Trying Quotes

I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.

I gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny how that works.

I hurt myself today to see if I could feel. I hurt myself, you said to try to make him feel. So I hurt myself again to see if he'd see me. I hurt myself again and no, he never could see me.

Anything a wife should do, I'm terrible at. Anything a mistress should do, I'll try.

That I want to try in life? There's a lot of things I want to try. There's never enough time to try anything. I would love to have a hobby. I have no hobbies.

I wasn't truly comfortable with myself until I was about 30. I spent so much time and energy wondering if I wasn't worthy, and trying to find people to validate me, instead of validating myself.

Whether I'm down or whether things are great, I try to stay the same person all the time.

The challenge is to translate the song into something that works on the stage. It's pop music, but I try to keep it as loose as possible.

One of the photographers was like, "Can you stop talking and try to look sexy for a minute?"

I have faith in the justice system, and what will happen will happen. I'm just trying to do the right thing.

Mary Joe Fernandez rarely has a bad loss. She never tries for stupid shots.

I'm old, and so busy with work, that I like to just stay home and get my sleep now. I try not to burn both ends of the candle.

What I have learned over the years is to try to stay in the moment. I want to feel it all because I've realized nothing lasts.

I would love to try action films.

I'm not really much into politics, because it's rarely discussed in my line of work, but I know that Barack Obama is trying his best, and that at some point down the road, he's going to get it right.

Two guys enter the cage and only one comes out the winner. It gets you pumped because you know the other guy is trying to finish you and you want to finish him before he gets his chance.

I've been streaky throughout my career, but I've been trying to become a more consistent hitter.

I try to be patient. I feel like the point of art is to go down within yourself and to pop up into other people. If you're lucky, all of a sudden you're like, "whoop!" You're in other people.

It is America, I don't want the government trying to control more of my life. I want less government control, and I think there are too many government regulations, laws and taxes on the books.

For each film, you try to create a whole world sonically, having a sense of identity through instruments used, or recording techniques.

While I'm quite happy and love doing the atmospheric and quirky stuff, the melodic stuff, I've done quite a lot of. It's also another reason why I try not to do two or three at the same time.

I try not to tune in to politics until it's two or three months before the election. Till then, it's like watching preseason football.

When someone goes, 'Oh, this group is really pissed off at what you said,' there's not a piece of my body that goes, 'Sweet!' That means I did it wrong. I'm just trying to make people laugh.

I also try to weigh my motives. Am I doing what I'm doing because it's what God desires, or because I'm afraid people will be disappointed if I don't?

I think what I find challenging is just trying to bring a truthfulness and a realism to a character.

I don't spend time wondering what might be next; I just focus on trying to savor every day.

I want to try out for Playmate actually. I talked to one of the photographers about doing test shots.

I like to try to hit all of my dives.

I try to be somewhat wary of fame, but I'm not wary of success.

I try to stay on an even keel. I get really fired up on occasion, but staying relaxed and under control bodes better for my game than getting out of control.

You're not always going to be perfect, but I always try to be.

I try to take what's given to me and then mold it to be a better football player.

I try to tell the truth.

If you make comedy, if you try and make comedy where no one gets upset or offended, you're going to fail.

The Big Five publishing companies are dinosaurs trying to survive in a post-meteor world. They won't.

I try to find my way in the world you know, I try to be somebody instead of just, make money off of everybody.

Now the whole worlds calling me a killer all I ever did was try to reach the kids with the realer.

I don't want to try to do music or satisfy anyone else's ears; it has to come from here first and what I love.

I’m a bit of a goofball; I don’t have a lot of censors and I don’t have a lot boundaries and I’m trying to remember that the world is watching.

I don't want to be at a point where I'm trying to steal the spotlight from the team or anyone else or make it seem like it's just about me.

Instead of spreading antagonism or hate, try to make a positive remark about something.

When it comes to how much attention something gets or how much attention it draws, I really kind of just try to expect nothing at this point. Whatever it turns into, it turns into.

I try my hardest to not let hate mail influence me - because anybody can put out hate, it takes a much stronger person to put out themselves.

I put a thong on a few months ago trying to be sexy. I've been looking for it but ain't seen it since.

I know that my audience is largely women, so what I try to do a lot of times is address their issues.

I try not to take on the weight or the burden of it. Once it's on the paper, I try to leave it, because I want to surrender to what I'm supposed to write about.

Don't try to strike everybody out ... stay back and just focus on the catcher's mitt, just throw the ball low in the strike zone.

Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don't know you know.

I am not on Facebook and on Twitter because the purpose of my life is to avoid messages. I receive too many messages from the world, and so I try to avoid that.

People were threatened, folks was put in jail just because we wanted people to try to register to vote.