Trying Quotes And Sayings

Quotes And Sayings About Trying

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And so about many other things of the same nature, we are trying to make people believe these things, and we make creeds of them; and thus we continue to do our own will, which is the ground of all sin.
~By Elias Hicks ~


First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.
~By Marilyn Monroe ~


Some researchers sensibly suggest that rather than worrying too much about which programs our children are watching, we should concentrate on trying to reduce the total amount of time they spend in front of the screen.
~By Hugh Mackay ~


I tell my staff, we're riding a tour bus around, and we're going to stop and look at some weird stuff - but we're taking our viewers around safely. They're just looking out the window at it. I'm trying to create a sense of comfort for my center audience.
~By Chris Matthews ~


I'm seeing and hearing lots of B to B instruments, and everybody isn't, you know, using them... a lot of these guys are trying to do it on conventional guitars, although that has its own sound, and maybe its okay.
~By John Sebastian ~


To stay interested in acting, I have to keep trying stuff I've never done before.
~By Jessica Lange ~


I said, God, the press and people, they just really hate me and I'm really trying. Geraldine Page said, Listen to this, Tab. If people don't like you, that's their bad taste.
~By Tab Hunter ~


The reason that I'm an actor, or an artist, is ultimately because I'm trying to paint a self-portrait, and the most complete and beautiful self-portrait that you can.
~By Terrence Howard ~


Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.
~By Phyllis McGinley ~


I'm still trying to figure out what the right line is between myself and the people I play. Sometimes I go too far one way or too far the other.
~By Maggie Gyllenhaal ~


If you hear Bing Crosby trying to swing, it doesn't work. He swings like a rusty gate.
~By Frank Stallone ~


Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.
~By Ron Dellums ~


Memphis is a great town, man. There's a great musical community here. I'm trying to fit in.
~By Charles Moore ~


But tending machinery was one thing; defining what we were trying to do and why we were doing it, and developing ways to measure how well the job was done - this was something else again.
~By Elliot Richardson ~


I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.
~By Arnold Palmer ~


I don't have them down here asking me what my urban agenda is. I don't find them really doing in-depth stories on community-based organizations that have been struggling for a long time and who are out trying to get funds. They aren't interested in those stories.
~By Maxine Waters ~


I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.
~By Steven Wright ~


We'd play at the Ambassador's house for an invited group of dignitaries from the government that might have gone to school in America; to the U.S. Consulate that invites certain people that they're trying to target.
~By Bob Livingston ~


You know the first time I sat in the chair I felt anything but up, it was very emotional for me. I had a chair in my hotel room, a chair at rehearsal, and I was trying to spend as much time as I could in the chair.
~By Gregory Hines ~


All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.
~By Tupac Shakur ~


I'm trying to forget how much that cost, but I just had to have them.
~By Keith Sweat ~


With attention deficit democracy, I am trying to wake up people to how the combination of mass ignorance, fear mongering by the government, and lying politicians is putting our entire system of government to a death spiral.
~By James Bovard ~


I began as a model, but that did not really hold my interest for too long! I believe I stood out from the parade of models trying to make it in Hollywood, which helped launch my career beyond the one-night-stand horror movie.
~By Natasha Henstridge ~


Basically, we are a whole world of people desperately trying to figure out what is the dark side of our natures and how much can we explore without becoming something else.
~By William Petersen ~


Of course, the wind sort of swept up and the music was flying around in mid air and they were trying to play off it. You had to be there. It was quite funny.
~By Roy Wood ~


I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.
~By Lee Iacocca ~


I think the most difficult thing had been scaling the infrastructure. Trying to support the response we had received from our users and the number of people that were interested in using the software.
~By Shawn Fanning ~


Readers respond to every genre intensely, if it's a genre that appeals to them. Again, who can say why anyone enjoys horror and dark fantasy? If I can't answer the question for myself, I wouldn't dream of trying to answer it for others.
~By Laurell K. Hamilton ~


Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist.
~By Sean Lennon ~


People think that because I write about India I must be trying to portray India in a way.
~By Anita Desai ~


