Top 100 You Are Trying Quotes
#1. If you are trying to aid people in the process of self-discovery, what you have to do is confound them with so many concepts that are contradictory, yet each make complete sense in its own right.
Frederick Lenz
#2. As producers, we can influence where the budget goes, but only the director really controls what tone, what type of movie you are trying to make.
Michelle Yeoh
#3. You forgive yourself for every failure because you are trying to do the right thing. God knows that and you know it. Nobody else may know it.
Maya Angelou
#4. If you are a researcher, you are trying to figure out what the question is as well as what the answer is.
Edward Witten
#5. If you know something is true, you don't need to convince anyone of it. If you are trying to convince anyone, it is probably yourself.
Alan Cohen
#6. Do you know what it means to be emphatic? I will tell you: It means that when you are being forcibly taken to a dungeon, when you have a large knife at your back, when you are trying to be brave, you are able, still, to think for a moment of the person who is holding the knife.
Kate DiCamillo
#7. Get the big point of your advertisement into your headline. Use your headline as a hook to reach out and catch the special group of people you are trying to interest.
John Caples
#8. Forgetting your mistakes is a terrible error if you are trying to improve your cognition.
Charlie Munger
#9. If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.
Adrienne Rich
#10. People will tell you that you can't do it, no matter what you are trying to do, so you just have to really keep at it.
Madisen Beaty
#11. To travel is the experience of ceasing to be the person you are trying to be, and becoming the person you really are.
Paulo Coelho
#12. If you are trying to find something, it means you haven't got it. And if you find it simply by looking for it, that means it's false.
Pablo Picasso
#13. Once you are far enough into your work, it can provide endless fascination. You are trying to solve a huge puzzle: to create an entire intricate world that works in the end, like the mechanism of an old clock.
Susan Winkler
#14. Whenever you take the time to inspire someone, to aid them in their inner search, you'll find energy will come back to you - unless you are ego tripping or you are trying to manipulate them.
Frederick Lenz
#15. The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.
Bjarne Stroustrup
#16. Putting 100 percent into your life, your work, or sport, doesn't give you the right to expect success at whatever you are trying to do - it just provides the opportunity.
Graham Lowe
#17. You are trying to lure us into revealing information you're not entitled to? With chocolate and wine? Are you amateurs?
Moira J. Moore
#18. Your criticism may be worse than the conduct you are trying to correct.
James E. Faust
#19. In one deep sense, novels are concealed autobiography. I don't mean that you are telling facts about yourself, but you are trying to find out what you really think or who you are.
Robert Penn Warren
#20. The only reason why you are unhappy is because you are trying to be happy.
Jaggi Vasudev
#21. The important thing to remember, if you are trying something that is an innovation, is not to think too much about it. Because if you take too long, by the time you get there, the world will have changed. You take a risk, and if it doesn't work, you make a change. We are not betting our lives on it.
Sandro Veronesi
#22. It is true that getting into writing as a career can sometimes feel like you are trying to throw ten coins up in the air and have them all land on heads,
Jan Doncom
#23. As long as you are trying your very best, there can be no question of failure.
Mahatma Gandhi
#24. Never get a reputation for a small perfection if you are trying for fame in a loftier area. The world can only judge by generals, and it sees that those who pay considerable attention to minutiae seldom have their minds occupied with great things.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#25. When you are trying to achieve success, never give up hope, persist because hope will never give up on you.
Robert Moment
#26. It's scary to not know when your next job is coming, and that is a daily fear when you are trying to act full-time.
Allison Tolman
#27. I felt a constant, low-flying desperation, the kind you feel when you are trying, trying, trying to get something you will never, ever get.
Deb Caletti
#28. What you are trying to let go of
...is already gone.
Sanober Khan
#29. We just eat a lot of guavas because its the only way to kill our hunger, and when it comes to defecating, we get in so much pain it becomes an almost impossible task, like you are trying to give birth to a country.
NoViolet Bulawayo
#30. If you are not trying to participate or win then you are trying to fail.
Debasish Mridha
#31. I think men can really get in the way when you are trying to sort your life out and get on with it. Because they just take up so much space. I'm not under any illusions that I could have been where I am now in literary terms if I had been heterosexual. I really believe I would not be.
Jeanette Winterson
#32. If you are trying to take a difficult decision and you're weighing up the pros and cons, you have frank conversations. Everybody knows this in their walk of life.
Tony Blair
#33. When you battle for something it is like you are trying to push your realization into the alternatives space, whereas when you choose something the space comes to you.
Vadim Zeland
#34. It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#35. Anything that distracts from the story you are trying to tell should be promptly and mercilessly dealt with.
Craig Hart
#36. Being cool, like being humble or radical, is a perfectly elusive goal that you fail at the minute you reveal that you are trying to succeed.
