Trying Quotes

You are trying not only to reach your potential but to move beyond it. If you are not in the best shape you can be, these things simply become more difficult to achieve.

Teach you to try marrying me, you idiot!

I can try to disable it," I said, "but if I mess up, this whole apartment is going to fill with gas. We'll die." Thalia swallowed. " I trust you. Just... don't mess it up.

The more you know, the more you try to change them, and that can be disastrous.

Leo waited while the fish centaur put away his supplies. Aphros's lobster-claw horns kept swimming around in his thick hair, and Leo had to resist the urge to try and rescue them.

Leo could run pretty fast when someone was trying to kill him. Sadly, he’d had a lot of practice.

I (Percy) set Nico on guard duty with Beckendorf and the Stoll brothers, figuring he'd be safely out of the way. ... "What's happening?" Nico demanded, trying to climb up next to me.

'Are you guys busy?' Juniper asked. 'Well,' I said, 'we're in the middle of this game against a bunch of monsters and we're trying not to die.' 'We're not busy,' Annabeth said.

I racked my brain trying to remember the names of all of Nut’s five children. Bit difficult without my brother, the human Wikipedia, around to keep track of such trivia for me.

I'm not usually an eavesdropper,but i dare you to try not listening if you hear your best friend talking about you to an adult.

The places where we went, it was not safe to be any bigger than a two-person crew. In Afghanistan, the only way for us to operate was to try to fly under the radar of everyone.

I try to avoid political ties.

I don't advocate civil disobedience. I do advocate the role of an informed citizen to try to overturn when a court makes a mistake and gets an issue wrong.

Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it. I don't know all the keys to success, but one key to failure is to try to please everyone.

I'm not going to get into a debate over the non-essentials. I won't try to change other denominations. Why be divisive?

I think any apparent contradiction in scripture is my limited capacity. Me trying to understand God is like an ant trying to understand the Internet. I don't have the brain capacity.

The key is really just saying my brain isn't big enough to figure out why everything happens. It would be like an ant trying to understand the internet.

You can’t force yourself to trust. So you put all your doubts in a little box and bury it deep and then try to forget where you buried it

Trying to understand women is a tall order period.

I always try to entertain folks with good clean fun and stories from my youth.

What I would tell young players is that as you get older, the best thing you can do is try to have other interests and have opportunities.

I'm just trying to think what other sequels there were. There was the James Bond movies and not many. I think sequels have become a recent idea of franchising.

I never try to force poems into a collection simply because they were written/published within a certain period of time. They will eventually find their perfect home.

The business is so driven by money, everyone's trying to get it right.

Crassly put: When I write, I am trying not to bore myself and my readers.

If you don't talk to strangers, your life is so limited. If you're careful about what you eat, you'll never try anything adventurous.

I'm not trying to prove anything.

Despite a lot of people thinking that everything gets more and more difficult, I always assumed that people are going to be "Oh, at last you buckled, you're trying to be commercial."

When you're in the studio, you've got a narrative for what goes on, you might switch on a bit of gear and it might not work as you intended or come out a bit wrong, and you try and exploit it.

I realize Im an ambitious guy, but I just try to take things as they come, you know, for the most part.

I'm try[ing] to catch up on my work and you know I keep my eyes on the road, but I'm a busy man.

I didn't drink at all in school, so when I went to college, I went nuts. I was trying to catch up on all the partying I missed out on.

I really make a point of never worrying, or trying not to worry, about the way I'm perceived. You'll go crazy otherwise.

I think my thing is that I try and pick up on things that other people have maybe not picked up on.

Trying to execute that kind of intricate staging in the West Wing at the same time you're doing intricate dialogue - it's like patting your head and rubbing your stomach!

If people try to push me over into the category of not being a major success, I can think to myself, "Well, of course I'm not. I just started!"

I decided to not just be about protesting or speaking out against certain things, but actually trying to get things done. That has been tremendously fulfilling for me.

Whatever instrument I play, I always try to keep it unreal.

One of the billions of things I love about Beyonce: The harder she tries to come on crazy, the less crazy she sounds.

Short answers seem like you don't care even if you are trying to answer. I get the same flack for my short texting.

When you lock a movie's release date and then move it two months, it's just not good. It's good for everything but the cast, crew, and people who are creatively trying to make a film.

Never try to have the last word. You might get it.

Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it? Was it worth doing?

I'm using myself as a typical 20th century model as I'm trying to make sense out of the world around me.

I don't like when people try to put a spin and have a second agenda to make a person look bad.

When I moved to Stanford I began to pursue the line of research I have been following ever since, namely trying to understand the larger implications of fractional quantum hall discovery.

I just try things and whether people like it or if I find it successful or not, I just do it.

I shoot a lot of video, first of all, whatever I think is interesting, just my travels; hard to say why. If something looks good, I take a picture or try to shoot it.

The first place I try to go when I have free time is the museums. I'm a big museum person.

The big thing is I try not to repeat.