Trying Quotes

Over and over again, I'm trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself.

I'm just trying to age as ungracefully as I can in front of the nation.

For me, my faith informs my life. I try and spend a little time on my knees every day. But it all for me begins with cherishing the dignity, the worth, the value of every human life.

Im a B-list celebrity trying to give it an honest look. They see me do actual work. ... I try to be the viewer with a microphone.

I've been walking to school and trying to figure out what's going on there; some of the production and songs are so ridiculous. I want to get inside that.

Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.

When I was young, I thought I was a god. Now, I just basically work on staying humble. My priorities changed. Just to be able to try to change them - that was frightening to me.

I can talk about humility, but I'm not humble. I mean, if you say, I'm humble, you've just contradicted yourself. But I'm trying to be, man, I'm trying so hard.

I had two older brothers, so I was always competing with them. The guys I grew up with on the golf course, when I was 13, they were 15 or 16, and I was always trying to beat them.

I guess I'm trying to write stuff that I, as a viewer, would connect to.

If anxiety is the major force of our contemporary condition, a lot of poetry - including my own, mostly - sort of tries to escape that, fly off into magical thinking or bewilderment or whatever.

There's something really precious in that - if you try to tame something that's meant to be wild you wind up jeopardizing the nature of why it exists.

Women innately have this weird thing where they try to have a perfect persona - to look perfect, be perfect, act perfect, have their kids look a certain way. Women put so much pressure on themselves.

I've never just been able to be alone, and I'm obsessed with being alone and hearing my thoughts. I'm trying to take this alone time — the five minutes I do have a day — to learn as much as I can.

Maybe it's your time to lift off and fly You won't know if you never try.

I try to be good to myself. Look, we're human and people have differences.

You have to have sympathy for the villain. Even the most disgusting ones, you have to find something to connect with. I try to put as much of myself in every single character that I play.

I try to find something in everyone that I play - even the most heinous ones. You have to find something that is real and vulnerable about everything that you play.

The Czech movies, the quality movies, are trying to show the life in the country as it is, in an entertaining way, while in America, the majority of movies are wonderful fairy tales.

[Andy Murray] tries to get you to do a lot of different things. He tries to throw you off by giving you some slower balls and some harder balls.

Why is everyone trying to tell me that when you get older it gets better?

To have a complete outfit designed, for me, is easier than trying to find pieces that work together.

I think that when you're 5'4" and 150 pounds and you love to chat and you have a blog about shopping, trying to maintain a tiny bit of mystery where you possibly can is not a bad thing.

Eventually, the time of action must come. When this happens, be a winner! Don't settle for mediocre results. Don't try to stay even. Go for it all!

See, Quentin, that’s why you should wear a cup before trying to assassinate someone.

Never take no for answer, and try to make films that turn you on.

If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?

The life you live in front of an audience is like an altered state - it's not totally real. I'm always, even in the course of one day, trying to find ways to balance both sides.

I like embracing kind of normal forms but am always trying to approach them as if no one's ever done that before. As if I'm literally the first person to ever write a book.

Be confident and comfortable with yourself. If you know us, we are definitely not shy, and never try to be anything we are not. No matter what anyone tells you, you are perfect, just the way you are.

I'm really fortunate because, in my career, I haven't had to deal with anybody trying to make me something I'm not.

I try to consider people's perspectives and not just my own.

In a ballet company, you're trying to create unison and uniform when you're in a cour de ballet.

Once I became a professional, maybe 19 or 20, I really started to try to figure out who I was, as a woman and as an individual.

It is no coincidence that the words 'trying' and 'dying' are only a few letters apart.

Kids chase the love that eludes them, and for me, that was my father's love. He kept it tucked away, like papers in a briefcase. And I kept trying to get in there.

Violence has not really been an issue. Even in my wildest hopes, I wasn't trying to get violence in.

The TV industry works in this crazy system where everybody's trying to get the same actors at the same time.

My son is a better dancer than me. I always try to encourage him in his endeavours.

Look, I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush. I'm not trying to return to Reagan-Bush.

Certainly, no church should be involved in trying to set the affairs of the nation.

I suppose I felt guilty not to be doing something more important, more political. So in a way I am trying to use the company for these other activities.

There's a fairly extensive network of musicians on tour who are all trying to stay sober, and we generally reach out to each other and offer support when and where we can.

There are some public figures who are very private and almost hide behind their work. I try to be as open as possible.

For me my biggest inspiration is trying to make music that effects me as much as the music made by my heroes.

My biggest concern is trying to keep crazy Republicans out of office.

All I want to do with my life is try and make music that I really love, and so every day I try and work on music.

I don't think too much about how it might exist in the world in a commercial sense - I more just try and focus on making music that I love and trying to put it out into the world.

If we try to 'protect ourselves', our nation-states begin to look like prisons.

Automatically everybody thinks of me as an actress who is trying to sing. And if I weren't me I'd probably think the same thing.