Trying Quotes

I think it's bad for human beings to be artists. It's awful. You want to do something but you're constantly trying to decide what you want to do. Let's just say it's no place like Hawaii.

I try to focus and compete and do positive things for the sport.

I try not to eat too much fast food but still go for hot wings occasionally. As I get older, I have to pay more attention to my diet. My favorite food is jerk pork.

There's a lot of great Olympians, but for me, I try to prove myself as one of the best - and that's the key thing.

I want to stay involved in athletics; I want to encourage kids to take part and try to grow the sport.

There are things that bother me. I try not to let them, but they do.

You need to eat what's local. So that's what I'm trying to do - just be as close to nature as possible.

I've always kind of been in the middle of every room, trying to get people together, no matter what color they were.

We are trying to reinvigorate our stagnant energy sector, to create avenues for new wealth. Clean energy innovation, job creation and energy independence should be common ground for all Americans.

I'm the guy that's trying to break up that monopoly to introduce free enterprise and competition to the energy sector.

After all, we are not promoting welfare. We are promoting work. We are not pushing for more entitlement programs. We are pushing for more enterprise. We are not trying re-distribute existing wealth.

If you look at my career over the past twenty years, I've always been trying to look around corners for low-income communities of color.

I just wanted to stop and try to get some perspective. [ A Period of Transition] it was just a matter of wanting to review the whole thing...to try and get some relationship to what I was doing.

I wanted to find out why I wasn't getting off on what I was doing and try and make some sense out of the evolution of it.

Beware of being a religious poseur, trying to live up to a dramatized version of yourself.

If you would try out a preacher, send him to preach to farmers: if he cannot make the grade there, let him reconsider his call - or maybe he needs to be converted.

I try not to read the blogs or what people say about me. Because that's what brings everybody down - no matter what you do, you're always going to have haters.

I really do try to watch everything I say. Because one little tiny slip, and it's like the world is coming to an end!

For me it comes down to one thing: I'm trying to follow my own nature.

I try to update as much as possible. You don't want to be in the past.

I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.

I stay away from the elf roles; I stay away from playing a leprechaun. All the roles I try to do are something that an average actor would do.

Life is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season.

I have come to kill you."The death's heads shrugged. "You have come to try.

Try to sleep. Tomorrow’s coming, whether we worry about it or not.

The more I try to catch up, the farther I fall behind.

I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.

My problem might be that even if I did go home, I wouldn’t belong there, among people who give without thinking and care without trying.

I shift from one foot to the other, trying to get a good look at him. When I finally do, I look away. His eyes were already on me, probably drawn by my nervous movement.

There are times where I am trying to make the big play before I even catch the football.

A man trying to escape never thinks himself sufficiently concealed.

In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a man, and I cry to all: “Help me!

I'm going to try and focus on doing more theater things. I come from that background. I honestly feel so comfortable being on stage, it's really weird. It's one of those things I love to do.

I kind of put myself in this mindset where time doesn't really exist that much. There is no past or future. I just try to stay really in the present.

Everyone always says that having kids is messy and sloppy. It's true, but you as a parent have to try to bring some boundaries and control over that experience, or you'd have out-of-control kids.

Black coffee is the latest fad I have picked up. Then there are my endless cups of chai! I'm trying to cut down and keep it to no more than three cups a day.

I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.

It's almost a standard tactic, really, to try to minimize any effort that people in the entertainment business or in any public occupation make to express themselves.

It's important for all writers to try to figure out what they're doing.

I think there's a gradient that goes from science to art and magic is the middle ground. I think that we're all trying to understand and define the world around us but often it's experimental.

Each story has a different approach for me and I try to work with lighting that will tell you visually the story better than if it was shot in available light.

I'm a big believer in free enterprise. If people want to try it, then go for it.

It's always interesting to see a director trying different things, and on top of it, doing it right each and almost every time.

For instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make more arbitrary use of colour to express myself more forcefully.

Everybody else is afraid to fail. I do not really care because when I fail, I try something new.

I talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.

You cannot believe how hard it is to try and raise money for a film. I did it for six years and it was such a failure.

When there's an important tournament going on, I try and stay in a bubble. It's easy that way because then you don't have to worry about anything else.

Most successful entrepreneurs share their knowledge as a way of giving back. They do not demand compensation. Those who do are usually trying to take advantage of you.

A [reformed] vampire ... mostly tries to make reparation for his previous evil by doing good deeds-most commonly, apparently, going into the crime solving business.