Trying Quotes

As an actress, you want to try new things. You don't want to repeat yourself. That becomes more important to you, as you get older.

I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.

Know what it is that you are trying to find out.

But you cant shut everyone out. I mean you have to have someone to love. . .someone to hold on to. . . someone--

Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for your life to begin and start making the most of the moment you are in.

I'm trying to make God more relevant in our society.

What keeps me going? I guess it's just a desire to keep trying to contribute and do things in life.

I'm comfortable with my femininity, and I don't try to change what I look like just because I'm reporting on football at the end of the night.

The most important thing is to keep trying...

If I've learned anything, it's really just to stop trying to find answers and certainties.

I'll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is - oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!

I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades.

Always try to turn a marketing disaster into a marketing opportunity.

No one knows what they can do until they try.

Stop trying to squeeze professional results out of recreational hours.

The only thing on my mind right now is trying to win the whole thing.

I'm not doing well. Don't try to talk about this to my sister Liz. She will know it sooner or later.

I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.

Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death.

You can't spend as much money as I have, even if you try. I've been trying.

What's your heart telling you to do? I don't know.' Maybe, you're trying too hard to hear it.

In my work, I'm passionate about trying different things and being okay if I mess up. Now I'm trying to bring that into my own life.

I'm not recognized very often, and if I am, it's a die-hard Veronica Mars fan. Which is usually flattering and an honor. I really try not to think about it.

I try not to interpret things of the world into a single meaning. Rather, I try the opposite.

The only way to beat the competition is to stop trying to beat the competition

Stop trying to make this life into what it cannot and never was intended to be: jennah. Only then will it stop breaking your heart.

I learned from my mom that you should always try to enjoy life, no matter what.

I often find myself writing about people taking care of each other, or trying to. And often seem to write about situations that are too big for the characters.

But I tried, didn't I? Goddamnit, at least I did that.

We want to be making clear that if [Donald Trump] tries to deliver on his word, that we will be there to say no.

I try to create a place of disorientation.

Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people.

Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.

James - "Are you paying attention or just trying to make me look like an idoit?" Elizabeth - "Oh, I'm definately paying attention. If you look like an idiot it has nothing to do with me.

Don't try to teach a pig to sing. It doesn't work, and it annoys the pig.

In the writing, I'm just trying to go deeper, emotionally, and learn more about myself and reveal more and find a way to connect with people in new ways.

Fear will try to keep you from taking that first step. Don't give in to fear, do it afraid.

You only live once, so I try to say yes to everything.

Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying.

If you get raised up having everything you want and then get put out in the world and try to live your own life, you've never had anything to train you how to live.

I'm a one-woman guy. I think that if you can find someone you want to spend the rest of your life with, you should marry them instantly, and try to stay married.

I feel the one sensible thing you can do is try to live in a way that pleases you. If you don't hurt anybody else, what you do is your own business.

The Bible isn’t about people trying to discover God, but about God reaching out to find us.

All God's creatures are His family; and he is the most beloved of God who tries to do most good to God's creatures.

I say 'try'; if we never try, we shall never succeed.

Before you try to convince anyone else, be sure you are convinced, and if you cannot convince yourself, drop the subject.

Only now that I loved a grenade did I understand the foolishness of trying to save others from my own impending fragmentation: I couldn’t unlove Augustus Waters. And I didn’t want to.

I try to pace myself and not work for the sake of working and stick to what inspired me prior to receiving recognition.

It's no good telling somebody they're trying too hard. It's very much like ordering a child to go stand in a corner for a half hour and never once think about elephants.

I accomplish more when I rest wholly in the labor of Jesus than I do when I frantically try to do the work for Him.