Top 1200 Always Trying Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

If you don't have an emotional connection to why you are trying to accomplish your goals, the odds are you won't reach them or will quit trying.

Trying to demonstrate good leadership was not our raison d'etre. We're still just trying to make a comedy.

I have progressed. I have worked a lot in front of goal, trying to keep a cool head, trying not to force things.

The secret to understanding me is, I'm not trying to be anybody other than who I actually am. People want candid, refreshing leadership. And I've always tried to go with solutions. You know, I've always tried to say, here's how we get our economy growing, here's why we get our debt under control. That's what Mitt Romney is offering.

Trying to make things work in government is sometimes like trying to sew a button on a custard pie.

If I never am better then Kanye, in my brain, I'm always going to be trying to be, forever and ever until the day that I die.

Who are we talking about? We're talking about the people that are trying to criminalize Donald Trump. We're talking about the people that are trying to impeach him. We're talking about people who are trying to via innuendo and leak and media assassination, we're dealing with people that are trying to destroy Donald Trump and his press secretary just signaled that they are serious about reaching out to these people to try to get certain things done, legislatively, like infrastructure or tax reform.

Trying to observe the slow shift from self-centeredness to empathy is like trying to watch grass grow.

Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

I can't do tricks, but I absolutely loved trying, and one of my fondest memories growing up was trying to imitate Ronaldinho and do his dance.

Trying to make a movie like 'Warcraft,' and trying to do it in a unique way... you get killed by a death of 1,000 cuts.

I don't want to be known as someone who is deliberately trying to do things that are not commercial! That is not a good reputation to have when you're trying to be a working actor.

Trying to erase 53 years of being a macho aggressive guy to trying to be a woman, and this is greatest challenge of my life.

I'm not going to get into the writer's skills or what he was trying to portray because that's not fair. I can only say what I felt was trying to be portrayed there.

I am a believer in trying to treat people properly and trying to respond and making sure that I find the time to be courteous.

We're trying to impress ourselves in a way. That's why we keep trying to do things better... we never get satisfied.

In trying to justify the humanities, as in trying to live a life, what may turn out to matter most is holding one's nerve.

Trying to figure out God is like trying to catch a fish in the Pacific Ocean with an inch of dental floss.

I'm not trying to PREDICT the future. I'm just trying to PREVENT it.

Someone once accused me of trying to turn the sitcom into an art form, and I really believe that's what I was trying to do.

Three explanations dominate speculation about what Obama is up to. The first is that he's trying to lay the groundwork for his successor, presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton. The second is that he's trying to pad his legacy. The third is that he's trying to 'troll' or bait the GOP into debating his agenda rather than pursuing its own. All are plausible, and none necessarily contradicts the others.

I'm just trying to be myself. I'm not trying to be anyone else.

I'm trying to talk about challenging subjects people might not like and trying to find relief as we discuss it.

I'm not trying to represent all Muslim women. I'm trying to give voice to the silent majority. Unfortunately, I'm a bit loony.

Trying to help an oppressed person is like trying to put your arm around somebody with a sunburn.

Whenever you do a film, it's always like a little miracle. So many people getting together trying to do something so that the audience can be entertained.

I think fiction, for me, is a way of trying to understand why people do the things they do - and trying to explain what is, at heart, illogical.

I've kept my sanity in this business by trying out for a role and then going home and trying to forget about it.

Trying to get government to be as efficient as business is as hopeless as trying to teach cats to bark and dogs to meow.

I'm trying to do different music, and I'm trying to be out of the box.

There's something about football that's exciting. The defense is trying to shut you down and you're trying to blow people up.

People make a mistake saying I'm trying to break down barriers and change the game. I'm not trying to do any of that.

I just really am trying, trying, all the time. But I like to be scared. I love to suddenly feel out of control.

Can't you see the angel imprisoned in the block of stone trying to get out? I am trying to free him

Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think.

I'm not trying to prove myself, and I'm not trying to shock anyone.

I'm not trying to have no surgeries because I'm trying to impress somebody and I end up hurting or tearing my labrum or rotator cuff.

Football and school don't go together. They just don't. Trying to do both is like trying to do two full-time jobs.

You find when you're writing a detective story that you're actually not trying to solve anything. You're trying to stop the reader from solving the puzzle.

I made a lot of mistakes growing up, trying so hard to fit in. I got so lost trying to please everybody.

I made stupid decisions as a kid, or as a young adult, but I'm trying to be now, I'm trying to take this lemon and make lemonade.

We're not trying to be everything for everybody. We're not trying to please the masses.

I'm a goner, a kid who stays up half the night trying to figure out the horror of the world and trying to survive it.

I've always believed in trying to be as open as possible. I think it almost comes with the job - if you can bare your emotions, it makes for better acting.

You're always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that's maybe even too weird for your own taste.

Trying to compromise EXCELLENCE, is like trying to let a little bit of air out of a balloon with a hat pin.

No matter how dark it looks, no matter how long it's been, no matter how many people are trying to push you down; if you will stay in faith, God will always take you from Friday to Sunday. He will always complete what He started in you!

Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body

We're often accused of trying to manipulate opinion or that we're trying to elevate society. I think that the greatest thing we can do is to give you a vacation.

Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think

If you're injecting fear into other people, then you're trying to kill their minds. You're trying to get them to stop thinking.

Trying to understand superstition rationally is like trying to pick up something made of wood by using a magnet.

Get your work in, do what you need do, and get back up top. I'm a little bit behind the curve as far as not really having a spring training, so you're trying to get your work in, trying to work on things, and at the same time, you're also going out there trying to be competitive.

Good writing is often about trying to investigate something you feel is missing and trying to put it back.

We're not at the point of trying to stop global warming; it's too late for that. We're trying to keep it from becoming a complete and utter calamity

I always believe in trying something extra-ordinary and fighting against myself, gives me the biggest confidence boost.

The first mistake is trying to explain morality to a terrorist. Like trying to teach a rock to drive. It is impossible.

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.

When a storm blows, you must stand firm. For it is not trying to knock you down, it is really trying to teach you to be strong.

I will be happier if I crash by trying than not trying and running around behind the same guy for 70 laps.