Top 1200 Stop Trying Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished. 'm lucky to work in the most perfect of conditions. I can do what I want in all kinds of areas. The expenses are not expenses. I would be stupid to stop that. Work is making a living out of being bored.

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

Defensive backs are always trying to kill me, so I'm trying to get them first.

For crying out loud, stop comparing and start living! And you'll be happier with your life, I guarantee. This is crucial: the most difficult thing in the world is to be who you are not. Pretending and trying to be someone else is the official pastime of the human race. And the easiest thing in the world is to be yourself. Be happy. Live! There must be a reason why God made you tall or short or fat or thin or bumpy all over. Love who you are!

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

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

Never stop training, no matter what level you're at. Never, ever stop putting your talent under a microscope and asking, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah - I'm doing all this stuff right, but what's wrong with my acting?'

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

It doesn't matter who you are in this league: You're always trying to have a bigger role. Anybody who said they weren't trying to do that would be lying.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

When we're playing a good scoring center, we tell our team that it is not our defensive man's job to stop the center. It's the responsibility of our perimeter people to stop the ball from going inside.

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

I was never trying to be experimental or anti-anything; I was always trying to be real to things I was feeling.

I had at some point the epiphany that if I wanted to be a writer, maybe I should stop thinking about writing, or stop writing about writing, and actually write.

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

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

Everybody is going to be excited to play in a Super Bowl. When you still enjoy the preparation and the work part of it, I think you ought to be still doing that. I think as soon as I stop enjoying it, if I can't produce, if I can't help a team, that's when I will stop playing.

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.

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.

You're trying to bring a character to an audience, and tell stories. That's what we're all trying 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've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If my one hand stops working, I won't stop living my life. I will start using my other hand. Similarly, if one part of my life goes wrong, I won't stop leading my life.

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.

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.

When I talk to older people, they're like, 'you know what Karen? Life will always offer you new situations where you'll feel totally inexperienced.' But I think that's a good thing because without struggle you don't learn anything, and if you stop learning, you stop living, you know?

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

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.

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

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

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

And for me, it is a choice. I understand that for many people its not, but for me its a choice, and you dont get to define my gayness for me. A certain section of our community is very concerned that it not be seen as a choice, because if its a choice, then we could opt out. I say it doesnt matter if we flew here or we swam here, it matters that we are here and we are one group and let us stop trying to make a litmus test for who is considered gay and who is not.

It was just terrible! And the worst part was, I knew what a bore I was being, I knew how I was depressing people, or even hurting their feelings- but I just couldn't stop! I just could not stop picking!

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.

Trying to reason with an addict was like trying to blow out a lightbulb.

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.

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

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

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.