Trying Quotes

Even when there are no results. Things you can and can't do. Things you can and can't win. Even if there's none of that, I'll still try my hardest.

I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.

I can't handle the paparazzi. They're everywhere. One of them was in a dumpster trying to take my photo the other day. It was crazy!

Try to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would.

You have to experiment and that's gonna help your confidence so much when you step out and try things.

I love to compete. To me, business is the ultimate sport. It's always on. There is always someone trying to beat me.

They don't make you pay for the humor. It's up and down, but they're trying to give you as many laughs as possible in 2 minutes. They are the most honest comedians ever.

Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.

I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age.

We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.

The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.

Choosing sepia is all to do with trying to make the image look romantic and idealistic. It's sort of a soft version of propaganda.

You take a painting, you have a white, virginal piece of canvas that is the world of purity, and then you put your imagery on it, and you try to bring it back to the original purity.

Playing with decks, for me, has always been about trying new things. I make it a point to keep trying different things, keep pushing it a little bit at a time.

Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.

I'm trying to lead a good Christian life, so there ain't too much spicy to tell about me.

I will not know that day has come because I will not stop trying.

The devil has been defeated, stop trying to defeat him. What we have left is the fight of faith, and it's a good fight!

I'm not trying to get five medals. I'm not trying to be Michael Phelps.

Two things I'm trying to work on are openness and flexibility.

I was trying to control myself because I wanted to just park the car and jump out and do cartwheels. The next dream is to win the world championship.

I enjoy trying to develop a car and Mercedes are one of the biggest car manufacturers in the world.

If you're not making some mistakes, it probably means you're not trying hard enough.

In essence the whole thing of life is to just keep trying to do good things. Just do good things for people.

We're going to keep trying to strengthen the American family, to make them more like the Waltons and less like the Simpsons.

I'm not a big dreamer. I never have been. I remember fragments of my dream, and I try to take a traditional sort of approach to researching this project and doing preparation for it.

Even experimental composers, revolutionary composers, self-styled radicals are, in writing revolutionary music, recognizing the music that preceded them precisely by trying to avoid it.

Sometimes the most helpful thing you can do is to stop trying to be helpful.

Defensive backs are always trying to kill me, so I'm trying to get them first.

And they'd [the Death Eaters] love to have me," said Harry sarcastically. "We'd be best pals if they didn't keep trying to do me in.

You can't go through life trying to please everyone.

Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.

Hey, our Founding Fathers wore long hair and powdered wigs - I don't see anybody trying to look like them today, either... But we do look to them as role models.

It's such a psychological and mental game, golf, that the smallest wrong thing at the wrong time can distract you from what you're trying to achieve.

I think the moment you try to make a movie for kids, you make garbage.

I've always been an unselfish guy, and that's the only way I know how to play on the court and I try to play to the maximum of my ability - not only for myself but for my team-mates.

Everyone can cook. If you try. If you put a little love into it.

If someone was to tally the number of human hours wasted in business by people trying to accomplish objectives without being given the authority to do so, we would all be appalled.

I try not to say exactly what songs are about sometimes, because I feel like it ruins it for people.

In all my work, I'm interested in trying to understand the human consequences of government policies.

I had a lot of frustrations, and I was drinking far too much, and I was just trying to survive and this is what came out of it.

Never say never! I'm open to trying new things.

If you work with your mind, instead of trying to change everything on the outside, that's how your temper will cool down.

I am flawed, deeply flawed. I didn't invent the [doping] culture but I didn't try to stop the culture and that's my mistake, and that's what I have to be sorry for.

I'm not trying to create an image or a persona. I'm just singing because that's what I know how to do.

I need to decide whether to apply for college or delay it for a couple of years while I pursue some more acting projects. Right now I'm trying to sort things out, so I can make the right choices.

Stop trying to find something in food that will make you feel better.

Try never to speak of your enemies by name. Any publicity is still publicity - and there are those for whom your disapproval constitutes a recommendation.

Being a leader, it's the art of trying to find the balance, the right times with each individual and what they need at that moment. It requires looking outward as opposed to looking inside.

I don't know what it takes to make marriage work, but I'm going to keep trying until I get it right. I haven't given up on love or marriage.