Trying Quotes

I am exhausted by trying to get along with the Lord.

I'm a talker. I don't bottle things up. I always call my mum or a close girlfriend and try to talk things out.

That is why it is so important not only to have excellent treatment but also to try to get back the immune defense, because there you have a natural defense that takes place everywhere.

I try to take pictures on their own terms, considering the historical and social context from which they emerge.

I try to simplify things for the children. For instance, [I arrange] for them to have almost no dialogue, or to somehow give them very precise indications, because usually they ask for that.

I try to simplify things for the children.

I am just a choreographer, and I am trying to make productions, not dance concerts.

I'm trying to get out of my own way

I have to try different things to see what works best. Other people get impatient with that.

I am trying to get right with God. I'm sort of making a statement about the excessiveness.

I try to learn the most I can from every mistake.

It's a lifetime effort, trying to understand the way our minds work, and make it work in your favor and not against you.

I think my relationship with life has changed - I want to make more complex images than before. Complex in the sense that I try to put in a lot of information, sometimes contradictory information.

I am an architect. I try to feel the transparency in contemporary buildings and I try to understand the transparency in Zen poetry. I just want to mix all those things.

I am a postmodern romantic. I try to use their way to photograph, and at the same time, incorporate the problems that I feel in a country like Guatemala.

Most artists have experienced the creative block. We get stuck in our work. We beat our head against the wall: nothing. Sometimes, it is because we are trying something at the wrong time.

You've got to be in the moment and respond to what you're feeling. I try to simplify it as much as possible.

I think it's important how you spend your time. I try to make sure that I'm growing.

I just try to do the best job that I can, as an actor. Hopefully, that carries through. That's all I can do.

I'm still writing songs but leaving them a lot more open and not trying to control every nuance of it.

It's just like I get this identity crisis: my body doesn't want to write, my mind doesn't want to write. Nothing about me wants to write, but I force myself to sit there and try. Nothing happens.

I've been trying to bust into the comedy business my whole life. It's hard in Hollywood to do different things. I know this. It's a struggle.

I've got a lot of energy at my shows, I'm very performative; that gave me the idea, I want to try to translate that into a musical project, having the same energy I have onstage and on my album.

When I'm trying a new form- trying to do something I'm not used to doing, which was true of the novel.

I don't love all hip-hop, but I do relate to stuff like early Nas, 2Pac, Biggie, and MF Doom because they're also trying to escape a scenario.

It's not a very sane thing to try to be great all the time.

If you ain't holding, you ain't trying.

I run a tight ship, but I try and make it seem like I'm not doing that at all.

These things are sent to try us, but why me?

I try to avoid cheese, dairy and a lot of meat, but I do like them.

I am a compromiser and maneuverer. I try to get something. That's the way our system works.

If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer.

If the door is locked, try the window.

When the play is still evolving I try to be at rehearsal as often as possible, and part of that casting process. You find new things when the language is living in different people's mouths.

In the bedroom time I have generated thoughts, and then in the studio I take those thoughts and try to shape them into something.

I do love that discovery of when you're trying to figure out how to make something work, and it happens in a way that you didn't predict.

I think the major device for me is that narrator's voice. I'm always trying to find a different kind of form to tell whatever story it is, and I wish that weren't so, because it drives me crazy.

Whatever the style is, I want to have a sense that the writer is thinking, and really trying to get at something, and that there's a sense of discovery as the writing goes along.

I didn't go to America to be a star, but to try to reclaim my life.

Our life comes in segments, and we have to understand that we can have it all if we're not trying to do it all at once.

I really do think about the fact that every day counts. I believe that every individual counts, and so I believe that every day counts and I try not to waste it.

It is a very trying task for deceitful people, always to have to cover up their lack of sincerity and to repair the breaking of their word.

prayer is whenever we consciously try to get in contact with the numinous, the ineffable, the marvelous.

People will tell you that you cant do it, no matter what you are trying to do, so you just have to really keep at it.

I actually always try to have a moment in my show where I can just lay down on stage and talk to people for a little while.

I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King Lear.'

I do try to live every day as if it were my last, and it has worked for me so far.

I think most human beings, even if you're in a situation that's constricting or complicated or hard, they try to survive.

I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding.

I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.