'm happy 'bout life. Still trying. I ain't giving up on life.

Usually a good part of the people trying it end up not making it.

I'm trying to stay as healthy as possible but there's no pressure to be really skinny. No. That's just a bit wrong.

I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.

I try to make those references. I try to make sure that they're not too obscure. But outside of that, I dare not claim anything in the spiritual realm for my own.

I always felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get a song together.

It is important to understand what are you trying to capture with a camera. What you want to use this tool for. It helps to begin to search for and concentrate on thematic photography.

My films start with images, a few images and a few feelings, and I try to edit them together to see the correspondence between these images and these feelings.

I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each.

What happened there was they were moving the chains and we had the call made. We were really trying to get two plays if we could have rather than use the timeout thereafter.

Women have that weird way of trying to be feminist. You know, like 'hear me roar.' But what they really want is a man to open the door for them.

We just can't go and try to turn the clock back, that's not happening anymore. You've got to figure something else out.

It's just about really being sensitive, and trying to play a music that is about music.

What I've been trying to do for years is to get the music played on a station other than jazz stations, you know, to expand the audience.

I've spent years trying to "get in touch with my inner child," but now my new therapist tells me it's mostly been inappropriate touching.

A minute goes by so fearfully quick. You might as well try to stop a Bandersnatch!

During that time, I began writing and designing the propaganda that we distributed to the students who we were trying to convince to join us.

I regard it as ethically unacceptable and impractical to censor any aspect of trying to understand the nature of our world.

I just keep fighting and try to be the last one standing.

I'm trying to be a comedian, you know?

When the world moves forward too fast for some people, they try to pull us all back with their fear.

What happens if your choice is misguided, You must try to correct it But what if it’s too late? What if you can’t? Then you must find a way to live with it.

I shan't ever understand your willingness to lie down and die," Felicity bars. "If you won't at least try to fight, I have no sympathy for you.

You are what you know, as an actor, so you gotta try to know as much as you possibly can.

I'm drawn to people who share that sense of loss. All actors are trying to repair damaged relationships. I think that might be why I've been drawn to other actors.

I like to live righteous. And I just want everyone to know I'm not trying to get out of anything.

I love this idea of trying to create that intellectual eroticism. That was what I was working toward all along.

I'm not trying to make something that is difficult to perform every night. It needs to proceed at the speed of that character's thought because that's the only way it's actable.

I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.

I'm trying not to put pressure on myself to decide what to do at this moment, and just sort of go with what's happening.

One thing I like about trying to write is that I can possibly write myself a role. Otherwise, you're at the mercy of whatever roles are out there that people are willing to give to you.

Before I could talk, I would try to sing.

I'm extremely blessed because I travel extensively for my work, but I always try to incorporate a bit of leisure with business.

A thousand thoughts ran through my mind. Well, at least six or seven, anyway, because a thousand thoughts are a lot. Try counting your own thoughts and see how long it takes you to get to a thousand.

I've got this weird body chemistry that I don't like to get high. I'm not going to say I never tried drugs. I tried most everything. I didn't try injectables. But I didn't like it.

A breakup is like a broken mirror . It is better to leave it alone than hurt yourself trying to fix it .

I saw my whole life in front of me, and I had to let go of past things that I was trying to hold on to that were dark in my life.

It's okay for someone to chase me and then try to cut me off so I ram my car into a tree . . . I mean, I know this guy was trying to do his job, but his "job" almost landed me half-dead.

Nobody in the Senate on a bipartisan fashion trusts the Iranians. They lie. They cheat. They're a murderous regime. They've been trying to develop a nuclear weapon.

I try to eat on the healthier side, but baked goods are hard to resist. I just love sweet things.

I enjoyed trying everything. I'd never get a chance to try fencing or archery if it wasn't for this. It was really fun experience.

Trying to coordinate everything, it can be really hard to balance.

I'd like to keep my personal life private. In reality, I know that's not possible. In the present, I'm trying to pretend it's possible.