Christine Jeske
#37. In day-to-day life, our brain sends lots of signals. In acting, there are no signals. You have to believe in what you are trying to portray.
Anupam Kher
#38. Golf is played between the ears and if you are not 100 percent focused on what you are trying to do, then people will go past you no matter who you are.
Lee Westwood
#39. If meditate on the third eye and have headaches it means you are trying to pull in too much power from the occult chakra. The danger is obsession.
Frederick Lenz
#40. Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great. Competent design is not too much of a stretch. But if you are trying to do something new, you have challenges on so many axes.
Jonathan Ive
#41. Learning to have patience and not forcing the relationship is part of the twin soul process. If you are trying to force your will onto the other person, chances are you're not ready to really connect yourself. There should be no blame here - only deep and unconditional love.
Chimnese Davids
#42. Sometimes things will not go as planned, but don't lose hope. Stay focused on whatever you are trying to accomplish. There will be a breakthrough soon. Understand that all things take time. You may not be there yet, but you're on the right path towards success.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#43. Amy! Sit correctly, you are wearing a dress ... feet on the floor and your knees together girl ... You are trying to catch a husband, not flies !
Amy Mah
#44. The secret of image - worship is that you are trying to develop your vision of Divinity in one thing.
Swami Vivekananda
#45. Never use tricky or irrelevant headlines ... People read too fast to figure out what you are trying to say.
David Ogilvy
#46. I have advice for new writers, first of all, at any time in the history of publishing in my experience, there will be endless number people telling you that you can't do what you are trying to do. You won't succeed, there's something else you should be doing.
Dean Koontz
#47. The joy of songwriting only gets messed up if you are trying to follow up a big success, or you are trying to create a hit single, or if you have conscious thoughts of a particular outcome for the music.
Tim Finn
#48. The characteristic shared by people at the top of their profession is that, to get better, they crave criticism. Most people don't like criticism, but if you are trying to shave two tenths of a second at 800 metres, that is what you crave.
Sebastian Coe
#49. You are trying to take my mind off the coming announcement and I appreciate it, but all that alphabet soup stuff confuses me. You do realize that I am a very natural blonde, don't you?" "You don't get to play that blondie card with me, darlin'. I already know how smart you are.
Carolyn Brown
#50. There is this miraculous thing I heard Hugh Grant talking about - the thing about screen acting is that you can read people's thoughts. You are trying to register something inside and usually the eyes in cinema are where you will register that.
Toby Jones
#51. I am touched that you are trying to comprehend me. A friend could not be more loving.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#52. If you are trying to balance the scales of justice and equality in all your work relationships, you're going to come up short.
Judy Sheindlin
#53. You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other things
Ann Brashares
#54. If you are trying to grow your qualified search traffic, you have to combine your content marketing with your SEO efforts.
Neil Patel
#55. If you are trying to slip out without waking a sleeping man, zips are a nightmare. Haven't you ever tried to creep out of the room unnoticed the following morning? I've done that many times.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#56. Whatever you are trying to achieve in life, it is essential that you surround yourself with people who believe that what you seek and what you believe in are not only possible but also very probable.
Chris Prentiss
#57. It's when you are trying to make something that is "authentic" as opposed to real - people who appreciate music for the wrong reasons tend to compartmentalize stuff.
James Hunter
#58. It's a weird thing when you spend your life trying to find these great scripts and great parts. You are reading scripts, you are traveling the world, you are hassling your agent. You are trying to find that script.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
#59. 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
#60. If you are trying to think ahead musically, it is not going to help you. It is better to ignore what is happening melodically and just look at the little dots coming at you and the corresponding colors and try to do it at the right time.
Chris Cornell
#61. I don't have a favorite medium; I was brought up on TV. so I am clearly of the TV generation, but it depends on what you are trying to sell; sometimes a fully integrated solution, sometimes a pure Internet solution, sometimes a pure billboard solution.
Donny Deutsch
#62. Coming from Morocco was just different, man. It's a third-world country, and you are trying to make it happen. That's all it is. I didn't have any problem hooking up with the black kids because I'm from North Africa. And as far as Latinos, we are all the same.
French Montana
#64. As long as you are trying to be something other than what you actually are, your mind wears itself out. But if you say, 'This is what I am, it is a fact that I am going to investigate and understand,' then you can go beyond.
Jack Kornfield
#65. To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future.
Gordon Brown
#66. This sense of perfection has a built-in contradiction, one that Ram Dass once captured very succinctly by a statement he had heard from his Himalayan guru: The world is absolutely perfect, including your own dissatisfaction with it, and everything you are trying to do to change it.
Stanislav Grof
#67. If you are trying to fool a farsighted or dimwitted person, a veiled facial disguise might be enough.
