I Try Quotes

#1. Jesus is my role model and He is whom I try to follow. Everything I do, I know I'm representing Him. Does it mean I do it well all the time? No. But I do ask for forgiveness for the times I bring Him a bad name.

Matt Diaz

#2. I wish what I do was all real. Some of it's real, some of it's an illusion and I try to blur the line between both, but unfortunately I've got to be honest with you. Taking a $1 bill and turning it into a $100 - unfortunately it's not real.

Criss Angel

#3. I'm not one of those girls who can think, 'Right, I'll put a scarf with that and a little brooch there and maybe a vintage jacket.' I'm so impressed with girls who look terrific in a little thing they picked up at the local charity shop. I just look scruffy when I try to do vintage.

Sophie Winkleman

#4. I try not to get caught up on how cool I am. That way nothing ever gets done. I'm always thinking about what I haven't done.

Ronda Rousey

#5. I try to tell myself I'm not schizophrenic. But when I'm not acting, I'm not alive. Everyday is just not heightened enough for me. I'm more focused, more interesting when I'm working.

Swoosie Kurtz

#6. Imagery is the most important to me when singing stories. I try to paint pictures with the words and decorate with little to no singing ... let the song do the work.

Shelby Lynne

#7. As a standup, I try to change the world. As an entertainer, I try to entertain. And as a lesbian, I try to pick up the prettiest girl in the room.

Lea DeLaria

#8. Look, some people talk about their personal lives a lot; I try not to, unless it's more of a generality.

Kate Bosworth

#9. I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.

Alan Dean Foster

#10. I try not to think about anything special while running. As a matter of fact, I usually run with my mind empty. However, when I run empty-minded, something naturally and abruptly crawls in sometime. That might become an idea that can help me with my writing.

Haruki Murakami

#11. On the weekend, I have a gym in my community. I try to do cardio. You just turn on some junk TV, and you don't realize what you're doing, and I love that.

Khloe Kardashian

#12. I try to neutralize my figures; I want them to be mythic and timeless. I want them to exist beyond time. I've used the skull caps or cowls to banish hair, which is distracting. I want to isolate the face and concentrate on what is really going on deep within my subjects.

Joyce Tenneson

#13. I use the music almost as a compass in some kind of quasi-romantic way. I try and go to places that I'm intrigued by, and I take this music with me, using my name at the front.

Robert Plant

#14. I try not to have too many rituals because I believe that rituals don't help you win. I used to do rituals a lot and it was crazy.

Serena Williams

#15. I feel like God gave me the ability to play a game. I try to take it very seriously. I realize it's just a game.

Zach Johnson

#16. I try to put all I am as a person into what I do. My intelligence, my emotion. I've done that in everything.

Tom Heinsohn

#17. The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.

E.B. White

#18. I think my attitude's different when I'm in the different places. I don't walk around in character. I try not to walk around with the accent, but those little things change you, whether it's your hair, your clothes, your shoes or a different silhouette. People absolutely look at you differently.

Anna Torv

#19. The harder I try to realistically portray real things, the more the things that appear in my work have a tendency to become unreal.

Haruki Murakami

#20. I try to get the hip-hop aesthetic, most times without an MC. I don't use a rapper or a DJ to give it the hip-hop style; it's strictly the band that makes that music, which is a lot harder to do.

Robert Glasper

#21. I try to leave things as open ended as possible, not too overladen with meaning.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

#22. I try to be original in every piece of music I do, and of course I probably fail every time.

Herbert

#23. I try to find my deepest, often hidden feelings about what's working and what's not. This is difficult because I do lie to myself without being aware that that's what I'm doing.

Cynthia Kadohata

#24. ...I try to laugh at whatever life brings...

Ani DiFranco

#25. I believe in the Bible and I try to follow the Bible. I know I'm an imperfect person, I'm not making myself out to be an angel. Because I'm not an angel & I'm not a devil either. I try to be the best I can and I try to do what I think is right. It's that simple.

Michael Jackson

#26. Everybody else is afraid to fail. I do not really care because when I fail, I try something new.

Vinod Khosla

#27. It's tough when you started out as young as I did to look back and see how far I've come. I try to be easy on myself and go 'Look man, you were younger, you were learning; you learn, you grow.' But I'm not my best judge. I always feel like my best work is still ahead of me.

Matt Dillon

#28. I try to take notes of things that happen that I think are important or interesting or just little tidbits here and there that happen in life. And some of it's even just one line or like a saying and I just go off that.

Courtney Barnett

#29. I try to lead by example.

Usain Bolt

#30. COMEDIAN: [ ... ] What is it you do for a living?
HECKLER: I mind my own business.
COMEDIAN: Self-employed, eh? No really, what do you do?
HECKLER: I try not to do.

