Trying Quotes

Patience, discipline - giving everything on court... This is what I'm trying to bring in every single match.

A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.

I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a Mozart of rock music.

I would ditch school if my CD was scratched up or I couldn't get batteries. I wasn't trying to get on the bus and not be listening to music.

I'm trying to find a little joy and happiness, a lot of giggles - and maybe some pretty shoes.

Trying to meet new women, it's always a little more difficult as opposed to calling somebody I knew that's single and trying to rebuild that connection.

It was trying to break down the stereotypes and it was the kind of thing where, for the first time, women were on a par and not seen as just objects. Though girls were objectified still.

I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

I had a chance to choose a couple different places and, well, I grew up - I was a small-town kid from Illinois, so No. 1, just trying to win a championship for my home state.

It's not about failure it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal.

My pet peeve is when people criticize things when they're just trying to have a conversation.

I look for my opportunities, not trying to go outside of my genuine realm, because leadership has to be genuine and authentic.

After trying Atkins and doing Nutrisystem a few times, now I'm just focused on maintaining a healthy lifestyle rather than dieting.

I'm always trying to learn and grow, so my diet has, over the years, evolved.

I'm trying to do the paleo diet. No carbs.

I got sick of trying everything. I tried every single thing imaginable - diet, exercise. I even bought a house on the health spa property, and I still gained weight.

There are so many people that would be lined up to get their cut that even trying to finance a reboot of 'Frasier' would be nightmarish.

We are ramping up security in the United States but also looking at visa applicants, visa waiver applicants - and looking at travel manifests on the airplanes trying to come into the United States.

Trying to constantly get yourself into movies is extremely stressful and sometimes just impossible.

I love Pinterest! Pinterest is absolutely phenomenal when you're trying to come up with a costume design.

I don't feel I'm trying to make art. I'm trying to make interesting things. People can relate to that.

People just don't like me, and it's unfortunate, because I'm trying to get people to come down and visit New Zealand. I'm an ambassador for New Zealand... it's kind of sad.

Technology breeds crime and we are constantly trying to develop technology to stay one step ahead of the person trying to use it negatively.

I'm trying hard to keep my Australian accent. My mom would disown me if I didn't.

I'm now the elder in the position of doling out wisdom and trying to mend fences.

I just love cars I've been like that since I was a kid. It's an infatuation because we grew up poor. Cars was something we were always trying to get.

I find people interesting. People trying hard are interesting. People with a passion are interesting - whether it's old cars or taxidermy or knitting.

I've spent a lot of time in a rock n' roll band trying to fight off the fact that I was old enough to rent a car. And it's all sort of rushed in at once now. And I like it.

Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.

No connection to the average voter - Clinton has an air of superiority. Despite her wide smile and pleasant appearance, she is envisioned as someone who is trying to hide something all the time.

Androgyny is not trying to manage the relationship between the opposites it is simply flowing between them.

Trying to make something as tricky as 'Room' really believable is extremely hard, and it largely rests with that relationship between the actors and the director, and the director and the crew.

I was trying to pay the bills with poems, and it was easy to memorize my poems, because I'd be riding my bike in California trying to memorize them before going on stage at a poetry lounge.

I realised I'd spent a lot of time in my poetry trying to find a way of talking about that whereof we cannot speak.

Poetry is really about your mental state or intellectual, and where you are, and you're trying to evoke that, explain it to yourself, whatever, you're trying to dig into it, analyse yourself.

I studied poetry in college and for a year in an MFA program. As time went on, my poems got more and more complicated. What I was really trying to do was tell stories.

Men do not fail they give up trying.

For much of the year, you're just trying to maintain your fitness. It's not often you get a lot of time to really concentrate on improving it.

We are living in very challenging times. Pressured in the workplace and stressed out at home, people are trying to make sense of their lives.

My future's about trying to be a better man.