Lemony Snicket
#68. It's exhausting being cynical. You are trying to be an immovable, angry rock in the middle of a stream. But the stream will not move. It is you that will be worn down to dull silt.
Caitlin Moran
#69. Thought is like a bubble rising to the surface. When thought is joined to will, we call it power. That which strikes the sick person whom you are trying to help is not thought, but power.
Swami Vivekananda
#70. Cannot we let [children] be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make another you. One's enough.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#71. Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.
Dan Quayle
#72. When you are trying to do something very innovative and revolutionary, you must also open yourself to a lot of questions.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#73. When you bowl at him you are not just trying to get him out, you are trying to impress him. "I want him to walk off thinking 'that Flintoff, he's all right isn't he?" I feel privileged to have played against him.
Andrew Flintoff
#74. Humor is an escape, because you cannot think about your problems when you are trying to be funny; so, in essence, "being a humorist" gives you a valid excuse to hide from your pain.
Dave Barry
#75. To keep you sane and successful. Find a mentor who have done what you are trying to accomplish before and help you.
Timi Nadela
#76. To write without any awareness of a tradition you are trying to become a part of would be self-defeating. Every artist alive responds to the history of his or her art - borrowing, stealing, rebelling against, and building on what other artists have done.
Dorianne Laux
#77. You are trying not only to reach your potential but to move beyond it. If you are not in the best shape you can be, these things simply become more difficult to achieve.
Rick Pitino
#78. Play and practice like you are trying to make the team.
Mike Krzyzewski
#79. There is a difference between willing and forcing. Willing something simply means you are not being lazy. Forcing something means you are trying to do something inappropriate or in an inappropriate way.
Frederick Lenz
#80. When you are solving a difficult problem re-ask the problem so that your solution helps you learn faster. Find a faster way to fail, recover, and try again. If the problem you are trying to solve involves creating a magnum opus, you are solving the wrong problem.
Aza Raskin
#81. That was really so upsetting when you are trying to pass on some very serious knowledge and be basically, treated worse than a student coming off the street because his father pays the tuition. Come on. Give me a break. This is no school. This is a joke.
Miroslav Vitous
#82. Often romantic relationships fail because you are trying to get someone to fall in love with the YOU that you never discovered.
Shannon L. Alder
#83. There's no middle ground in modern movies; you either save a kingdom and marry a princess or you are shot to death by assassins hired by the evil corporation that you are trying to bring to justice in the courtroom of a corrupt judge.
Dean Koontz
#84. Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.
Henry Ward Beecher
#85. My programme, The Art of Creative Expression, empowers young people with tools to express themselves. We teach photography, art and drama, but it's not just the medium that's important, it's about what you are trying to say.
Dawud Wharnsby Ali
#86. Your trying to take them away from me, and I can't let you do that.I'm not ready to let go."
"Exactly what am I taking away?"
"My family."
"Brenna ... "
She wouldn't let him continue. "You are trying to take them away, aren't you? And if you succeed, what will I have left?"
"Me.
Julie Garwood
#87. Naturalness is the easiest thing in the world to acquire, if you will forget yourself-forget about the impression you are trying to make.
Dale Carnegie
#88. I would recommend, initially, if you are trying to increase your personal power level, to meditate on the navel center, not the lower two.
Frederick Lenz
#89. I mean, I don't know anything else that I would try to do, but it's a very frustrating thing to do, because you are trying to take what's a fantasy in your head and make it live through the minds of 200 people.
Sydney Pollack
#90. Solitude led to retrospective thinking, and if the past is what you are trying to get away from, then constant distractions in the present are needed.
R.D. Ronald
#91. Comics is different than writing because when you draw something you are trying to visualize it and you are trying to put yourself in that space. And when you're drawing something, all sorts of associations come up in my mind that I never would have thought of otherwise.
Chris Ware
#92. As long as you are carrying a secret, as long as you are trying to ease your conscience by telling God how sorry you are, you are setting yourself up to repeat the past.
Andy Stanley
#93. Mistakes are proof that you are trying.
Unknown
#94. You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen, and I think it quite ungentlemanly.
William Goldman
#95. A loser is one who has "given up on his dreams",so long as you are trying, you haven't lost yet!
Manmohan Singh
#96. ... but you cant get all hung up on details when you are trying to survive ...
Sapphire.
#97. If you are trying to get from here to there, and you already are late, you know that you are late, and yet you are aligned with the present moment while you are stuck in a traffic jam. You are totally accepting of the moment.
Eckhart Tolle
#98. Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor's yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper.
Anne Lamott
#99. Sometimes it is easier when you can't see your hands or your arms. Sometimes it's easier when you don't try. Because it's too hard to talk when you are trying . too hard to say what you feel inside.
Brian James
#100. It is better to be alone then to be in a relationship, while you are trying to figure out what love means to you.
Shannon L. Alder