J. Ross Clara

#31. For me, motivation is this horrible, scary game where I try to make myself do something while I actively avoid doing it.

Allie Brosh

#32. I like profanity - it's practically my mother tongue - but I try to use words that insult without demeaning, when I can.

Seanan McGuire

#33. I try not to confuse roles and traits in my own life. Being the Perl god is a role. Being a stubborn cuss is a trait.

Larry Wall

#34. I hate the gym, so I try to diversify my workouts with swimming and basketball. Indoors, it's less boring than running. I do find that diet is key. I eat lots of lean protein, no soda, no fast food or fried foods, and a lot of water. But I love food and often cook.

Mike Colter

#35. I don't know why I get away with some things. But I'm not a misogynistic, racist person. Yet I do find those jokes funny, so I say them. And I try to say everything kind of in a good spirit.

Daniel Tosh

#36. I always switch off from the business when I go across the threshold. Home is home, and I try to keep it that way.

John Caudwell

#37. The first time I try anything is invariably not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.

Lawrence Welk

#38. I try to walk around with a smile on my face.

Johnny Damon

#39. I don't play just one-two-three-four. I try to play melodies.

John Densmore

#40. I wish to begin again on a daily basis. To be born again every day is something that I try to do. And I'm deadly serious about that.

Bono

#41. I try to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put the emphasis on the right syllable.

Don Henley

#42. I try to have no absolute nos. I love french fries, I like a good burger, and I like pie. And that's okay.

Michelle Obama

#43. I try to keep it real. I don't have time to worry about what I'm projecting to the world. I'm just busy being myself.

Demi Lovato

#44. I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books for them I try to put this right.

Nina Bawden

#45. I try to write like the writers I admire - I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and Merle Haggard records, and country music in general is really good at that, the twisted phrase ... So I'm always looking for that angle in my own work.

Brad Paisley

#46. Thank you for your news, Princess. It is none of it happy, but only a fool desires cheerful ignorance and I try not to be a fool. That is my heaviest burden.

Tad Williams

#47. I try to tell a story musically in a song.

Barry White

#48. I try to live my life in such a way that I don't have any regrets. That's probably why I work so much. I don't want to feel I missed something important.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#49. I try to protect my loved ones, the people I share my life with, because they don't have a public life like me. I want to keep their lives private out of respect for them.

Georges St-Pierre

#50. I love Friends, so I try to bring Jennifer Aniston's mannerisms to my show.

Selena

#51. I don't think it's my responsibility, but I definitely try to create my own projects that are Latin-based with a Latin crew and Latin cast. I try to give all my characters Latin names whenever I can and make sure that they are of Latin heritage. But that does not work with every project.

John Leguizamo

#52. That's true. It doesn't make any sense. Welcome to the adult world, coming soon. I work so I can work more. I try not to want anything so maybe I'll get something. I starve so I can be less and more. I try to be free so I can be alone. And there's no point to any of it. They left out that part.

David Vann

#53. I am forever a romantic. I try to bring that into my work. I try not to be fooled by romance. Or work.

Julia Stiles

#54. I try to run every time I'm in a new city or country - you just put your shoes on and go. It's very therapeutic, and it also works for me when I want to lose weight.

Eva Longoria

#55. When I make music, I try to make something that is super colorful and something you've never heard before, so when you hear the whole album, it's a good feeling. Musically that's what I aspire to do whenever I'm making an album.

Pharrell Williams

#56. I try to eat vegetarian, though I'm not very good at it, and it's a work in progress. But we basically are what we eat. Eat fat, and there's fat in your body. Eat protein, and there's protein in your body. Eat magic, and there's magic in your body.

Greg Van Eekhout

#57. It's only when people get involved, when there's money involved, that you have a lot opinions around you. I try not to listen to them too much.

Anton Corbijn

#58. What I try to do with the accent of any character I play is not necessarily to do something that's generic - an Indian accent and that's how it sounds, for example. I think the accent needs to sound authentic on this person.

Adhir Kalyan

#59. Something horrible happens and I try to make it funny. It's really a tortured life. You go to a salsa bar, at your local burrito stand, and you know, you think "how can you make a joke about this?"

Daniel Tosh

#60. I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

#61. Oh I used to be disgusted and now I try to be amused. But since their wings have got rusted, you know, the angels wanna wear my red shoes.

Elvis Costello

#62. I try to be a good person. I know what my downfalls are, so that's a good thing.

Leah Remini

#63. Could it really be this easy to land a handsome man? If so, why didn't I try it ages ago?

