Trying Quotes
I auditioned for a Pepsi commercial, and I got it, and that was incredibly fun. So I thought, Well, maybe I should try this acting thing.
What I do on my solo stuff is just the most natural version of who I am, and I’m trying to represent the feelings that I’m feeling as purely as possible
I still believe in Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and true love. Don't even try to tell me different.
Too much of our time is spent trying to chart God on a grid, and too little is spent allowing our hearts to feel awe. By reducing Christian spirituality to formula, we deprive our hearts of wonder.
What?” Simon looked alarmed. ”I‘m not really sleeping with your mom, you know. I was just trying to get your attention. Not that your mom isn’t a very attractive woman for her age.
If you really love something, you never try to keep it the way it is forever. You have to let it be free to change.
Right now I'm trying to figure out what I'm gonna do, 'cause I don't want to sit around on my backside all day. If I'm gonna do that I'll be a newspaper reporter.
If you tell me you are going to kill yourself, I'm not going to try to talk you out of it.
Until we have established reliability there is no sense at all in wasting time trying to make the thing go faster.
One of the major reasons why people are not doing well is because they keep trying to get through the day. A more worthy challenge is to try to get from the day.
I'm a working woman of 80 trying to work out what the image I can project is. How I can do it with, you know, dignity.
You know, I try not to look back, because looking forward is so much better than looking backward.
If you try to use Christ as a solution to your problems, it will not work. You have to serve Him in order for Him to serve you.
Every day I wake up and I really try to pinch myself to take advantage of today and to use that freedom of gesture to do what I really like to do.
Don't try to be fancy. Shoot for the center of mass. The world is full of decent people. Criminals we can do without.
Governors have to balance budgets. And they have to make decisions. And they have to do things that sometimes aren't popular. And they also have to bring people together to try to solve problems.
A creature revolting against a creator is revolting against the source of his own powers-including even his power to revolt...It is like the scent of a flower trying to destroy the flower.
Film is like a personal diary, a notebook or a monologue by someone who tries to justify himself before a camera.
Try to spend a few moments each day holding a picture of your body and your mind in a state of splendid health.
I know it's important to do more than just complain when there's something you don't like. You need to try to do something about it, or you're nothing but a whiner.
All companies would be better off if they stopped trying to be amazing and just focused on being useful.
When you start you're trying to achieve staying alive and getting home. If you can do both of those, then you stand a chance of breaking the record.
What I do when speaking in public is trying to do it as best as possible and trying to make everybody comfortable with my words. Sometimes getting this is very difficult, but I try my best.
I had a certain kind of disassociation from the other kids because I had more interest in sociology, ideas and trying to communicate those ideas to the kids around me.
Watch yourself as you go about your daily business and later reflect on what you saw, trying to identify the sources of distress in your life and thinking about how to avoid that distress.
I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.
I think the varied backgrounds in the beginning were a plus. It took a while for people to understand what they were trying to do and get started, but it did provide for a lot of new ideas.
If you worry about what everyone is trying to do, you become a spectator and not a player.
No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.
Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice...it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous.
Satan's primary temptation strategy is to try and make us forget what God has said about us and to evaluate our standing before God by some other criteria
Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and seeing whether they match.
I think I still keep my sense of wonder, which I call childlike, not childish, childlike. I still have a vivid imagination, and I like to try a lot of new things.
Always, my mother said, "Be yourself." That is sometimes the hardest thing to do. I try to always remember that and come back to that and have strength in who you are. There is only one you.
You have to emote much more to get what you're trying to get across to come through a quarter inch of latex that's superglued to your face.
After the years of me trying to figure out what I wanted to do with myself, I knew I had to go back and fix some things. I can't just be super-rich or whatever and not do the right thing.
Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.
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.
I'd say to anyone trying to break into the business: Don't just be interested in movies. Be interested in life. Be a person. Be in touch.