166 Quotes on Trying

• When I'm writing, sometimes it gets to that place where I feel like the piece is writing itself and I'm trying not to get in the way.

  Author: John Zorn

• Using these toolkits is like trying to make a bookshelf out of mashed potatoes.

  Author: Jamie Zawinski

• I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best.

  Author: Townes Zandt

• I'm exhausted trying to stay healthy.

  Author: Steve Yzerman

• You have that one basic string, but it can vibrate in many ways. But we're trying to get a lot of particles because experimental physicists have discovered a lot of particles.

  Author: Edward Witten

• I'm not trying to be some kind of underground renegade.

  Author: Alex Winter

• I'd been trying for all of the eight years we'd been married to have a child, and finally I did.

  Author: Marie Windsor

• I'm trying to get out of my own way.

  Author: Lucinda Williams

• One of the things that I have learned since trying to bring in an interesting story in under 28 pages is that we already agree on great chunks of typical superhero stories.

  Author: Bill Williams

• Without trying, I'm different.

  Author: Paul Wellstone

• We're trying to get to the bottom of where the picture came from, and we're trying to get to the bottom of what it's of and who it's of.

  Author: Anthony Weiner

• Like I said, I'm just trying to continue to improve and get better.

  Author: Karrie Webb

• Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

  Author: Alan Watts

• Sometimes I get worried I'm getting too caught up in the nauseatingly oily smoothness of my own line, when all I'm trying to do is make it as clear as possible.

  Author: Chris Ware

• I'm just trying to make a buck like everyone else.

  Author: Tom Waits

• It's like trying to pin down a kangaroo on a trampoline.

  Author: Sid Waddell

• Believe in yourself and stop trying to convince others.

  Author: James Vega

• I'm just sittin here trying not to be unhappy.

  Author: Lars Ulrich

• I'm just going to do me; I'm not trying to do the Eminem thing, the D12 thing or the 50 thing.

  Author: Obie Trice

• What was important was trying to create something that families could watch together and enjoy together.

  Author: Emma Thompson

• 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.

  Author: Amber Tamblyn

• I checked out all types of tobacco trying to find one that would be easiest to live with, I ended up using pipe tobacco. It burned slower, and it wasn't as harsh on my throat... It also smelled better.

  Author: David Strathairn

• Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

  Author: W. Stone

• It's impossible to always get across what I'm trying to say, but, if I just stay honest, then I'm not going to look back on any of these interviews and wonder what I was trying to do or be.

  Author: Kristen Stewart

• The usual way - through a long series of rejections, revising my manuscripts, and kept trying again and again. Finally I was fortunate enough to find a good agent.

  Author: Danielle Steel

• We're trying to make a movie that's interesting.

  Author: Jason Statham

• I became comfortable with what I knew would be the process of trying to pick up the pieces of brain that were in the rubble and tried to make some mosaic out of the pieces and that that would be the trajectory.

  Author: Art Spiegelman

• It's just a campy blast. I just want to do as little as I can and make it good, and try not to sell out. I'm sure I will, but I'm just trying to postpone it.

  Author: David Spade

• I don't think I could live with myself if I stopped trying.

  Author: Shannyn Sossamon

• Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.

  Author: Logan Smith

• I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record.

  Author: Elliott Smith

• I'm trying not to put myself into anything I'm not 100 percent confident about.

  Author: Christian Slater

• I'm currently trying to direct my own material.

  Author: Tom Skerritt

• Like with Berle, he was always trying to steal the scene, get a little extra.

  Author: Phil Silvers

• All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room.

  Author: Martin Short

• Don't ever give up. You gotta keep trying, and never give up.

  Author: Ryan Sheckler

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

  Author: Tupac Shakur

• So to me it's very similar in terms of trying to distill within the image, those elements that are gonna form, hopefully, a compelling visual statement.

  Author: John Sexton

• Oh I am trying to remember, we would read the script after we did the show.

  Author: David Selby

• Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it.

  Author: Daniel Schorr

• We are always rushing to an appointment or trying to meet a deadline.

  Author: Menachem Schneerson

• I've always been a fighter. If you tell me I can't, I'll die trying to prove you wrong.

  Author: R. Salvatore

• They asked me why I was wearing heels, and I said, I'm trying to hide my ass. They gave me a prosthetic behind.

  Author: Michael Rosenbaum

• 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.

  Author: Roy Romer

• I gotta get working, you know? I've been too busy. I've been trying my hardest, but it's really tough.

  Author: Christy Romano

• I'm trying to find new ways to make this game more attractive.

  Author: Dennis Rodman

• We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.

  Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

• I'm trying to remain unfamous.

  Author: Anwar Robinson

• When I record an album I'm trying to get as close as possible to that perfect moment.

  Author: Lou Reed

• I always believed that I could make it or I would never have spent so many years trying to get here.

  Author: Helen Reddy

• No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.

  Author: Harold Ramis

• One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.

  Author: Francois Rabelais

• I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world.

  Author: Al Purdy

• We moved to Australia for two years though and that was a little bit tough trying to fit in.