Steve Hockensmith

#64. I try to be cynical, but it's so hard to keep up.

Lily Tomlin

#65. I try to eat how your mother wanted you to eat when you were young.

Heather Morris

#66. I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.

Naomie Harris

#67. I try to factor solitude into my life because more and more, that's becoming a very precious and rare commodity.

Robyn Davidson

#68. I take vitamins daily, but just the bare essentials not what you'd call supplements. I try to stick to a vegan diet heavy on fruit, vegetables, tofu, and other soy products.

Clint Eastwood

#69. If I don't give up in the ring, I don't give up in life ... I try to live my life the same way.

Eddie Alvarez

#70. Unless I try, I'm never really going to be at ease with myself.

Terence Stamp

#71. I try to picture my books being acted out.

Denise Fleming

#72. It's nice to sit down when you're not working. I try to do it as often as possible.

Domhnall Gleeson

#73. I am fortunate to have enough money not to have to worry about the necessities of life. Beyond that, I try to think about money as little as possible.

Michael Sandel

#74. You might be a legend one day if you just keep your head to the ground and never get overzealous and start thinking you've outdone yourself. That's the space I try to stay in.

Bryce Wilson

#75. You think the knife was used, cleaned, then scraped through the blood on the floor?" Lestrade asked. "Evidently." "Why do that?" "Chief Inspector, I try to form my hypotheses upon data, rather than shape the data to match my wishes." And

Laurie R. King

#76. I do moderate exercise, and I try to eat pretty well, and I think it has an effect on me.

Mel Gibson

#77. I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.

Harlan Coben

#78. I try to get through emotional pain and not go around it, it always ends sooner that way. I also use chocolate.

Christina Perri

#79. I try not to think about any of the production side of things. If you do, you tend to get unfocused and distracted. I just try to think about the character and the scene and what I'm doing.

Shanley Caswell

#80. I am aware of the haters and bad rumors. I'd be lying if I say I don't care, but I try my best not to.

Jay Park

#81. I try not to regret too much. I find that feeling guilty takes up so much of my time already.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

#82. I think that there's not much point to being an actor if you're not enjoying it, so I try to be picky about roles I do like to go out for.

Grey Damon

#83. I try not to judge because I've been judged a heck of a lot, and it don't feel nice.

Estelle

#84. I don't have the self-discipline for diets; I break rules I set for myself, so I try and eat more healthily, juice more, and avoid sugar.

Sally Phillips

#85. What I try to do is make sure that the directors I'm working with are on the same page and want to do the same kind of films. You can really protect yourself as an actor if you work with really good people. It can hide a lot of flaws along the way.

George Clooney

#86. I try to steer away from high metaphysical belief because I think we humans do best when we realize that we don't know all that much.

Sam Keen

#87. What happens if I try to run?" I ask as the doors close. (jace)
"I'll stop you." (charlie)
"You don't look too quick." (jace)
"You'd be surprised." (charlie)
"I hate surprises." (jace)
"Then don't run. (charlie)

D.D. Barant

#88. I try to be authentic - but at the same time I don't really want people prying into my personal life.

Zooey Deschanel

#89. What I admired most about him [Bobby Fischer] was his ability to make what was in fact so difficult look easy to us. I try to emulate him.

Magnus Carlsen

#90. When we start shooting I don't have rehearsals with characters at all. So, rather than pulling them towards myself, I travel closer to them; it's very much closer to the real person than anything I try to create. So I give them something but I also take from them.

Abbas Kiarostami

#91. I try to reach for the stars because if you say you want something small and it happens, you don't believe it. So I try to say something wild and crazy.

Ester Dean

#92. I try not to plan that too much.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#93. is it that the moment I live for myself, everyone around me becomes miserable, but when I try to live for others, I become miserable? Why

John Sivils

#94. My criterion for accepting a role isn't based on what I would like to do. I try to consider what the audience would like to see me do and I thought kids would adore Star Wars.

Peter Cushing

#95. I'm old, and so busy with work, that I like to just stay home and get my sleep now. I try not to burn both ends of the candle.

Tracy Morgan

#96. I really don't like to do back-to-back movies. I concentrate on things at home. My family and school life are important to me. I try to do one movie a year.

Anna Chlumsky

#97. I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images.

Dan Colen

#98. If I have free time I try and stay away from working at all. I work so much that I savour every second that I have free and I try not to draw at all. You'll never see me draw when I'm having a coffee or something.

Marko Djurdjevic

#99. I try to be as efficient as possible because in my process, I think that actually helps the work. I like having the pressure of time and money and really trying to stick to the parameters we've been given.

Christopher Nolan

#100. I try to live in the luminosity of things.

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