Top 1200 Trying Everything Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

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

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

When you feel good, everything around you is good, when everything around you is great, everything makes you happy. You are loving everything that is around you, because you are loving yourself. Because you like the way you are. Because you are happy with your life. You are happy with the movie that you are producing, happy with your agreements with life. You are at peace, and you are happy. You live in that state of bliss where everything is so wonderful, and everything is so beautiful. In that state of bliss you are making love all the time with everything that you perceive.

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

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

When you go to a show, Americans in New York are very proper, much more so than the French. Everything is perfect. Their hair, the nails, everything. The look. Everything is perfection.

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.

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.

I think you set up certain standards. I've always kind of believed in the Neil Pert way of making records where I'm trying to step it up every time I do something. You're trying to better yourself. You're also trying to make your audience or your listeners more interested. So, if you can up it, I think that's important.

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.

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

When you're attacking a router on the internet, and you're doing it remotely, it's like trying to shoot the moon with a rifle. Everything has to happen exactly right. Every single variable has to be controlled and precisely accounted for. And that's not possible to do when you have limited knowledge of the target you're attacking.

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 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.

I'll always work with Stones Throw, but I'm trying to start my own label to release my old material and sign new artists. I want to do everything from rock, to jazz, to electronic, to noise records and movie sound tracks. Both sampled and original music.

'One Hundred Years of Solitude' convinced me to drop out of Harvard graduate school. The novel reminded me of everything my Ph.D. program was trying to make me forget. Thank you, Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

For me, it's about trying to do everything I can to help us win. Try to bring that energy every night, try to make it as contagious as possible and try to win a game.

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.

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

I'm more interested in the diversity of people in New York. I like to be lost. I like to feel like a foreigner. I like not to know everything. I'm trying not to burn the whole city. I try to consume it in slow motion.

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.

I'm always practicing lines, researching, trying to be fresh, and fully trying to become the characters I play. That's how I roll.

I took a shot and tried to create something world changing and it didn't work out. I gave it everything I had, literally, and now I'm just trying to manage day by day and it's been challenging but my wife and my kids are healthy, and I'm OK.

Everything's a business. Love, truth, beauty. Conversation is a business. Spirituality is not a business, so it's going to go against the grain of people who are trying to exploit other people.

Totally. I think things are beautiful when you don’t plan them, and you don’t have any expectations, and you’re not trying to get somewhere in particular. You’re just enjoying it, and making something because you love it, and love the people that you’re playing with. I guess everything happens as a reason.

Same thing with film, by the time you've finished shooting and you've really been into everything, you've touched up everything in the editing room. You've gone in there and taken little bits from everything.

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

Back in those days, all us skinny white British kids were trying to look cool and sound black. And there was Hendrix, the ultimate in black cool. Everything he did was natural and perfect.

The actions of the police division today will be to assist the church for the funeral. We anticipate that a fairly large crowd will be outside the church and the general area, ... We're trying to approach everything with common sense.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Stylistically, we're trying to push things in different ways, but it always comes out sounding like Tool no matter what we're trying to do.

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

I love everything about my body. Every bit of it... the cellulite, the stretch marks, everything that I thought at one point was an imperfection, I now realize is everything that makes me unique.

I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and I love everything with more passion.

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.

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

Through people that I did know or through things that I did touch, I am connected with everything that ever was and everything that ever will be. Everything hangs together with everything.

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.

Investing is not a natural science but rather a social science. So, it's never purely empirical; what you are trying to do is everything you possibly can to enhance your probabilities of being right more often than being wrong.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I admire my boss, Lorne Michaels. He never stops producing. I think, for him, comedy is a tool of compassion, a way of rallying people together and saying, 'Guys, isn't the world bonkers? Aren't we all just trying our best?' There's a tenderness in everything he does.

Music was everything. Now it is just not as important as it used to be. When I was growing up, where everyone was trying to outdo each other by being more outrageous and sounding more different, now there is a homogeneous sameness to it all.

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

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.