Quotes About Trying

#1. The kind of music I'm trying to make is conscious, to make people think and feel and get inspired.

Matisyahu

#2. NBC was trying to convert all of their local programming to color right away to encourage the sale of the sets, so I barely remember working in black and white, although I do know that I did do it, but there was not a major difference, though.

Jim Henson

#3. I don't ever want to become Bill Maher where I have to find some strong opinion on something just because it's in the news. That's the guy that comes off like you have to be angry every week about new topics and snotty about something. That's what I'm trying to avoid.

Doug Stanhope

#4. I have superfine, superoily hair, so my struggle is always trying to get the volume I want. I end up not doing much with it ever.

Odette Annable

#5. I did get upset once, when we were hiking between pitches 15 and 16. Two women and a dog were trying to find their way down through the maze of trails below the First Summit and they asked us: 'Are you on the trail?' I let my indignity show: 'NO, we're on a CLIMB!'

Andy Cairns

#6. Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."

Jerry Seinfeld

#7. Certainly, no church should be involved in trying to set the affairs of the nation.

Mitt Romney

#8. I'm not trying to change you, Maggie. I'm trying to love you.

Lexi Ryan

#9. When balancing a bottle of nitroglycerin on the point of a sword, never complicate the task by trying to tap dance.

Dean Koontz

#10. We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.

Walt Disney Company

#11. At the same time that I'm finding the color world I want, I'm also trying to make the imagery, you know, by the nature of the strokes themselves.

Chuck Close

#12. Trying to control information in the network age is about as successful as pissing into the wind.

Keith Henson

#13. Stand-up is my heart and now I get a chance to do that and the music altogether. That's going to be great. I'm trying to be the Sammy Davis Jr. of 2005. I'm planning on going out with Cedric the Entertainer because he's got that musical bone, too.

Jamie Foxx

#14. It's hard for me to assess what I brought because each time you pick up a camera and point it at a person, you're trying to define that person so to talk generally is difficult because I have to think of a given image in order to conjure up what we're talking about.

Eve Arnold

#15. Just trying to tell the truth about, you know, the struggle of - being alive is funny, it's just inherently tragic and also hilarious - in a fun way and in a sad way. That seems to connect with people.

Judd Apatow

#16. Muse of poetry, come to his aid, I thought. Could the man produce one more metaphor of husbandry? He seemed to be trying.
"Green wood," I suggested, but even he sensed that there was something unfortunate about a metaphor for a king in which you dry out your royalty before you set fire to it.

Megan Whalen Turner

#17. I couldn't be happier to not be acting. I miss it, but I don't miss the auditioning or trying to get work.

Paul Feig

#18. Don't quit. Never give up trying to build the world you can see, even if others can't see it. Listen to your drum and your drum only. It's the one that makes the sweetest sound.

Simon Sinek

#19. Alex landed on my carefully laid trap. "Pay up Prince Yummy." The nickname burst out of my mouth as I mentally screamed in slow motion, trying to stop my lips from uttering the words.

Nichole Chase

#20. We don't need to be perfect. We're not supposed to be perfect; we're supposed to be complete. And you can't be complete if you're trying to be perfect.

Jane Fonda

#21. You make magic,' he exclaimed, 'without even trying'.

Mette Jakobsen

#22. When I was nominated for a Grammy, my label dropped me - I have a wariness about trying for a hit.

Tift Merritt

#23. I've grown to love L.A., but it's the most socially awkward place. All these people have come there not to be something but to pretend to be someone trying to be someone.

Melissa McCarthy

#24. Every actor has a different temperament. Part of my job is to know what those boundaries are. The actor has to know you'll be there at the other end, that you're trying to represent them in the best light, who they are as they're harnessing these roles. The methods vary from actor to actor.

Atom Egoyan

#25. Companies have been trying to figure out what it is that makes open source work.

Brian Behlendorf

#26. Not kill us," Pigeon corrected. "She was mainly just trying to turn us into mindless slaves.

Brandon Mull

#27. I love what I do for a living, it's the greatest job in the world, but you have to survive an awful lot of attention that you don't truly deserve and you have to live up to your professional responsibilities and I'm always trying to balance that with what is really important.

Tom Hanks

#28. Winning 'Best Vlogger of 2013' from MTV is a really wonderful honor, and I wanted to thank all of you out there that used your fingers and clicked a button and made this happen, and to all of you that accidentally clicked my name and you were trying to click Jack and Finn, I'm sorry.

Grace Helbig

#29. She's trying to sabotage all the magic holding this island together. But that would create a catastrophe for all of Hawaii."
"Well, that does it," Koko huffed. "As of today, she's off my Christmas card list.

Laurence Yep

#30. Science cannot progress without reliable and accurate measurement of what it is you are trying to study. The key is measurement, simple as that.

Robert D. Hare

#31. People love seeing people trying to change stuff.

Adam Shankman

#32. I don't try to kind of go for the overly sympathetic. I don't really like sympathy; I don't like it for myself. Sometimes sympathy you feel like, you're kind of trying to victimize someone.

