Trying Hard Quotes

Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.

If I win, it's because of my natural ability and if I lose, it's because I wasn't trying so hard.

Anubis frowned. He locked his very nice eyes with mine. “You’re not dead.” “No,” I said. “Though we’re trying awfully hard.

If you're not being rejected regularly - maybe you're not trying hard enough.

Your big picture will never be a masterpiece if you ignore the tiny brushstrokes. You're trying so hard to be successful that true success is eluding you.

Call you up in the middle of the night. It's awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.

I try to encourage actors to work harder off screen because that's where you find things.

Jargon is making it increasingly hard to understand what a public figure is actually trying to say

Wear something you feel gorgeous in and don't try too hard; it's much sexier when it appears effortless. Clothes that don't fit, or don't fit the wearer's personality, don't help.

It is only in the case of the Priestly Code that opinions differ widely; for it tries hard to imitate the costume of the Mosaic period, and, with whatever success, to disguise its own.

I hear the birds on the summer breeze, I drive fast I am alone in the night Been trying hard not to get into trouble, but I I've got a war in my mind So, I just ride

For anyone who has that calling and is trying also to make a living at it, it is really hard.

It's not just how hard you try, it's how well you will succeed from trying hard.

The things that led me to run for office - trying to figure out how we create an economy where everybody's got a fair shot and if you work hard, you can achieve your dreams.

And there is distrust in Washington. I am surprised, frankly, at the amount of distrust that exists in this town. And I'm sorry it's the case, and I'll work hard to try to elevate it.

I find people interesting. People trying hard are interesting. People with a passion are interesting - whether its old cars or taxidermy or knitting.

There is no harm in dreaming of becoming the world's best player. It is all about trying to be the best. I will keep working hard to achieve it but it is within my capabilities.

When something has been perfect, there is a tendency to try hard to repeat it.

The President so far has struck me as a man who is trying hard to keep his balance. He certainly has been very receptive to all my efforts in these directions.

One of the ideas I've clung to most of my life is that if I just try hard enough it will work out.

I try hard to be a good Catholic.

I mean, its hard to be an actor in the city - trying to make it as an actor - because you waitress all night, you get home really late and you're super tired and your feet hurt.

The modern film tries too hard to be real. Its techniques of illusion are so perfect that it requires no contribution from the audience but a mouthful of popcorn.

I don't have to live the roller coaster other people live with my life. It's hard because people try to have an effect.

I challenge every business person in America who has ever complained about the failure of the welfare system to try to hire somebody off welfare. And try hard.

As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate!

I'm a firm believer in if you work hard you should play hard. So I try to keep my life as balanced as possible to keep my sanity.

I just go out every day and try to work hard.

People just don't know how to write down a simple easy line. It's difficult for them; it's like trying to keep a hard-on while drowning - not many can do it.

I have to stop watching the Olympics. It just reminds me that I forgot to try really hard at something.

So when you try hard to make your own way, you will help others...before you make your own way you cannot help anyone, and no one can help you.

I am trying hard to better my performances every match.

The biggest risk I've ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn't going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out.

Fate is a future you didn't try hard enough to change.

I try to be cynical, but it's so hard to keep up.

It can be said unequivocally that good teaching is far more complex, difficult, and demanding than mediocre research, which may explain why professors try so hard to avoid it.

I try very hard to be fair, and I look for ironies. In a way, I live on ironies as a novelist.

Stop trying to be different. Just do what you are good at, and work really hard. You have to work hard to be chaos.

Balance is if you try hard, you work hard then the rewards are in balance with what you put in and what is available.

I was taught to work hard and to be honest, and that's what I try to do, so that's it.

You can be an artist, work hard for your work and also share while trying to create community with other artists.

So consumed in all your doom, trying hard to fill the emptiness.

The power of now can only be realized now. It requires no time and effort. Effort means you're trying hard to get somewhere, and so you are not present, welcoming this moment as it is.

It's interesting to watch myself with an audience; I'm trying hard to learn from it.

If you run a website that doesn't have something that's terrible on it, you are not trying hard enough. You have to fail, fail, fail. You have to fail and fail miserably many times.

If you haven't failed, you're not trying hard enough.

I'm trying to change the culture in New York City; that's hard enough!

Trying to please everyone can be very hard, but, like Shrek or The Simpsons, Robin Hood manages to entertain adults and children at the same time, but in different ways.

I think writers can respond by writing about the refugee crisis, by looking at problems faced by migrants, by trying hard to portray them as the human beings that they are.

If I wasn't a champion, I'd still be in jail. That makes me try very hard.