Trying Quotes

I spent the first years working in Jordan trying to learn as much as I could about what was taking place in the country, about where there were gaps in the development process that needed attention.

It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.

Robert Louis Stevenson...was a storyteller, that's what I'd like to be, that's what I'm trying to be

What are you up to?" "I was trying to climb that tree. But I fell. Now I'm bored.

He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.

I'm not trying to be a different weight. I want to be a different body type so that I'm not an apple. I just want to be a pear!

I have superfine, superoily hair, so my struggle is always trying to get the volume I want. I end up not doing much with it ever.

I was born a jackdaw; why should I try to be an owl?

We were born and we die. In between, I think we try to live as best we can.

How and when to try new things and to what degree are critical... Too soon and too radical a change and you may not master anything or develop a style.

[I'm often called a Deviant Calvinist] but that only goes to underline the point I'm trying to make about the need to broaden our account of the tradition!

The problem in modern America is not that an individual can't make a difference, but that nearly all of us are too distracted to even consider trying.

I'm trying to understand my life. The one that I've experienced.

I think you should do rehearsal and work at it, but when the camera rolls, you should be ready. Try to make it good the first time.

You always try to find the right style for the movie. That's the key.

What I've experienced, I'm trying to put in a narrative form, I suppose, to say that it does make sense in this way.

I learn from everyone by observing traits that makes them successful and traits that bring them down, and try to incorporate only the best traits into my professional career.

I do not tweeze my eyebrows. I've been letting them grow out for years. I try to fill them in wherever nature has abandoned me.

Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we're not willing to be honest with ourselves about what we feel, we don't evolve.

I'm learning that when you get out into the world and you try things, it's amazing that you'll find how strong you are when you have to be.

The biggest obstacle that you can have is all inside your head, so I try every day to be optimistic and keep dreaming about great things!

It's time for us as a country to try to come together in ways that freedom was really meant to be.

I'm not one of those people who is trying to act like I don't sleep. I used to be like, "Oh, I only need four hours." Now I need exactly 5 1/2 to 6 in order to feel like I've done well.

I think I try to speak to the heart of the woman who I know is interested in growing into herself.

I truly understand that there is a lesson in everything that happens to us. So I tried not to spend my time asking "Why did this happen to me?" but trying to figure out why I had chosen this.

How can you say you're trying to spiritually evolve, without even a thought about what happens to the animals whose lives are sacrificed in the name of gluttony?

You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

I try to live in the moment and let that moment carry me to the next great place.

I think the traditional explanation is that demons just find someone, they pick on them and try to break down their spirit so they can... take control of their bodies. Why exactly? I don't know.

If you would have a successful life, less and less try to make things happen and more and more just let things happen.

Quim," she said, "don't ever try to teach me about good and evil. I've been there, and you've seen nothing but a map.

A duel is just two murders who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.

Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so deep in our genes that we can never get it out? Territoriality.

Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.

For, try as we may, we cannot get behind the appearence of things to reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in the things apart from their appearences.

The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.

And, as for what is called improving conversation, that is merely the foolish method by which the still more foolish philanthropist feebly tries to disarm the just rancour of the criminal classes.

In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar

When someone asks me to do something, something new, something I don’t know about, and if I haven’t done it, I’ll say yes. Just so I can try something new. You never know what you might like.

It is easy for us to tarnish God's character because He never argues back; He never tries to defend or vindicate himself.

Never try to help God fulfill His word.

Take care lest you play the hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right before you worship God yourself.

First try all other means, but if the wound Heal not, then use the knife, lest to the clean From the diseased the canker spread.

Because it's me playing the character, trying to find a way to make it believable and entertaining and interesting.

Be good and honest to your fellow man and try to do something good for somebody.

Tell me I'm a sinner I got news for you I spoke to God this morning and he don't like you! Don't you try and teach me no original sin; I don't need your pity for the shape I'm in

I'm not trying to twist people's heads around. I'm not trying to say, "Believe in me."

Farewell, my friend," Drizzt whispered, trying futilely to keep his voice from breaking. :This journey you make alone.

I'm trying to make all the characters change and grow, or regress.