Trying Quotes

Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better. But don't be disappointed when they are not; it helps them to keep trying.

Maybe it's time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.

He's just always positive. He's always smiling and he's always trying.

I'm always trying to do something different and trying to keep myself amused.

The key is to keep improving. I'm not there yet. I know I have to keep trying to improve and keep trying to get faster.

I was a bit of an outsider in the hip-hop world because I was a scratch kid and people weren't necessarily trying to hear that all the time.

I'm taking my time trying to transition because the Aaron Carter you saw back then - now [I'm] a completely different person.

When I go to set, I try to make it a warm, inviting and happy set. We're all coming to work creating something, hopefully, beautiful together.

I'm constantly trying to find something that's different from me, whereas some actors do the same thing, again and again. That's not for me.

I'm really focused on These Days and I'm trying to take it as far as I can - I feel like it's a strong body of work. I just want to give it the ame kind of attention I give all my projects.

I try to be open with everybody, try to make everybody feel welcome and make them feel like, hey, I'm an easy person to talk to, get along with.

I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.

Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what's important to you, does not make you weaker.

I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to the formal aspects of their work.

Don't try to lose weight. Take delight in gaining fitness.

Polls are frequently taken to try to tease out or determine likely directions and trends, but once taken, they belong to the past, requiring that new polls be taken.

The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.

Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.

I try to spend as much time as possible with God and my family. That's more important than anything I'm doing in baseball.

I'm privileged to have followed Sir Matt because all you have to do is to try and maintain the standards that he set so many years ago.

I don't know what to say when I have a crush on somebody. I kind of lose my words. I really try to start a conversation, and I can't. It's horrible.

I spent years trying to find some use for inheritance and virtuals, before I understood why that mechanism was fundamentally flawed and should not be used.

Don't try to prove anything about yourself to anyone. It isn't necessary. Your worth shines through to others- know your worth.

There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.

I'm not a politician, I'm not an economist. I'm just a simple Brian surgeon and a scientist who's trying to do my best every day.

I try not to deprive myself of anything. I don't do the low-carb thing or anything like that.

Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.

I've spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what's going on so that they have a chance of getting a fair shake from the connected and the powerful.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that you can't live somebody else's life for them. They have to make their own choices, and sometimes all we can do is learn to live with them.

I usually try on at least 20 pairs of jeans before I find something that looks good on me. And even then, I have a trustworthy friend tell me if my butt looks big!

Life is very short, try everything you've dreamed about (within the perimeters of sanity and the law) and regret nothing. Oh, and don't forget the sunscreen.

Honestly, I am not trying to discourage anyone from becoming an actress, but if you want to become one be prepared to face everything that comes - along with it

I always try to write a song to work things out with myself and I want to do it with a little punchline at the end, because I never want to remember anything bad in my life.

I love people who try to keep the world in control - because the world is inherently not in control.

I just want to try to ignore the scrutiny and all the distractions and just play hard basketball and let the best come... Improving game by game and trying to improve my game is what I want to do.

The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Your big picture will never be a masterpiece if you ignore the tiny brushstrokes. You're trying so hard to be successful that true success is eluding you.

The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with us in our daily conduct.

What you aim for, in the first place, is to be as good as you can possibly be. This is what I do, and I'm going to try to be the best in the world.

I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don't try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint them ordinary-ordina ry.

At times I can't help going for visual comfort. Sometimes a picture fills up your head, and you try to move the actors around to make that visual statement.

What's risky is living your life and never trying for anything and never doing something brave and never getting yourself scared.

I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.

Right now I'm just thinking about school and trying to get those grades and keep them up! In case I become a Norma Desmond when I grow up, I can have something to fall back on!

I just do what feels right. I think the great thing about getting to do what I do is that you can try out being a different person without having to screw up your life to do it.

My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.

It was not facing what life dealt that made you crazy, but rather trying to set life straight where it was unstraightenable.

I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.

We need to stop fighting Christian against Christian. I have no time for anything but trying to love other people. That is a full-time job.

No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.