Trying Quotes

I've got wonderful people I get to work with, and I'm trying to focus on that, instead of worrying about, Aw, who doesn't want to work with me? You focus on the ones who do.

I try to put my own history in my work.

I certainly struggled when I was little and didn't have an easy time, so I try to put that stuff in my work.

I try to do one to two days with no meat. I try to lessen my gluten. Those are things that I struggle with.

I was always an outsider, always standing outside, observing and trying to figure things out. Which is exactly what you need to do as a writer, I suppose.

I always try to create conflict and drama in my books; it's the engine of the novel.

I try to be a good, diligent actor.

I love 'Modern Family;' I don't exactly watch it when it's on, but I try to catch up on it when I can; it's one of my favorite shows.

If you get called on to help somebody pull focus to some good cause, that's good use of your fame. I don't try to avoid that.

Nobody is trying to save energy. We're trying to shift our use of fuel. Forget saving energy; if we get the right kind of energy, there are endless amounts.

One of the challenges was to make a cinematic movie about literally talking heads and to try to make it feel like something you want to see in a theater.

Sometimes I feel as though I'm trying to take a hit for the team so that other people then can move forward. I'm like, "Look, I just laid out all of my stuff, so what's the worst that can happen?".

In my experience when I do try to avoid something, it makes its way into the work anyway. To be in front of it and just make friends with it is easier for me.

I spent a lot of time trying to layer upon layer upon layer as I wrote. I think that's often the fear of a writer, that little nuances won't get picked up.

So much of my writing process is trying to eliminate any kind of shame or fear of the thoughts that I'm having.

I didn't pursue acting to become famous. I was actually just trying to make a living.

I try to keep in shape and I always have to check myself. Whenever I binge eat, sweets are the one temptation.

I don't rap like nobody, I don't try to sound like nobody.

[The producer told me:] "We can try one more record, and we'll see how that one does." Those records never did anything. My music never got mentioned. My color got mentioned.

If you try, you will find it impossible to do one great thing. You can only do many small things with great love.

I never try boost my career of the less fortunate somebody. Because if I gotta call and get press off of it - it ain't coming from my heart.

I just try to stay half way decent looking. Boxing's a rough sport and you get hit a lot.

We're not trying to take power away or rule anybody - we're just trying to get up from under the rulers.

We never look beyond our assumptions and what's worse, we have given up trying to meet others; we just meet ourselves.

Try to live as if there were a God

I will try to be non-violent one more day this morning, waking the world away in the violent day.

When trying to communicate with each other, a husband and wife should be careful to make sure their voices and faces agree with their words.

Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.

I don't feel like I have anything to prove, I'm not trying to be like 'this is me'. It's not anything like that, it's just fun songs, throwing my hair around.

I don't like to be feared, and I can't work in conflict, I'm very bad with conflict. I try to avoid it, it paralyzes me.

I went through about seven years of trying. And through artificial insemination. And through medication. And all of which was unsuccessful.

I wouldn't mind doing Broadway, but I am definitely trying to get a album out there first.

You try to leave and I will hunt you down." Relief poured through her, but she smacked at his thigh with the back of her brush. "Like a rabid dog? Very romantic.

I can smell blood, Elena,” Dmitri drawled, walking back into the room. “Are you trying to flirt?

Up until now, I had ideas that I wanted to try but didn't have the opportunity to do them.

It is hopeless trying to go forward when you are looking backward.

I was 47 when I got pregnant. I'd been trying for a couple of years and thought it would never happen.

I'd love to branch out but I have absolutely no interest in romance. I just don't. The thought of trying to write a rom-com ... it just completely skeeves me out. No!

one must find one's natural home, not try to construct it.

It seems as if when you try to do just one thing and nothing but, you can't do it at all. You do everything better if there's more than one thing.

Materialists try to live in the lower story NON-MATERIAL WORLD Subjective, Superstitious, Mental Constructs MATERIAL WORLD Objective, Scientific, Knowable Facts

The Sixties, of course, was the worst time in the world to try and bring up a child. They were exposed to all these crazy things going on.

Trying to out-guess Bonaparte; the thought makes my blood run cold.

I think Pope Francis is our Pope Francis. I mean, the point of him is that he's a global leader, and he's trying, I think he's embracing that role.

It's extremely hard to know what the economic consequences of any decision will be. And I'm not a, a, a financial analyst, so I, I generally don't try to make some kind of prediction about that.

I think every time you take on a new role, you're trying to help find that voice and you add your own bits and pieces along the way but with Noah [Baumbach] it's already done.

We must serve the people worthily, and not occupy ourselves in trying to please them. The best way, to gain their affections is to do them good.

The one who tries to get something for nothing generally winds up getting nothing for something.

When I try to sound like the contemporary sound, it never turns out that way. That's just me.

When I try to sound like the contemporary sound, it never turns out that way.