Trying Quotes

I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.

I always want to do different things. I'm always obsessed with trying to do different things.

If I'm on the court, I have to do what I do best and that's try to go hard to the basket.

I'm a workaholic, I always try to fill my time with projects.

I constantly remind myself that there are terrible movies out there. I try to watch them, some of them, to give myself an understanding of what not to do.

I compete only with myself, and I try to become a better human being. This is my goal.

You can make it if you try, push a little harder, think a little deeper.

When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything.

The world is not about Batman and Robin fighting the Joker; things are more complicated than that. And nothing is scarier than the people who try to find easy answers to complicated questions.

Cosmetic companies are trying to turn India into a nation of Albinos. No dark area on any part of the body. Except maybe our hearts. Got a cream for that?

Change happens not by trying to make yourself change, but by becoming conscious of what's not working.

The hip-hop that we grew up on is dead to a certain degree. I'm trying to keep it alive though, it's alive in the underground, but don't nobody know about it.

Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight.

The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought you could try.

Lest anyone try to convince you that God should be separated from the state, our founding fathers, they were believers. And George Washington, he saw faith in God as basic to life.

If you are pleased with what you are, you have stopped already. If you say, "It is enough," you are lost. Keep on walking, moving forward, trying for the goal.

Stop trying to distinguish the joy of meditation from the messiness of life. Begin to see the divine in everything. She is in the joy just as much as the misery.

I'm not a populist. But I try to present complicated issues in such a way that people know where I stand.

My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.

Be fearless in trying new things, whether they are physical, mental, or emotional, since being afraid can challenge you to go to the next level.

Until we learn to love others as ourselves, it's difficult to blame broken people who desperately try to affirm themselves when no one else will.

If you get into business solely to make money, you won’t. If you try to make a real difference, you’ll find success.

I'm a perfectly good carrot that everyone is trying to turn into a rose. As a carrot, I have good color and a nice leafy top. When I'm carved into a rose, I turn brown and wither.

I probably spent more money trying to do things that I didn't need to do.

We've replaced the proclamation of Christ with an easy-listening legalism of do more and try harder.

He's a blockhead who wants a proof of what he cannot perceive. And he's a fool a fool who tries to make such a blockhead believe.

I had to accept that I was an alcoholic, that was the main thing. I think you've got to. But I try not say that I'm an alcoholic. I prefer to say that it's a disease I've got.

My father was always talking about God, and I idolized my father, so I'd spend hours trying to have mental telepathy with God.

All I'm trying to do is wipe out heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, and obesity.

These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.

This is who I am. I'm not perfect. I don't want to try to be perfect.

You know people exaggerate that all is wild in Jamaica. I think that sometimes people fire a shot to try to make you nervous. They are not trying to hurt you.

When you're trying to create a career as a writer, a little delusional thinking goes a long way.

The ideal project does not exist, each time there is the opportunity to realize an approximation.

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.

I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.

A lot of people don't realize that when you're trying to lose weight, or just trying to stay fit, 85 percent of it is what you eat, and 15 percent of it is how you work out.

The tongue is very powerful, so what you say really is, and I really believe that. So I just try to say good things, and then things like this happen.

People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy.

Listen up and I'll tell a story about an artist growing old. Some would try for fame and glory; others aren't so bold.

The rules are drawn up by lawyers who are trying to protect the admirals and generals from the politicians; they’re not written by people who are worried about the guys on the ground getting shot.

Don't try to follow in my footsteps. Make your own footsteps! No one else can tell the stories that are inside of you except for you.

I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.

Stuttering and trying to find your thoughts, the imperfections make the performances better.

I'm just trying to matter.

Running has given me the courage to start, the determination to keep trying, and the childlike spirit to have fun along the way. Run often and run long, but never outrun your joy of running.

I'm going to Columbia University but I'm trying to keep that low-profile because I don't want weird people following me there. I want the experience of normal college life.

Trying to force things only disturbs your goals. Forcing will not help. Everything happens in its right time.