Trying Quotes

My life is in shambles. It is crazy. It couldn't get any crazier. I'm just trying to stay sane.

For the most part, I try to be healthy and eat good things, but if you give me a baguette and some Camembert, I'm gonna eat it.

I'd rather try and not win than not try at all

I don't have to try to be perfect because I know that my fans like me for who I am. They like me because I am weird and kind of funky, but still really calm.

I see myself as a journalist reporting neglected stories about our past and trying to bring rigor, reason and intuition to the quest.

Everything we are afraid to try, all our unfulfilled dreams, constitute a limitation on what we are and could become.

I'm going to try to be better than I ever was.

There still is a war on women in terms of politicians in Washington and the state legislatures trying to eliminate any rights we have fought to win and that the Supreme Court has afforded us.

You have to be confident, but there are no easy at bats. There are no lay ups; there is no wide open pass. There is a guy on the mound who is trying to feed his family.

Life is short, very short, and what are we doing here if not trying to become more generous and loving?

I try to improvise like Les Young, Louis Armstrong or someone else I admire. What comes out is what I feel.

If meditate on the third eye and have headaches it means you are trying to pull in too much power from the occult chakra. The danger is obsession.

Whether you're trying to excel in athletics or in any other field, always practice. Look, listen, learn - and practice, practice, practice. There is no substitute for work, no shortcut to the top.

The technical stuff is easy to deal with, it's just supplemental to the plight - it's not a real thing, it's just background to what we're really trying to do.

I get way too sensitive when I get attached to someone. I can detect the slightest change in the tone of their voice, and suddenly I’m spending all day trying to figure out what I did wrong.

There would be no population explosion if people who are trying to keep the wolf from the door wouldn't let the stork fly in through the window.

Sometimes I try my hand at turning out small profundities and uncertain short stories, but I always end up with just one single word: God.

So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point

We're all living contradictions, trying to survive in a world filled with hypocrites

Trying to play the new concept with a outward bound feeling.

Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.

To do something well is so worthwhile, that to die trying to do it better cannot be foolhardy

I think it's important to try to be present with whatever it is you're doing. And if you can't be present, take a break.

I wonder why we are always sort of ashamed of our best parts and try to hide them. We don't mind ridicule of our 'sillinesses' but of our 'sobers'.

I'm glad I've given up drugs and alcohol. It would be awful to be like Keith Richards. He's pathetic. It's like a monkey with arthritis, trying to go onstage and look young.

I feel like with every character, you try to put yourself in that person's position and just completely use your imagination. That's what I do, at least. Everything is just pretend.

I think my life has been a long, slow process of trying to move closer and closer to the spirit by moving closer and closer to the heart. The heart is what's important.

I'm just playing ball. Trying not to think about it too much.

Rather than understand the original cause-a thought-we try to change the stressful feelings by looking outside ourselves.

It seems disrespectful to me to see ladies in church in very short skirts or skimpy, sleeveless tops. I would imagine that it could be distracting to men who are trying to keep their minds on God.

I go crazy trying to energize people, 'cause that's what I am. I'm a battery. If you're down, you can plug into me and get charged up.

The people at the NSA aren't trying to ruin your life. They're not trying to put you in authoritarian dystopia. These are normal people trying to do good work in hard circumstances.

My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal.

Women are playing [hockey] because they love it, not because they’re trying to be a woman in a man’s game.

I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.

At first I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice I guess.

When somebody gives you a sexy look, you know they're trying. It's terrible! But when you smile, it's so much sexier!

I’m trying to do better than good enough.

What is life unless you're having a good time? I don't really have a plan; I just try to dip my toes in different ponds.

Come in. And try not to murder any of my guests.

Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery?

Failure is nothing but success trying to be born in a bigger way. Most seeming failures are just installments toward victory!

I'm trying to make some sense out of the phrase "Everything happens for a reason," and I think I've figured out what the reason is - to pissed me off.

I just try to approach and serve the music in the way that I think is right for the band I'm in at the time.

I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

One of the reasons for putting yourself on the line, is that life is not simply treading water... I always felt that once you reach a certain point, you have to try and move ahead.

He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others:So they will try to reduce all others to their own level.

I try to forget what happiness was, and when that don't work, I study the stars.

This is my report on how to live... They say the best way is just to live one day at a time... If you try to live seven days at a time, the week will be over before you know it.

To make even fewer friends try talking about politics as much as you talk about yourself.