  Author: Kelly Preston

• I'm not trying to be sexy. It's just my way of expressing myself when I move around.

  Author: Elvis Presley

• I'm trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It's so easy to get turned.

  Author: Elvis Presley

• I had just done what she does in the story just about a year earlier - I moved from New Jersey and came to New York and was working at a bar, and you know, trying to make it.

  Author: Piper Perabo

• I'd read the book and liked the book, but it made me really uncomfortable trying to picture myself in this part. Here's this guy who seems to be the embodiment of every single perfect guy.

  Author: Robert Pattinson

• We have been actively trying to have New York City host the 2012 Olympics.

  Author: George Pataki

• I just like to keep challenging myself, keep it varied. It's a craft, and I'm constantly trying to learn and get better at it.

  Author: Clive Owen

• Why do you always insist on playing while I'm trying to conduct?

  Author: Eugene Ormandy

• I'm trying to climb up both walls at once.

  Author: Charles Olson

• I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!

  Author: Pat Oliphant

• My main efforts focussed on trying to identify the rate controlling steps during the cell cycle. Crucial for this analysis were wee mutants that were advanced prematurely through the cell cycle and so divided at a reduced cell size.

  Author: Paul Nurse

• I am always trying to write.

  Author: Joanna Newsom

• Everyone is trying to do something that hasn't been done and that's a really good thing. You can only do so much with a story and some scripts don't give you the opportunities and other scripts do give you the opportunities to do things that haven't been done before.

  Author: Dennis Muren

• Are you trying to manipulate me? It's working.

  Author: Bridget Moynahan

• If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.

  Author: Viggo Mortensen

• I just consider myself a student, trying to learn more about it.

  Author: Roscoe Mitchell

• Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays.

  Author: James Merrill

• So what I do is supervise the boarding process trying to get the shows the way I'd like them to be. And in some cases I've completely redone a board myself even though I'm not credited for it.

  Author: Craig McCracken

• I intend to live forever, or die trying.

  Author: Groucho Marx

• In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.

  Author: Wellington Mara

• The point I'm trying to make is, I'm really quite neutral. I have not been conditioned.

  Author: John Lone

• I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.

  Author: John Locke

• St. Louis is more humid. But after a while, the heat started taking a toll on us, so we started rotating a little more up front trying to stay fresh out here.

  Author: Leonard Little

• I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing.

  Author: Richard Linklater

• When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

  Author: Abraham Lincoln

• I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.

  Author: David Letterman

• The file is a gzipped tar file. Your browser is playing tricks with you and trying to be smart.

  Author: Rasmus Lerdorf

• A winner never stops trying.

  Author: Tom Landry

• I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.

  Author: Sandy Koufax

• I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape.

  Author: Calvin Klein

• I like to live righteous. And I just want everyone to know I'm not trying to get out of anything.

  Author: Lil' Kim

• Well. I'm probably not loving myself like I should, but I'm really trying.

  Author: Chaka Khan

• You know, I like playing around with my voice and trying all different types of kooky voices.

  Author: Moira Kelly

• I didn't want to do it... I'd been trying to get out of TV for years!

  Author: Sally Kellerman

• I'm trying to put more elements of the essay into my writing.

  Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski

• The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves.

  Author: Walid Jumblatt

• The league, is doing well. It is just a matter of trying to sort some things out with my contract.

  Author: Cobi Jones

• We're not trying to top ourselves with each record, obviously.

  Author: Bruce Johnston

• I am just trying to find a way to make pictures.

  Author: Jasper Johns

• But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.

  Author: Waylon Jennings

• I've never been into what am I going to do next, trying to reinvent myself.

  Author: Janet Jackson

• Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.

  Author: William Inge

• Our starting point then was trying to find a way to incorporate mean reversion into the HoLee model.

  Author: John Hull

• I feel more confident about what we're doing as a band and what we're trying to do as a band and the way we're looking at it as a band.

  Author: Shannon Hoon

• I think everyone is trying to figure out who they are and their own thing.

  Author: Joshua Homme

• I like trying to get pregnant, I'm not so sure about childbirth.

  Author: Lauren Holly

• We grow small trying to be great.

  Author: David Hockney

• They're still in the game, and they're trying to get back into it.

  Author: Jimmy Hill

• We're trying to put ourselves in the best position to win, period, if not this year, next year.

  Author: Tom Hicks

• Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.

  Author: Katharine Hepburn

• When I was younger I was trying to do what I wanted to do, not what the game wanted me to do.

  Author: Thierry Henry

• I see a little better grooming. Some might even be trying a little powder.

  Author: Howell Heflin

• I'm like a child trying to do everything, say everything and be everything all at once.

  Author: John Hartford

• You can say we're trying too hard or that we didn't try hard enough, but we're not trying at all; we're just doing what we do.

  Author: Taylor Hanson

• Seriously, these days I tend to shut up in terms of external analysis and DO try to let things speak for themselves, while still trying to get some depth into them.

  Author: Peter Hammill

• I know that I've overfed myself trying to prop myself up because I'm exhausted.

