Trying Quotes

More than once I have been humiliated by my resemblance to God the father; He is always longing for the love of His children and trying to get it on the cheapest and laziest terms He can invent.

I approach a comedy the same way I do a drama. I try to make it as real as possible.

Well every moment, every project is different. I took a very slow approach to acting, trying to really work with people I could learn from. And I got something different out of each experience.

One forgets that one is one. I must try to remember this.

Advertising works most effectively when it's in line with what people are already trying to do.

I try to shrug it off as a minor annoyance that whenever I do something successful, every capitalist out there wants a piece of the action.

Google, I think, in some ways, is more competitive and certainly is trying to build their own little version of Facebook.

Do we spend most of our days trying to remember or to forget? Do we spend most of our time running towards or away from our lives?

The commitment had disappeared, and although he still watched the imagined glory of stealing, she could see now he was not believing. He was trying to believe it, and that’s never a good sign.

an expression of surprise falls from her face, though she's trying to keep it. it breaks off and she seems to catch it and fidget with it in her hands.

I try hard and aim big. People can hate or love my books but they can never accuse me of not trying.

When you're up for an award at the Oscars, try as you might, it's hard to concentrate on the show.

Living modestly in a suburban neighborhood while trying to support four children through private school is not extravagant or living large.

I loved watching documentaries and had wanted to try making one for years - I'd just put it off as other opportunities arose. But I felt like time was running out for me if I wanted to do it.

there are things you mustn't even try to explain. They either become trite or they tie you down to something that's only half true.

Don't let your life revolve around whatever you're trying not to do or feel. Live to experience, not to avoid.

Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future; it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present moment somewhat uncomfortable.

I try to attach myself to things around me so that they don't slip away.

I can keep learning about all the different technologies. It's my most telling characteristic. I'm interested in trying anything new.

I - I try to do as much as I can, wherever I am. So, at the farm, I'm always thinking of some new project, some new thing I can do.

It can often happen that motherhood can really stop a lot of women in their tracks and I wanted to try and keep working through that as much as I could.

I was not that pretty a girl and I was never pursued as a teenager or young woman, so I was used to having no shame and trying to get people to love me.

I'm trying to solidify a long-term career, because I have no other skills and no other abilities.

I try to get a degree of realism in my music.

I'll tell you, I've seen the lightning flash. I've heard the thunder roll. I felt sin-breakers dashing, trying to conquer my soul. But I heard the voice of Jesus saying still to fight on.

I try to not get to the point where one is making wallpaper, or simply painting money. I want to make sure that I am at least trying to weigh myself down, that there's a challenge each time.

I'm trying not to let the anger and the violence that erupt take over my life. I guess it comes with the growing process, I don't know. A little mellowing.

Think through whom you are trying to reach. Tailor what you do and how you do it to appeal to those communities.

The top players talk more now, and we have more meetings. We're just trying to get things better. But we still need somebody who could make a difference.

There are no secrets to running success,anyone who says there are is probably trying to sell you something.

From the time I could play the piano, I remember trying to write tunes. They were in my head, and I would just sit down and start noodling. Next thing I knew, I had written a melody.

Satan is ever present, trying to destroy our glory and remove our crown. One of his most powerful tools is discouragement. Don't let your discouragement make Satan rejoice.

We try to effectively free ourselves up to be creative, to think about what might be possible, to come up with truly innovative ways to enact our values-driven positions.

I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I want to try it again and again, and a lot of times my fellow musicians have to hold me back and say, "Nah, I think we got it."

I don't remember a voice On a dark, lonesome road When I started this journey so long ago I was only just trying to outrun the noise There was never a question of having a choice

I would also hope that no one would think about trying to amend the constitution as a political strategy.

I do want to direct, eventually. I don't know if it will be a short film or a music video or a feature, but I know that I want to at least try it and see.

There are obviously people who want to be very niche, but I think for the most part everybody is trying to reach a larger audience.

But as an actor you do want to challenge yourself and step outside what you have done in the past and that what I like to do, I like to jump around and try different things and stretch myself.

I have been trying to get the hang of not being proud but instead turning that into thankfulness. Really whatever we have to be proud about, it is something given to us by the Lord.

One thing I'm not is a moralistic filmmaker. I'm not trying to tell people what to do, and I'm not trying to lead.

I'm not trying to make the world a better place.

The good part of working in TV is it's like being a studio director in old Hollywood and approaching different genres. It's a chance to try out different styles.

I wouldn't adopt, but what I will do is give my time and go and try to be there for people.

There are many stories I've wanted to write that I'm simply not able to - sometimes I haven't found the way in yet, and it doesn't matter how hard I try.

If death is inevitable, one should try to die well.

Most of us die with our music underplayed...We should try to step out of our comfort zones and do the things we're capable of.

The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful.

I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.

Emerson, I am trying to live, as you said we must, the examined life. But there are days I wish there was less in my head to examine, not to speak of the busy heart.