I think people are tired of politicians trying to poke each other in the eye.
~By Mark Warner ~


I want to warn against the Fifth Column which is trying to hinder our free way of life in Holland.
~By Theo Van Gogh ~


There is nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitor.
~By Frank Howard Clark ~


I have observed private and proprietary colleges, like the University of Phoenix, and the market they serve. And I found it intriguing the way in which they are trying to deliver the product, with more accountability, for a price.
~By Roy Romer ~


These terrorists aren't trying to kill us because we offended them. They attack us because they want to impose their view of the world on as many people as they can, and America is standing in their way.
~By Marco Rubio ~


I'm trying to finish my book on the Kennedy assassination.
~By Vincent Bugliosi ~


I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I'll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city or the country, kind of trying to get lost basically. Y'know, just see where roads lead.
~By Frank Black ~


It's a very, very fascinating story for me, cause it's about a man who's been doing bad; bad things. And he's a father of four children in parochial school, he's a lieutenant of detectives, but he's in conflict with himself and with trying to do what's right.
~By Harvey Keitel ~


Any time you're trying to do a movie with a happy ending, it's very difficult because it's been done before and you don't want to be manipulative.
~By Tim Robbins ~


We're trying to make a movie that's interesting.
~By Jason Statham ~


So one day, in a fit of trying to do something different, I just dyed my hair dark brown and got my first role a week later, after which I thought: 'People are closed-minded, man! Like a different hair colour changes everything!'
~By Emma Stone ~


Forget trying to be sexy. That's just gruesome.
~By Colin Firth ~


My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.
~By Wynonna Judd ~


I am endlessly busy, bringing up five young kids, and trying to keep up with the three older ones. I still spend most of my life driving car pools.
~By Danielle Steel ~


I'm not trying to be the next Joan Rivers.
~By Isaac Mizrahi ~


They've got great parents; I'm just trying to be the fun uncle.
~By Sarah Silverman ~


It's sort of an action flick. You can't be that funny trying to steal diamonds.
~By Anthony Anderson ~


The truth of the matter is, all of those guys on Star Trek: The Next Generation actually want to be me. These impersonations they do are just some way of trying to feel what it must be like to be me. And I understand that! Because it feels really good to be Patrick Stewart!
~By Patrick Stewart ~


I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images.
~By John Shirley ~


I pray that this council, which will probably be too late to save Iraq, will do what it can, which will be immeasurably strong in what it does in trying to save our democracy.
~By Ed Asner ~


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


I'm trying not to put myself into anything I'm not 100 percent confident about.
~By Christian Slater ~


Our starting point then was trying to find a way to incorporate mean reversion into the HoLee model.
~By John Hull ~


What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives.
~By Tracy Kidder ~


That's one of my jobs, just trying to do what I can to help this team out as much as possible.
~By Cobi Jones ~


You know, I'm the 1st black solo MC from Detroit. I didn't do the 50 Cent sales but hey... I got a long career, I'm still young and I'm trying to bring really good music.
~By Obie Trice ~


Well, of course it was a very trying time for me, and fortunately I had a lot of people who were supportive. A lot of people who were writing and calling and saying they were praying for me. Some people sent me Scripture, and that helped.
~By Anita Hill ~


When we rehearse, we're always trying to aim for something else. But we never quite succeed in getting there.
~By Colin Greenwood ~


Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.
~By Helen Rowland ~


Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence.
~By Lance Secretan ~


I would never withhold information about the murder of my man Biggie, or anybody else. It's just silly and ridiculous. The accusations are just flying out. All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music.
~By Puff Daddy ~


Well, you know, certain - for one reason, I think that the intervention process is a good process for most people, but for me, it just looked like a bunch of my friends trying to get back at me and sit around taking jabs at me, you know, when I couldn't defend myself.
~By Tanya Tucker ~


I try not to be but I'm super-neurotic about diet. I'm neurotic about trying not to be neurotic! I'm like every other girl. I have to try really hard my whole life to try to be fit. And I'm super-vain. And I want to wear cute clothes.
~By Gwen Stefani ~


