Trying Quotes

As a parent you walk around trying to be perfect, but you don't have to be perfect. That's the key. You just have to be faithful, and when I say faithful I mean you have to give your all.

Hollywood is a bit of a publicity game where it's constantly trying to portray things and put up this image and I was not interested in that.

Man eternally tries to get back to an organic past that has slipped just beyond his reach.

Invariably, what I'm trying to do is more ambitious than the budget, but we manage to do it somehow.

If you are unwilling to defend your right to your own lives, then you are merely like mice trying to argue with owls. You think their ways are wrong. They think you are dinner.

Once you play something, then you get 20 more of those. So I've tried to avoid getting stuck. I try to take roles that are the opposite of the last thing I did as much as I can.

I try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can't stand.

People are bound to get excited when they see a ten-million-ton starship trying to fly down the street.

It is a mistake trying to cheer up camels. You may as well drop meringues into a black hole.

People like that don't need a reason apart from "because I can". They have a nightmare and try to make it happen.

I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a head full of goblins.

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

I'm just trying to keep myself in basketball shape and take care of my body while I can.

I try to make the set as relaxed and fun and stress-free as humanly possible, while still having control over things. It's usually tension that hurts a performance or makes it seem self-conscious.

If you look at government policy generally, what government tries to do in all instances is to make sure that we take care of all elements that might relate to a particular issue.

Everybody in all countries tries to play jazz.

I try not to eat processed foods, well, ever. If it comes from a lab or a factory, I don't want it.

The Greeks got into Troy by trying, my pretties; everything's done by trying.

Not trying is the surest way of achieving nothing at all.

While my cousins were gang-banging, I was trying to learn what the Internet was about.

What I try to do - and I think this is the former librarian in me - is to get primary source material.

Barcelona is always a club that, at the beginning of the season, wants to win everything. I will try my best to do that with them and I'm sure I will help as much as I can.

15 Step is about how if you have mental illness and try to dance you look very funny. Whenever you see me dancing on stage, I'm imitating the mentally ill.

It's maybe a good thing to try to make music that feels reassuring in some ways - something that's got a good feeling, a good vibe about it.

Music is more difficult - try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they are political.

The inventor tries to meet the demand of a crazy civilization.

Sleep is a death, O make me try By sleeping, what it is to die, And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed.

Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical.

Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right; he will grow daily more and more right. It is at bottom the condition on which all men have to cultivate themselves.

When conflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

They're trying to make fuel cells a reality. They want to bring the hydrogen economy to the United States.

I don't like to stick to one formula. That gets boring. I get bored, so I want to try different ways of getting inside something.

No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth.

With whatever talent and resources I have, I'm trying to bring light to penetrate the darkness many people feel.

None of us is perfect, but the point of our writing is to try to become better, to learn something that we may not have already realized, about ourselves, about the world we inhabit.

Not many French producers work the American way. In France, the director decides everything, he has final cut. I'm trying to do things differently, without the Luc Besson solution.

Ive always got a novel under way, but if I try to work on it every day, exclusively, I falter. So I always keep more than one thing going.

When an objection cannot be made formidable, there is some policy in trying to make it frightful; and to substitute the yell and the war-whoop, in the place of reason, argument and good order.

These are the days that try man's heart.

If things are the way they are, why should I try to make them look different?

Trying to have wisdom without application is like trying to catch the winds without raising the sails!

I've been trying to work on my positioning and defensive game.

I was surrounded by nature and trying to come to terms with this blissful nature versus the inhumane mentality of war. People were being deluded by someone using the word peace

We always try to encourage more songs sung by Kim, because there are always requests for it. I certainly don't want to ball hog all the singing.

There's nothing stopping you from making movies. You can always make and try different things.

You have to. But I generally try - I'll creep in the back. I'll be outside. I'll pace around. I don't really get that nervous about whether people like [my films].

If you ever see the director pulling people aside, that means something's not working. Because you're trying to figure out why it's not working. But we would show up, we would talk about it.

I try to find meaning anywhere I can. It's the only way I know how to validate my existence.

I think life is all about having a balance, and trying to find equilibrium and not getting things one way or the other.

I'm going to try to keep getting better.