Top 1200 Always Trying Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

For the first ten years of my career, or up to the point I did 'Local Hero,' I was always trying to be somebody else as an actor.

I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.

I'm not trying to be modest of self-deprecating or in any way trying to do that.

Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?

When I was coming up, we weren't trying to get a hit or get paid, we were just trying to do our thing. The only thing we were really trying to do was to be recognized for our originality.

On one-on-one, I'm either trying to get the first down or trying to score.

I'm not trying to represent the whole Latino community. There are too many different cultures, and Latinos will always say, 'My family doesn't do that.'

I'm not trying to find answers anymore. I'm trying to live what I know.

I always notice the dysfunctional dynamic of human relationships because most places where you encounter it, people are trying to pretend it isn't happening.

I'm always trying to slip out of those labels everyone tries to put round your neck. We all have multiple selves.

No matter how brilliant an actor is, there's always a point where they let you down, but that's all part of their journey. They might be trying something they need to explore.

I love the quality of TIDAL. I appreciate what they're trying to do and what they're trying to accomplish.

Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.

I have superfine, superoily hair, so my struggle is always trying to get the volume I want. I end up not doing much with it ever.

I'm always trying to convince myself there's something important about what I do. But some peoples' lives are really altered by a night at the theater.

What Im trying to say is that what makes you up, its always been around, and it always will be around. So really the only thing you should worry about is the part you're at right now. Where you got a body and a head and all that bullshit. Just worry about living, dying is the easy part.

I'm always trying to encourage people not to limit themselves in the same way that many of our parents stayed with one job forever.

When people got old, why did they always develop a passion for scrabbling in the earth? Were they trying to get used to it?

Every book changes my writing because I'm always trying to do something I didn't do before. I try to do what's hard for me, what I haven't done in the past.

The trouble with most of us is that we stop trying in trying times.

Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.

I can't imagine anything worse than trying to impress a girl with dinner. To be honest, I'm always impressing myself, not other people.

I'm not trying to convey a message, I'm just trying to tell a story.

Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

I'm not trying to be the younger, blonder version of anyone. I'm trying to be Tomi.

I'm trying to be myself, trying and be aggressive no matter what percentage I'm shooting.

We need to never consider ourselves as having 'arrived'; always trying to learn how we can change to be more like Christ

London cabs always dis me. I purposefully give them a good tip because I'm trying to straighten up the image where they don't want to pick up some shady-looking, bummy kid like myself. I'm trying to teach them that if you pick up the bummy-looking kid, you still get tipped, man. But they still jerk me around.

I'm trying to put on for my city. I'm trying to do what Drake did for Toronto.

You always think, no matter how many times you fail, that the next time you will succeed. Otherwise you wouldn't keep trying.

By this method thousands of humans have been brought to think that humility means pretty women trying to believe they are ugly and clever men trying to believe they are fools. And since what they are trying to believe may, in some cases, be manifest nonsense, they cannot succeed in believing it and we have the chance of keeping their minds endlessly revolving on themselves in an effort to achieve the the impossible.

I was trying to prove to them and to myself that I was still who I had always been. I was beautiful, if fat. I was smart, if loud. I was good, if ruined.

At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.

I'm always trying to find something new for my customers. Every season, I try to top myself and push it a little further.

In the '90s, there was always this continuous pitting of women against each other in the media, trying to make them battle it out.

I am always floating around trying to tend to everyone and be free while at the same time enjoying some space.

When I was a kid, my mother used to say, 'You always want to be different.' I couldn't work out what she meant. I was just trying to be myself.

We're always trying to really ground it, and I use this term a thousand times, it's a score I want people to feel and not necessarily hear.

As a child, people were always trying to photograph and film me because it's a way for a shy person to find themselves.

I've always written the storyboards for the music videos, and it's been hard working with directors trying to get them to understand what I'm thinking.

If you go into something saying, 'I'm the bad guy,' you do yourself a disservice as an actor. It's always about trying to find the humanity in a character.

I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least, especially if you want a family. You're trying to pack a lot in.

There's only so many things you can do with fights, so I'm always trying to shake it up and find something different, new, exciting and fun.

I'm not trying to be an action star, and I'm not trying to be a romantic-comedy guy.

I'm not trying to get five medals. I'm not trying to be Michael Phelps.

Half of the misery in the world comes from trying to look, instead of trying to be, what one is not.

There's something about the kind of unconditional wild joy of creating that you have with your siblings that I am always trying to get back to.

I'm hard-nosed about luck...If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost always make your own fortune.

You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficult in life

I'm not just trying to be a good game manager. I'm trying to be great.

If you ask my dad, I'm always the person that found the little bird out of the nest and is trying to put it back or take care of it.

It's always interesting to see a director trying different things, and on top of it, doing it right each and almost every time.

Trying to always be the nice guy, to appear good, can be limiting. Avoiding confrontation has closed up a number of possibilities for me.

I've always felt that I shot the ball well from distance, but it's just having the opportunity to finally do so. It's great and I'm trying to take advantage of it.

When I come off the ball screen, I'm always trying to draw another defender, so where I can get my teammates open, and if not, I can score the basketball.

You're trying to bring a character to an audience, and tell stories. That's what we're all trying do.

Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture.

Growing up, I was always trying to catch a great show. And that's where I learned an artist gets respect. That's what makes people talk.

I always dreamt of being a girl. One of my earliest memories is spinning around in my mom's skirt trying to look like a ballerina.

I always tell people, never wear anything that'll make them uncomfortable when you're trying to go out and have a good time.