Each simian had a much different body suit, so besides trying to define class across species, there was a definite attempt to dress each group in different styles.
~By Colleen Atwood ~


I'm afraid I'm still trying to find that balance. Especially now that everyone wants a piece of me. I find that I have to become more and more reclusive, and pick and choose when I am public and when I am private.
~By Sandra Cisneros ~


I think President Obama is trying to deceive the public in pretending that he was not a part of Congress that has made some decisions in the past that got us to where we are today.
~By Sarah Palin ~


When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman.
~By Alanis Morissette ~


When you're trying to pass on the best of the stuff you're culling to what should be a hungry culture but you have it diminished... that's kind of disappointing.
~By Joni Mitchell ~


I think about being married again, having a home and a wife. No one can ever be married too many times, and maybe if I keep trying I'll get it right one day.
~By Richard Pryor ~


I think that people need to have the courage of their convictions and not be trying to fool people into thinking that they've changed overnight.
~By Chris Bell ~


I was still interested in the youth rebellion but never-the-less I stopped being a victim. Stopped trying to attack the establishment realizing that it takes too much of your energy.
~By Vivienne Westwood ~


I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African.
~By Joanna Newsom ~


Orlando's a part of me. The next guy's a part of me. And the next guy's a part of me. That's all I'm trying to do, is tell cool stories that people can relate to.
~By Shemar Moore ~


It's like trying to describe what you feel when you're standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon or remembering your first love or the birth of your child. You have to be there to really know what it's like.
~By Jack Schmitt ~


I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past.
~By Len Wein ~


I've had it happen to me before where it turns out that they never had the money and couldn't have made the movie in the first place. And these are the things you have to look for when trying to read the behavior of the people you sit down with.
~By Robert Culp ~


The only difference was one of them was trying to make a perfect cake and one of them was trying to write a great book. But if we remove that from the equation, it's the same impulse and they are equally entitled to their ecstasies and their despair.
~By Michael Cunningham ~


'Through the times I've gone through the last couple of weeks - and I'm still trying to help a friend - I got attacked pretty hard through the media, and it hurt and it was devastating, but I really found out who was with me and who was there for me.
~By Michael Irvin ~


Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere.
~By Diane Cilento ~


I think health care is more about love than about most other things. If there isn't at the core of this two human beings who have agreed to be in a relationship where one is trying to help relieve the suffering of another, which is love, you can't get to the right answer here.
~By Donald Berwick ~


I find you write with one person in mind. Usually for me that one person is my wife, because she's my most severe critic and understands best what I'm trying to do.
~By Jonathan Carroll ~


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.
~By Jim Henson ~


I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.
~By Daniel Clowes ~


Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk.
~By Michael Eisner ~


I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs.
~By Steve Forbert ~


Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation.
~By Eileen Caddy ~


We've had public hearings. We've had interim reports, which our statute has encouraged us to provide to the public. We have brought the public along with us, trying to make as much available as possible over time.
~By Richard Ben Veniste ~


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!
~By Anna Chlumsky ~


When I started really singing I was 17, 18 years old. I used to go around trying to be a singer in the Bronx. My knees would shake but I learned by doing.
~By Dominic Chianese ~


I feel like I've reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I've been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I've been, and beyond it.
~By Cathy Freeman ~


I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt.
~By Boris Spassky ~


If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
~By Gustav Mahler ~


There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.
~By Frank Howard Clark ~


Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?
~By Alice Walker ~


We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.
~By Alan Bennett ~


That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
~By Bill Watterson ~


I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.
~By James A. Garfield ~


I got to draw monsters, robots and write funny stories. I loved doing that stuff and working with the actors. But it got to be less and less that stuff and more about trying to be everywhere and not being able to do one thing very enjoyably.
~By Jhonen Vasquez ~


Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
~By Robert Lynd ~


I don't know what I was trying to get out of a tenor - but it never really satisfied me until one day I picked up my alto and I said, "Where have you been?" and I said right here for now on!
~By Jerome Richardson ~

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June 7 ,2023
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