Trying Quotes

If you're lookin' for a helpin' hand, try the one at the end of your arm.

I just like the idea of trying something that no one's ever tried before, and I really wanted to know if it was possible.

Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire... Life is wanting.

If you don't fall down, you aren't trying hard enough.

My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.

I'm trying to maintain a level of realness that my fans can appreciate.

There's no such thing as failure if you just try.

Sometimes you try to make it happen instead of just letting it happen.

I wake the dead. I bring Jackie Robinson and the Roosevelts to life. Who do you think Im trying to wake up?

Any time you try to apply conventional techniques to Donald Trump, you're going to be disappointed.

If I win, it's because of my natural ability and if I lose, it's because I wasn't trying so hard.

Trying to do better is trying to be better than you actually are, and I don't think you can do that.

Take your time, teach what you love, be unabashedly you, and try not to compare yourself to someone who's been teaching longer than you.

I decided I was sick of trying to figure out what everybody else wanted, and I should just decide what I want, and be honest, and not spend all my time guessing.

You promote your films; it's part of your job. You do the magazine covers and stuff, and then I try to live a really normal life. I definitely don't try to make it into any more craziness than it is.

Honestly, I do spend most of my time between films trying to get the next one made.

I've had meetings where a guy actually told me, "What we're trying to figure out is how we can control you." In the meeting, to me! Why do you want to control me?

I remember when my mother pointed to a stone, and she said this was the kind of stone people used to place on the feet of the baby girls to stop them trying to climb away and unbind their feet.

By the time you get to your ball, if you don't know what to do with it, try another sport.

- I hate to break this to you, Cameron, but you are only human. - Shh... I've been trying to keep that under wraps for years.

If you are trying to balance the scales of justice and equality in all your work relationships, you're going to come up short.

Don't try to control what's outside. Be at peace with what's inside.

Superstition is just fantasy with attitude; it's a way of erroneously trying to control events.

Try to keep ourselves open, no matter how closed the world tries to make us sometimes.

I think everyone is trying to figure out who they are and their own thing.

I just didn't have time to deliver a Buffalo accent in a day, so I didn't even try it.

Where is your bliss station? You have to try to find it.

The next time you’re tempted to groan, you might try to laugh instead. It will extend your life and make the lives of all those around you more enjoyable.

I'm not an extravagant guy ... I don't like going over the top on anything. I have what I need and I try to keep it that way.

I like finding a great shot and then just staying with it for a long time, not trying to pump things up with some kind of artificial energy by cutting.

But there's no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.

I write about what interests me. It's very dangerous when you try to satisfy an audience.

You can drastically increase your chances for success if you try lots of things and bring the best forward.

I just try to think of all the things that could go wrong so in that split second when it happens, maybe your body reacts in a way where it protects you just a little.

If possible, try to find a way to come downstairs that doesn't involve going bump, bump, bump, on the back of your head.

If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.

I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self the more you do.

Try to bring me down, but you will never succeed because I'm always moving upward. Maybe not before, but now ... I am.

The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.

Watch the mouth, it reveals what the eyes try to hide.

We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome.

Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.

Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It's all a bit boring, like ballet: a minority thing kept going by a minority group.

In this world,” Franny once observed, “just as you’re trying to think of yourself as memorable, there is always someone who forgets that that they have met you.

He was trying to save both his faces.

Complacency doesn't make sense for a guy trying to redefine normal.

We are not inviting—we are guarded. Most of our energy is spent trying to hide our true selves, and control our worlds to have some sense of security.

Get your sense of outrage back, and your sense of defiance and spirit back, and try to put these pieces together and confront the excesses of empire at every turn.

When I record, it feels like I'm in a bubble. There's nothing else in my head right then. It's just that song, and I'm trying to really sound like what the song is about.

Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.