Top 1200 Always Trying Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cycles of revenge and animosity. And so, as a journalist, he always found himself asking lots of questions and trying to gather information. He was always very clear to underscore the fact that Jewish people and Arab people were brother and sister.

I can remember trying to coach, trying to figure out schemes, and it just wasn't coming to me.

I feel like I was trying to imitate other people or trying to be something I wasn't.

We must be trying to learn who we really are rather than trying to tell ourselves who we should be.

It's not like I'm just trying to win and get elected. I'm trying to change the course of history.

Trying to coach kindergarteners in soccer is like trying to herd cats.

I'm trying to take a positive out the disappointment, but I'm also trying to do what's best for my career as well.

The value of experimentation is not the trying. It's the trying again after the experiment fails.

I'm trying to show people that I'm a person, and I deal with the same things as you guys, and I'm trying to make the best of it.

We're trying to get the pandemic under control. We're trying to put people back to work. I don't find that boring.

I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director. I spent a lot of time for no money trying to teach myself how to write a script. It always felt like everybody was looking the other way and sneaking that script through the system, but it did well later on video and got another chance.

While I'm trying to be different, I'm trying to be very conservative at this point in my career.

Trying to trade during a losing streak is emotionally devastating. Trying to play 'catch up' is lethal.

I'm trying to be inspiring! I'm trying to lift your grubby soul for the great adventure that lies ahead of you!

I'm not trying to put on airs for anybody. I'm only trying to impress myself by doing the best job I can do.

I admit that through privilege, I've been racially ignorant. But I'm trying to learn and I'm trying to grow. It's what we all have to do.

I'm not trying to top anything. I'm trying to be useful, to play a positive role, to serve the public interest.

Trying to make the presidency work these days is like trying to sew buttons on a custard pie.

I'm not sure I'm trying to communicate a message. I'm just trying to be part of the movement away from the unacceptable present.

Another problem about writing about politics in the "age of globalization" is that so much of the violence in the form of war and also in the forms of institutional violence - sweatshops, child labor, victimization of people economically - happens elsewhere and out of sight. And when we do know about it and need to witness it, it's always mediated by images of one kind or another, so you're kind of stuck trying to write about what it's like trying to be you living your life thinking about and experiencing this stuff in that way.

Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish.

Everybody's out trying to be commercial. I'm not trying to be anything, really.

Trying to save a hater is like trying to teach astrophysics to a wino!

I don't like movies that are trying to preach and trying to tell you how to feel.

I wasn't trying to do a play or do what Kevin Spacey did. I was trying to do my own thing with it.

Trying to be number one and trying to do a task well are two different things.

I am interested in a lot of the same things people are interested in. I am trying to raise kids without them self-destructing. I am trying to hold the marriage together, and I am trying to take off the same 10 pounds everyone else is.

I spent the '90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony.

People are much less interested in what you are trying to show them than what you are trying to hide.

I'm not trying to be Tom Brady. I'm just trying to be Matt Cassel.

There's no more of an excuse for blaming other people or the world for at least not trying what you should be trying.

I'd spent so long trying to fit in,trying to be someone i wasn't,that i had no idea who i was any more.

My production company, what we are trying to do is I'm trying to create content that speaks to me, and it's not one color. It's not one size fits all.

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

On a serious note, we don't think we're trying to be so different, it's just that everyone else is trying to be same.

We're not trying to take power away or rule anybody - we're just trying to get up from under the rulers.

I wanted to get that Division I scholarship and play ball and go to school for free, and I was always about getting to that next step... I was always ahead of myself in some way, shape or form, and trying to envision how to get further along and closer to fulfilling that dream of being free and having creative agency, so to speak.

If you want to understand a difficult or trying person, begin by asking the question: 'What is the wound they are trying to heal?'

It's a league where guys are trying to play to the best of their ability, whether you're a superstar or trying to make the NBA.

When you are trying to do something when you are getting started and you are trying to make records for the first time, you want it to be the best.

What I'm trying to do, in my own small way, is trying to bring African and Afro-Cuban rhythms into rock.

trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.

I stopped trying to think about how the UFC operates. It's like trying to understand a woman.

Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.

Trying to make sense of love is like trying to dissect a rainbow.

Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen.

I'm trying to leave a legacy, man. I'm trying to get a gold jacket someday. That's my mindset.

TRYING TO BE POPULAR IN HIGH SCHOOL IS LIKE TRYING TO BE MAYOR OF A CITY THAT WON'T EXIST IN FOUR YEARS.

Black musicians were either trying to be American or trying to play down their Caribbean roots.

I watch 'Entourage.' I aspire the good life that they live and lead. Honestly, I am just trying to be me by trying to do good films, have fun at it and trying to work with good directors, and, of course, I am a bit of a silent party boy, also. I have my share of fun sometime, too.

Part of innovation is, fake it until you make it. Keep trying things, but it's not just the random trying.

The people on this planet that are trying to live their life, that aren't trying to destroy things, are in the 99.9-percent majority.

When I'm trying a new form- trying to do something I'm not used to doing, which was true of the novel.

Stock speculation is largely a matter of A trying to decide what B, C and D are likely to think-with B, C and D trying to do the same.

I'm trying to be a working actor. I'm not in pursuit of fame. I'm not trying to be in the kinds of films that make you famous like that.

The Greeks got into Troy by trying, my pretties; everything's done by trying.

I'm not trying to minimize things; I'm trying to bring them back to reality.

I'm trying to escape by forming my own kind of world. Basically, I'm trying to encourage others to do the same.

We're trying to make money, trying to add a zero onto our net worth.

We build camera rigs tailored specifically to the story we're trying to tell or the shot we're trying to capture.