  Author: Geri Halliwell

• While trying to protect the republic, the conspirators in Julius Caesar enable Mark Antony to triumph. In Rose Rage, the more Henry VI tries to fix things, the more they go wrong.

  Author: Edward Hall

• We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28 - no Q, no gadgets.

  Author: Paul Haggis

• I started trying to write when I was in second or third grade.

  Author: Margaret Haddix

• Trying to give back a little bit is important.

  Author: Mark Goddard

• I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.

  Author: Alberto Giacometti

• I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book.

  Author: Neil Gaiman

• I'm not trying to take Cate Blanchett down.

  Author: Megan Fox

• I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.

  Author: Richard Foreman

• I'm not a cheerleader. I'm not trying to pretend to be sweet and then come out and be bad. This is who I am.

  Author: Willa Ford

• I'm not trying to be the new anybody.

  Author: Steve Forbert

• I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

  Author: Ian Fleming

• I don't think anybody is wanting to put me back on the air. But I'm certainly out there trying.

  Author: Jamie Farr

• I don't know if I have a technique. I'm just trying to remember the words.

  Author: Dennis Farina

• Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way.

  Author: Brian Eno

• I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.

  Author: George Eliot

• How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?

  Author: Dwight Eisenhower

• On The Others, very atmospheric and probably mysterious is how I would say it felt to be on the set. It felt just a little uneasy, the atmosphere that we were trying to capture.

  Author: Christopher Eccleston

• We're trying to get good pictures. Don't worry very much about what I say.

  Author: Bob Dole

• You're never a loser until you quit trying.

  Author: Mike Ditka

• I'm in the process of trying to find something that I could do on my own.

  Author: Loretta Devine

• I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately.

  Author: Gavin DeGraw

• Focused. I'm a hustler. And my hustle is trying to figure out the best ways to do what I like without having to do much else.

  Author: Mos Def

• In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years.

  Author: Mac Davis

• I don't copy recipes without trying them out. I don't reprint without trying them again.

  Author: Elizabeth David

• I'm not going to get into the writer's skills or what he was trying to portray because that's not fair. I can only say what I felt was trying to be portrayed there.

  Author: Taylor Dane

• I think he was trying to produce more of a... sort of a cheaper image.

  Author: Alice Cooper

• Don't stare into a mirror when you are trying to solve a problem.

  Author: Mason Cooley

• I'm not trying necessarily to become a movie star; that wouldn't be bad but that's not the aim. I'm just trying to do interesting things and go into areas where I've not been before.

  Author: Phil Collins

• I'm just trying to do things that are interesting for me.

  Author: Phil Collins

• Well actually, we are working on the live album from the shows in Japan. I'm trying to get that finished.

  Author: Bootsy Collins

• But I'm not looking forward to trying to strike out a lot of guys.

  Author: Roger Clemens

• If you're trying to get someone who's sick with a fever off of a submarine and it's cold and raining outside, the only way in and out of a submarine, generally, is through a fairly narrow hatch.

  Author: Laurel Clark

• Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere.

  Author: Diane Cilento

• He comes to this other world and he has to reinvent himself. Again, it felt natural, even though I'd been working really hard trying to come up with something.

  Author: Michael Chabon

• I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous.

  Author: Max Cannon

• My thing is trying to convince them they can win.

  Author: Dick Butkus

• We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.

  Author: Ruth Brown

• I'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog.

  Author: Toni Braxton

• You never know with these things when you're trying something new what can happen. This is all experimental.

  Author: Richard Branson

• I certainly have been guilty of trying to sweep things under the carpet.

  Author: Kenneth Branagh

• Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you.

  Author: William Book

• Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you.

  Author: Erma Bombeck

• We will never be authentically angry or authentically fair while we are trying to be both at once.

  Author: Ray Blanton

• You know, Jesse Jackson is just trying to stir up a hornet's nest.

  Author: Kenneth Blackwell

• I don't go around trying to stir up foreign wars.

  Author: Conrad Black

• What makes a person sexy is when he's not trying to be sexy.

  Author: Juliette Binoche

• Do not wave stick when trying to catch dog.

  Author: Earl Biggers

• James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can.

  Author: Samuel Beckett

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

  Author: Alison Bechdel

• I was told once if I kept breaking things on my legs, that I wasn't going to be able to walk soon, you know? I wanted to be a pro skateboarder, but it was too hard. I was trying, but it wasn't going to happen.

  Author: Travis Barker

• There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

  Author: Francis Bacon

• I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.

  Author: Eddy Arnold

• Oh, who am I trying to kid? It's a madhouse. The minute those cameras go off, things just explode, everyone is just at each other in one way or another, in closets or cat fights here and there. It's nuts. You know, I can't be a part of it.

  Author: Richard Anderson

• There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't.

  Author: Tori Amos

• All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts.

  Author: Lloyd Alexander

• Know what you're trying to do before you do it. Turning knobs at random isn't enlightening any more than throwing paint at a wall blindfolded will let you paint a nice picture.

  Author: Steve Albini

• We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be.

  Author: Richard Adams

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