Charlize Theron

#33. Searching for nothing Wondering if I'll change I'm trying everything But everything still stays the same I thought if I showed you I could fly Wouldn't need anyone by my side I'm running backwards With broken wings I know I'll die

Sully Erna

#34. One of the things that we talked about was this idea of 'Memento Mori' - like the reminder of our own mortality - and so we were sort of trying to express that in our press photos. And it's one of the themes of the album [Modern Vampires of the City] as well.

Rostam Batmanglij

#35. The Secret Service said there have been 40 fence-jumping incidents at the White House in the past five years. Half of them were intruders trying to get in. The other half was President Obama trying to get out.

Conan O'Brien

#36. Professor Einstein, every Christian in America will immediately reply to you, 'Take your crazy, fallacious theory of evolution and go back to Germany where you came from, or stop trying to break down the faith of a people who gave you a welcome when you were forced to flee your native land.' The

Richard Dawkins

#37. The goal is not necessarily to succeed but to keep trying, to be the kind of person who has ideas and see them through.

Esme Raji Codell

#38. It's not that I'm deliberately trying to shock people all the time. I'm just doing things that are obvious to me. It's because the public doesn't understand my way of thinking that they get surprised.

Takafumi Horie

#39. The speculator who insists on trying to profit from daily minor movements will never be in a position to take advantage of the next important change marketwise when it occurs.

Anonymous

#40. I suppose I felt guilty not to be doing something more important, more political. So in a way I am trying to use the company for these other activities.

Miuccia Prada

#41. Hell must be a pretty swell spot, because the guys that invented religion have sure been trying hard to keep everybody else out.

Al Capone

#42. You have to know how to evolve with age without trying to hang on to your younger image of yourself from the past.

Cate Blanchett

#43. As a young actor, people were trying to define who I was before I really knew that for myself. But I still remember thinking, 'This is what I love doing, and I hope I'm going to be able to do it forever.'

Tom Cruise

#44. It's no use trying to pretend that mostpeople and ourselves are alike. Mostpeople have less in common with ourselves than thesquarerootofminusone. You and I are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.

E. E. Cummings

#45. I don't feel that normal anymore because I get recognised, even when I'm just trying to have fun or going to get ice cream with my friends.

Maddie Ziegler

#46. he believes it is, overall, a wiser approach to life's problems. After all, how can you pick up something new - a new career, a new relationship, a new outlook on life - without first letting go of the old? It's like trying to pick up a bag of groceries when your hands are already full.

Eric Weiner

#47. What we're really trying to tell, even though it's very much a genre show, is a very human story. Even in this heightened situation, it still comes down to people being people, and dealing with people as people. It really is about the seven people in that town.

Remi Aubuchon

#48. Because, therefore, we are defending a way of life, we must be respectful of that way of life as we proceed to the solution of our problem. We must not violate its principles and its precepts, and we must not destroy from within what we are trying to defend from without.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#49. Spring is a time to make up a big bouquet of flowers for someone you love, or are trying to love, or are in love with.

Carew Papritz

#50. I think diversity in television is important. It's not about trying to fill a quota or satisfy some idea of diversity, but I think what diversity brings to any daypart is more eyeballs, just more opportunity.

Aisha Tyler

#51. You seem to be trying to ride a pony named Trouble all the way to the border.

Erik Bundy

#52. All my life's about is cracking up people and them cracking me up and trying not to think about dying. That doesn't cost very much money.

Norm MacDonald

#53. Lighting is not about function. It's much more about the mood and the emotion that the playwright and the director are trying to create. Our job is to support their poetic direction.

Jules Fisher

#54. My ideal is a book that is perfect on every page, that gives you tremendous aesthetic joy on every page. I suppose I am trying to write such a book.

James Salter

#55. You do not see fairies through the eyes, you see them through the heart and that took me a long time to learn because I was always trying to see them through my eyes.

Brian Froud

#56. I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.

Lou Reed

#57. He (a teacher at school) was the epitome of the Oxonian code of "effortless superiority" whereby to be seen trying really hard to achieve something was in many ways worse than actually failing it.

John Cleese

#58. I don't have any jokes about my divorce or my ex-husband, who is a lovely person. It really is about how I was an idiot trying to push this guy to get married when I wasn't even sure if I wanted to.

Jen Kirkman

#59. Dealing with the Scots, my father had always said, was like trying to geld wildcats with your teeth, but luckily the wildcats spent much of their time fighting each other. Once

Bernard Cornwell

#60. We hiked the Matterhorn and I stopped every minute to take pictures until he fumed: "Do you think all this beauty and grandeur can fit in a little square of film? Record things in your heart. It's more important than trying to show people what you're experiencing." My

Paulo Coelho

#61. Coyness is a rather comically pathetic fault, a miscalculation in which, by trying to veil the ego, we let it appear stark naked.

Louis Kronenberger

#62. Well. Yes. Someone's trying to kill me. But you don't have to make such a big deal out of it.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#63. The paradox of writing is that you're trying to use words to express what words can't express.

Stephen Fischer

#64. What makes it difficult for people trying to follow a dream is that the whole time you feel like you're slamming your head against the wall. So it's nice to make a breakthrough and not kind of lying there with your head bleeding.

