Top 1200 Trying So Hard Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

'AVP' is not trying to be 'Alien' or 'Aliens,' and it's not trying to be 'Predator.' Those are genius movies.

The solutions the non-profits are trying to provide aren't keeping pace with the problems they're trying to survive.

I always have this image of a woman running across a desert carrying children, trying to find water and food, not knowing when they'll get that. And her feet are slashed up from the dry, hard earth... Even when I'm uncomfortable, sometimes in pain, or just cold... I think, 'Thank God for what I've got.'

I'm not trying to please everybody. I'm just trying to play for one team and do it the right way.

I have goals, so you're always trying to see if you're on the right path to get where you're trying to go.

I don't look to save the world with any of the movies that I make. I'm not trying to make any political statement with the movies I make. I'm trying to have a good time. I'm trying to entertain people.

I'm not trying to prove anything. I'm just here with the Panthers, trying to help them win.

Read like mad. But try to do it analytically - which can be hard, because the better and more compelling a novel is, the less conscious you will be of its devices. It's worth trying to figure those devices out, however: they might come in useful in your own work.

If you are living for an ideal and driving yourself as hard as you can to be perfect - at your job or as a mother or as a perfect wife - you lose the natural, slow rythmn of life. There's a rushing, trying to attain the ideal; the slower pace of the beat of the earth, the state where you simply are, is forgotten

I buy a lot of random books, and it's really hard to immediately fall asleep if I've been staring at a screen, so reading and trying to put my phone away maybe an hour before I go to sleep are two of my go-to strategies before bed.

I'm the world number one, so everyone is trying to attack me and trying to speed up.

I was 12 years old when I first moved to New York, and at that age, you're trying to find yourself. It was hard being so different from everyone I was around, and I felt that nobody could really understand me because everyone was American, and I was this little English girl with an accent.

The Democrats are the architects of the mess we're in that we are trying to get out of, that we're trying extricate ourselves from.

I'm always trying to do something different and trying to keep myself amused.

I love advertising because I love lying. I think spending your life trying to dupe innocent people out of hard-won earnings to buy useless, low-quality, misrepresented items and services is an excellent use of your energy.

I am simply trying to struggle through life trying to do God's bidding.

It's a question of trying to take down by dictation what's already there. I'm not making something, I'm trying to hear it.

I think as a species we're not designed to be able to think more than one year into the future - if that. Even trying to imagine one year from now makes most people feel like they've been given a huge boring chunk of homework that's too hard to do.

I'm not trying to take on any title. I'm just trying to do my thing and be myself.

It's not that I can't collaborate. It's just that I don't know how to say no to people. If someone's like, 'Let's write a song together,' it's like, 'You'll write the song, and I'm gonna okay everything.' It's very hard to think that their ideas work with what I'm trying to do.

Anyone who's trying to be there for their family and trying to take care of their children is a hero to me.

I spent so many years trying to become an actor, trying to be a person that I wasn't.

Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about. There is almost nothing you can say that holds up as a generalization, because it depends on too many factors: size, modulation, the rest of the field, a certain consistency that color has with forms, and the statement you're trying to make.

Telling a story is like trying to eat grapes with a fork. It's always trying to get away from you. And if you're a good author, and you've challenged yourself, and you're telling big stories, there's more and more that's trying to get away from you simultaneously.

When I was growing up, I would try to sing out of key very consciously. I was probably afraid of trying too hard to do something beautiful, and then I just wasn't good enough. But I've learned that I was also on the outside - wanting more challenge by living in that more conventional world.

I play hard and aggressive. I don't lay out the huge body checks because it's not really the style I play. But I love to be around the net and love battling corners and trying to dish pucks out.

I don't like that putdown: that when you're trying to achieve, you're trying to be white. That makes me mad.

I'm not trying to set the bar high. We're just trying to compete. We want to grind. This is what we do.

I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God's bidding.

I'm not trying to copy Nature, I'm trying to find the principles she's using.

I'm not trying to twist people's heads around. I'm not trying to say, "Believe in me."

I know every coach is trying to do the best for his team and trying to win.

I'm not trying to fall in love on the Jersey Shore. I'm just trying to hook up.

I'm not trying to write a perfect record. I'm just trying to nail a moment in time.

Trying to hit Sandy Koufax was like trying to drink coffee with a fork.

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

Trying to be Sherlock Holmes is like trying to catch an arrow in mid-flight.

I've got a defensive responsibility as well as trying to get goals and assists. I'm trying to do that.

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

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

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

When I'm writing, I'm never trying to teach anything - maybe I'm trying to illuminate.

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

I'm not trying to become a pop artist, and I'm not trying to make sure I stay a country artist. I'm just trying to make sure I make the best music I can, according to my way.

Nobody's perfect and I don't want to try and portray that but I'm genuinely doing the best I can out here; trying to support my family the best that I can, trying to make them proud and happy and everybody having the best life they can live. I'm trying to provide a better life for them than I had.

Negative energy? Sure, there are awkward moments, but you're in 'Big Brother.' Everybody is trying to win, everybody is trying to form alliances, everybody is trying to kick everybody out of the house. If there wasn't negative energy, then we weren't playing the game.

We're not the only ones out there trying to get good players and trying to help kids.

I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself.

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

Obviously you've got God-given talent to do things that a lot of people can't do but I actually put the body of work in to get stronger, get faster, trying to work on my technique, trying to do little things that people usually don't do, just trying to improve my game.

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

Ultimately, in my mind, that's what I'm trying to do with my fiction; I'm trying to transport my reader into a different world.

This is what playing football is all about - trying to reach finals and trying to lift trophies.

I'm not trying to be this cool girl. If you're trying to be something you're not, it's slowly going to bite you in the butt.

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

What I learned in school, what I learned in the educational part of my life. Trying to acquire a kind of a bird's eye view. You drive hard and see everything. And that's called education because now you can see everything.

In 1948, I began coaching basketball at UCLA. Each hour of practice we worked very hard. Each day we worked very hard. Each week we worked very hard. Each season we worked very hard. Four fourteen years we worked very hard and didn't win a national championship. However, a national championship was won in the fifteenth year. Another in the sixteenth. And eight more in the following ten years.

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

I'm just trying to be a part of something I can help win. I ain't trying to be no big shot.

Negative feelings are in you, not in reality. Stop trying to change reality. That's crazy! Stop trying to change the other person. We spend all our time and energy trying to change external circumstances, trying to change our spouses, our bosses, our friends, our enemies, and everybody else. We don't have to change anything. Negative feelings are in you.