Trying Quotes

What you want to do is innovate on your product and your business model, management structure is not where I would try and innovate.

The role of the board is advice and consent. If the CEO does not lay out a clear strategy and tries to get the board to set one, it will usually end in disaster.

Developing a personal connection with anyone you're trying to do a big deal with is really important.

How do you create a film that can reach millions of people and engage them in the subject? You have to take risks and try something new.

The spiritual mind is always metaphorical. Spiritual thinking is poetic thinking. It's always trying to put a very diaphanous experience into words, realizing all the while that words are inadequate.

Art is an artifice that you try to make seem natural.

Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.

As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.

I try to stay clear of karaoke because it normally involves an excess amount of drinking.

I don't feel intimidated by any of the people I'm talking to or the situations I find myself in. I just try to make my nana proud.

There's a voice when I write. I speak everything aloud. My family is so accustomed to me talking to myself that often times they don't answer me when I am trying to speak to one of them.

I joke that I spent 38 years scouring the globe, going to war zones, trying to find the person with my exact birthday.

I don't want to try to force anything, because I'm really happy with Chickenfoot; my new record with them is phenomenal.

I think we all go through times in our lives when we decide, "I'm going to try something else." I tried filmmaking instead of painting, and I think I enjoyed it more. So I don't paint anymore.

I try. I fail. I try again. I fail better.

Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.

Certainly there are various trans-Islamic political movements, which try to appeal to Muslims in all societies.

I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.

I tend to go against the grain because when I start to see that everybody's trying to shock, I try not to. I just do stuff that's subtler, more emotional, and I think that shocks people.

I didn't belong when I was in high school. Now people are trying to buy lips.

You can't just try to be a performer. It's in your DNA. I really believe that it's either what you are or it's not at all.

I don't understand women who try to be glamour queens.

The people I find most beautiful are the ones who aren't trying.

You don't have to be the specialist on everything. You can try to inform yourself.

I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place. I try to do this as best I can while still protecting my writer self, which more than ever needs privacy.

...if you expect people to try to do things your way, you're going to have to give some hints as to what that way is.

I just think I'm better equipped to make a study of human personality than trying to get into the mind of animals.

But what I've learned is, when your adrenaline is flowing, you can do a lot. I'm not very physical, but once some punks were trying to break into my house and I chased them down.

I definitely try and wash my face twice a day, and I never go to bed with my makeup on. I mostly just wash my face and try to not touch my face because that's when you get pimples.

I'm sorry, okay, I'm not perfect, but I'm trying.

In a way, “failure” is just another word for “the journey,” for not being there yet but on the way. It’s the road we walk on to get wherever it is we’re trying to go.

The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please.

There were about ten years of trying, failing, trying again, suffering rejection, etc. My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the fourth book I wrote.

Superstitions are man's way of trying to control things he has no control over.

Even if you do make tons of new friends,” I told him, “try not to forget where you came from, okay?

So I just decided to relax into it, bumpy and crazy as it might be, and try for once to just go along for the ride.

And trying to break it down this way, to minor and major offenses, maybes and what-ifs, was like arguing over the origin of cracks in a broken egg. It was done. How it happened didn't matter anymore.

I waited. Because with Eli, he was never trying to get you to finish for him. He always knew where he was going, even if it took a little while to get there.

I understood now. This voice, the one that had been trying to get my attention all this time, calling out to me, begging me to hear it - it wasn't Will's. It was mine.

Pretend to be a delinquent?" I asked clarifying. "You can do it," Dave advised me. "Just don't smile, and try to look like you're considering stealing something.

Failing sucks. But it's better than the alternative." "Which is?" "Not even trying." Now he did look at me, straight on. "Life's short, you know?

There's this other half of him I don't know of, it's like he is trying to keep it a secret... if he would just let me inside so I can help.

I think if you're going to show a true representation of any one life, it can't be about any one thing. I try to see more of a full picture, with the romance just a single part.

You can't be emotional if you're trying to be a businesswoman.

The way I sometimes approach my work, when I look at a script for the first time, is to identify what the archetypes are and what the writing is trying to do in that context.

I write poetry to figure things out. Any time I’m trying to wrap my head around something, poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me.

I want to welcome folks to poetry, especially those who may have previously felt unwelcome; I want to celebrate everyone who is trying to make sense of this world through poetry the way I try to.

You can be an artist, work hard for your work and also share while trying to create community with other artists.

Part of what I try to do in schools is take poetry off of a pedestal and make it a little more accessible and approachable.

The first spoken word poem I ever wrote was when I was 14 and I wrote it because I was accidentally signed up for a teen poetry slam. Because I loved poetry I said that I'd try it out.