Lewis Black

#65. My whole life has been nothing but trying to find a way to take care of my mom and take care of my family as quickly as possible.

Derrick Rose

#66. When I get the chance, I'm at the theaters all the time, trying to check out the latest movies.

Michael Clarke Duncan

#67. Every day you amass knowledge in a frantic race against death that death must win. You want to find out everything in the time you have; yet in the end you wonder why you bothered, it'll all be lost. I keep trying to explain this to anyone who will listen.

Derek Raymond

#68. I changed jobs like I changed shirts. It was something I just like to do - I like trying my hand at everything.

Evangeline Lilly

#69. Words, it gave a rather convincing impression of trying to elude pursuit. The dry, faintly ironic delivery

Douglas Preston

#70. I'm not in love. I'm not out of love. I'm just trying to find some version of the truth.

Gwen Ifill

#71. I don't mean to worry you and all," I said, trying to keep my voice calm, "but have you noticed that you've been shot?"
"Ah." Looking at him closer now, I could see he was clutching the counter to stay upright. "I'd almost forgotten about that.

Alwyn Hamilton

#72. Don't squander beautiful moments by always trying to snap the perfect picture or record the event on film. Sometimes it's better to watch things as they happen with your own eyes, knowing that the memory of the experience will always be with you.

Rachel Nichols

#73. Self-improvement comes mainly from trying to help others.

John Templeton

#74. I am always floating around trying to tend to everyone and be free while at the same time enjoying some space.

Jenna Morasca

#75. A true lady is known by her conduct under trying circumstances.

Marissa Doyle

#76. To die trying is the proudest humans thing.

Robert A. Heinlein

#77. No matter what you're trying to do there will be noise in the market ... Before the race starts, I'm already focused on the victory.

Sanya Richards-Ross

#78. Oh boy. Too drunk to hold on to a whiskey and Coke and the word "pretty." That's not a combination with a positive outcome. Not good at all. That's the secret password that usually leaves me trying to find a ride home in the morning.

Laurie Notaro

#79. I've changed, I'm nice to people and I'm not so self-centered. What I'm trying to do now is think of the other person. The only trouble is, I've found that the other person thinks only of himself.

Oscar Levant

#80. It's so easy to become obsessed with the film industry and recognition that we can forget that we are not saving the world. We are just actors trying to entertain people.

Charlie Cox

#81. Another note to self; turn cellphone to silent when you're trying to be sneaky.

Suzie Ivy

#82. I think sometimes people project things on you, but I'm trying to handle everything that's happened to me with a certain amount of grace, dignity and good manners. You just can't necessarily win all the time.

Katie Couric

#83. I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.

Vivienne Westwood

#84. Trying to observe the slow shift from self-centeredness to empathy is like trying to watch grass grow.

Neal A. Maxwell

#85. Okay, I like him," I admitted.
"But it takes more than a nice body, Jenks. Jeez, I do have a little depth. You've got a great body, and you don't see me trying to get into your Fruit of the Looms.

Kim Harrison

#86. Let's be real: if women were "naturally" anything, societies wouldn't spend so much time trying to police every aspect of their lives

Kameron Hurley

#87. It disguises itself as motor vehicle knowledge, but really it's physics, which any other time would be fascinating but not right now, not while you're trying to learn to drive.

Polly Horvath

#88. If an artist is one who spends his life trying to define his being, I guess I would have to call myself an artist.

Roger Ballen

#89. As a comic, I've heard gunshots while I'm trying to get to sleep. I've performed where people wanted to do you harm after the show because of something you said.

Billy Gardell

#90. I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for three years. You had to learn that world.

Robert Caro

#91. People are trying to be smart - all I am trying to do is not to be idiotic, but it's harder than most people think.

Charlie Munger

#92. There's the moon trying to look romanticMoon's too old that's her troubleAren't we all?

Roger McGough

#93. If somebody is really trying to take your head off with a baseball bat - I don't know how long you're supposed to stand there and turn the other cheek, so he or she can get a better angle at taking your head off.

Maya Angelou

#94. Five minutes." He set the alarm. "Ready?"

"Yes, sir."

"You're trying to get me to fuck you by calling me 'sir,' aren't you? It will work. But not yet.

Tiffany Reisz

#95. Adele Adkins' retro-soul debut, '19', was striking less for her songs than for that voice: a voluptuous, slightly parched alto that swooped and fluttered like a Dusty Springfield student trying to upstage her teacher, or at least update the rules.

Will Hermes

#96. Lying is like trying to hide in a fog: If you move about you're in danger of bumping your head against the truth, and as soon as the fog blows off, you are gone anyhow.

Josh Billings

#97. It felt like her brain had become writhing worms inside of her skull, trying to escape through her eye sockets.

S.M. Reine

#98. Usually my 'a-ha' moments are when I'm not trying to think of how to solve a particular problem.

Tony Hsieh

#99. For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

T. S. Eliot

#100. I've directed a fair amount of television series - so I'm always trying to learn new things. One episode was all hand-held and I'm trying to get better at when you should do things and when you should just shut up and watch what the people are saying.

Bob Balaban