Trying Quotes

You are not trying to find the answer to a question, you are simply trying to confirm something you desperately want to believe; That everyone is evil. ” Chantal

Never looking anyone in the eye when you're traveling on public transport, in case it's interpreted as a sign that you're trying to get off with them.

Always saying, "I tried" when you didn't really try at all.

Dreaming carries no risks. The dangerous thing is trying to transform your dreams into reality.

God, I am trying to recover my faith. Please don't abandon me in the middle of this adventure, I prayed, pushing my fears aside.

Comparing objects like cars, houses, clothes, and defining life according to those comparisons, instead of trying to discover the real reason for being alive.

My 20s were a time where I made it; my 30s were when I was away, confused, and trying to figure it all out.

When I first moved to New York I had been trying to work on anything and everything I could. From extra work and commercials to short and student films so I could learn in front of a camera.

A loving and kindly approach works between individuals, it works between groups and it would work between nations if nations had the courage to try it.

Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and try to be content with that.

It is a commitment to respect whatever life brings that we develop wholehearted determination to use discomfort as an opportunity for awakening, rather than trying to make it disappear.

There is no cultivation of patience when your pattern is to just try to seek harmony and smooth everything out. Patience implies willingness to be alive rather than trying to seek harmony.

Trying to run away is never the answer to being a fully human. Running away from the immediacy of our experience is like preferring death to life.

It's very much like a torture sometimes, the process of trying to get rid of an accent.

If you are looking for a producer, try to contact established producers. Don't let the fear of theft paralyze you, or you will never get anywhere with it.

It is fun to try figure out the things that really are real and the things that aren't.

You don't go to a comedy and try to laugh. You laugh in spite of yourself. You don't just come on stage and cry. Something has pushed you to cry.

Mostly in life people are trying not to have emotions.

As long as you try your best, that is all that matters. You don't have to be the fastest runner or top of the class.

Try to dwell on the people you'd like to love, instead of all the people you do loathe.

I am here for the goal, and the goal is to try to do it again.

Most of the time after the US Open, it is kind of like you are trying to finish strong. But to do it five years and maybe six is something that has never been done before, so it is a huge challenge.

I've been into golf, trying to get into the gym to stay somewhat fit. I've got two boys now, they're active kids.

I'm an elderly gentleman. I haven't been in a fight involving bodily contact in 60 years. Look, I fall trying to put on my underwear in the morning.

I find that the dead-end route is to try to describe what's going on in your mouth.

There's a small island, inhabited in the South Pacific that I will try to swim to.

Hollywood is not stupid, contrary to popular belief; it's really a lot of intelligent people trying to figure things out.

I try to preload as little as I can. I like to come to the set with minimal preparation.

Songs came first. I started out in 1965 trying to copy the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and the Stones, like most kids I knew. I'm still trying. Songs are hard to beat.

Try and identify where the money can go to create conditions for true systemic change.

When we're dealing with historic buildings, we don't replicate, but we try to be subordinate and be deferential to them.

Businessmen are always trying to advance their business interests, but they are not running for Prime Minister.

All we try to do is buy a dollar for 40 cents.

Try to pick a fund manager who has a well-defined strategy, has been through these things before, and go invest and stay with him.

Effective innovations start small. They are not grandiose. They try to do one specific thing.

We can't make people better by trying to eliminate their weaknesses, but we can help then perform better by building on their strengths.

Keep the boss aware. Bosses, after all, are held responsible by their own bosses for the performance of their subordinates. They must be able to say: "I know what Anne [or John] is trying to do."

Too many leaders try to do a little bit of 25 things and get nothing done. They are very popular because they always say yes. But they get nothing done.

I'm really working on trying to get that lifestyle aspect of the Emilio Pucci house to be as strong as possible.

In our show, we try to think about consequences, not about tricking the audience or hiding things to fool the audience.

I spent so many years trying to become an actor, trying to be a person that I wasn't.

I adore physical miniatures and try to use them as much as I can and have a bit of a fetish about that.

If you have a vision and you are trying to accomplish something, you have to be competitive, or things are going to slip by you.

History is not a nightmare from which. I am trying to awaken, but rather, a glorious tale which I wish to be cast in.

Whatever I think, whatever I try to do, life might just turn around and... and hitch up its pants and throw me a twenty-dollar bill.

I just try and do something good. But as a writer, you're slightly out of control.

I don't like the way some actors, when playing a nasty character, will try to grab hold of something good about them.

I'm constantly trying to figure out how to crack that mystery; how to make a novel that has a sense of immediacy of a short story. I try to do that and I'll try it again, but I'll never get it.

I try not to read my own books just because I would rather read somebody else.

I see how people boss other actors around to try to get a scene favorable to them. I absolutely just never engage in doing that. If someone's going to do it to me, I just let them have it.