Always Trying Quotes

I think you're always trying to challenge yourself to do new things and not repeat yourself.

Every writer has his own voice. Other than that I'm always trying to do change-ups and publishers haven't always been happy about that.

As a director, you always want things to look good. You're always trying to make things look tidy. That's what we're all trained to do.

Music lives in me. Life is a song to me. I have the gift of rhyme, and I'm always trying to write and rhyme. Music is just natural everyday occurrence with me.

I was always trying to do things to make school fun.

I'm always trying to pop up in different genres, what interests me. Sometimes I just like to throw myself into new situations to see what it feel like.

I'm always trying to mentor young women. I speak on college campuses and I have events in my own studio where I open it up to women's groups to learn. I feel really strongly about it.

I don't [even] know the number of books on Abraham Lincoln. Ten thousand, twelve thousand? I have seen various numbers. It seems like every generation is always trying to come to terms with Lincoln.

I'm always trying to look for how I can find human stories that aren't just dramas.

I'm very independent, creatively, always trying to push myself - and I think that comes from my mother.

I have a lot of theories about the beneficial effects of fiction, but I'm always trying to get away from them a little bit.

I think you're just always trying to find really great, interesting female roles. That's the thing for me. You do have to think about what you're signing up for.

The human race is always trying this dodge of making everything entirely easy; but the difficulty which it shifts off one thing it shifts to another.

I love sports, and when I was playing soccer, I was always trying to be the leader on the team and the one who takes control.

You're always trying to find new stuff and new inspiration. If you don't really push and you don't try something that feels exciting, then it's not worth doing.

It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.

Men are always trying to make the world better or worse while most women are content just to live in it.

A lot of the men were upset or jealous of me because I got the girl. Men are always trying too hard. When I effortlessly get the girl, it pisses them off.

Part of my growing up was always trying to make my parents proud and always trying to keep them happy. I think part of what held them together was my involvement in sports.

I'm always trying to convince myself there's something important about what I do. But some peoples' lives are really altered by a night at the theater.

I'm always trying to bring unusual content to a different audience - a non-art-world audience.

If you're from South London you feel like you're always trying to win people over, so perhaps that underdog passion comes through.

I'm always trying to complicate things. For some reason I'll go, "Well, maybe I can get that in," and stuff like that. I always make it really hard for myself.

Part of me was always trying to prove that I belonged and prove that I deserved the job and prove that I could handle it. And that takes the fun out of it.

I'm a traditional country singer and we're always trying to make that a fresh and modern sound. That's always going to be the challenge with me.

I view my strongest competition as myself. You're always trying to top yourself, rather than worrying about what other people are doing.

One of the biggest lessons is to keep your feet on the floor. Just keeping grounded and not really getting above yourself and always trying your best to be yourself.

I'm always trying to find something unique or a project that I can do something unique in.

I think as a mature artist, you're probably always trying to undo the compromises of one's self [in general]. It's not necessarily to do with youth.

As actors we're always trying to use our creative imagination.

My hair dries straight naturally, so I'm always trying to find anything to give it volume or give it a little bit of bounce.

At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.

If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer.

I think the major device for me is that narrator's voice. I'm always trying to find a different kind of form to tell whatever story it is, and I wish that weren't so, because it drives me crazy.

Lyrical content is very important to me. I'm always trying to make sure the lyrics and music complement each other perfectly.

We were a very funny family. Humour was the tool with which my brother and I tried to get attention. We were always trying to be the funniest.

I'm always trying to work on scripts. I'm pretty selective. Sometimes maybe too much because I'm broke .

I'm always trying to remember that kindness goes a long, long way. I think that's something that people will definitely take out of this film as well.

I had two older brothers, so I was always competing with them. The guys I grew up with on the golf course, when I was 13, they were 15 or 16, and I was always trying to beat them.

I like embracing kind of normal forms but am always trying to approach them as if no one's ever done that before. As if I'm literally the first person to ever write a book.

I was always trying to win the world, but somewhere I lost you.

I was always trying to pick guys up. I'd ask guys out and stuff like that. I had no pride. I was the biggest lurch at dances, waiting for the ladies' choice. I'd lunge at my prey like a baby wolf.

I'm always trying out new stuff onstage. That's where I do all my writing.

The other thing [my psychology professor] said to me was that I was always very mindful of the person who was away from the group, that I was always trying to bring them in.

Businessmen are always trying to advance their business interests, but they are not running for Prime Minister.

We must always walk in the presence of the Lord, in the light of the Lord, always trying to live in an irreprehensible way.

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.

It's nice to have recognition for doing a good job, but at the end of the day, I'm just an actor and I'm doing my job and I'm always trying to get better at doing that job.

Even in traditional filmmaking, you're always trying to find novel ways of telling stories, and this is different.

Sometimes, a new toy, a new technology, will focus you. The world is always trying to draw you out, so you always have to remember to go in.