Top 1200 Trying So Hard Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I think that documentaries are bound by journalistic ethics, and I think they have the pressure of trying to entertain someone for 90 minutes. It's hard, but it's the same question no matter what you're doing. Every film I've done, I've approached it the same way with the same level of respect.

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.

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

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

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.

One thing I'm not is a moralistic filmmaker. I'm not trying to tell people what to do, and I'm not trying to lead.

I think that all of us are 5-year-olds and we don't want to be embarrassed in the schoolyard. I've gone through things in my life. People say it must be so hard to do it in the public eye, but the truth is, when you go through hard things, it's just hard.

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

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

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

I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.

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 was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes. That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

...a man of true science uses few hard words, and those only when none other will answer his purpose; Where as the smatterer in science...thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.

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

You have to work hard, and you have to enjoy what you're doing. If you don't enjoy it, no matter how hard you seem to work, you're not going to be working as hard as you can because you're not enjoying it.

I feel like I was trying to imitate other people or trying to be something I wasn't.

I can't tell you the number of times I was one of the first people at the arenas or at TV, constantly trying to better myself. I can honestly say that my hard work paid off. My resilience paid off. My persistence paid off.

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

It's hard sometimes, especially with a book like 'Scorch Trials,' to truly adapt to the way the book is because so many of the scenes that take place in the book are really graphed and painted for the imagination. Trying to bring that to life is a really big task.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 wife has been incredibly supportive of me as a writer. Trying really hard to make sure I get the space and time I need to work as a writer and being willing to make some of the sacrifices that you have to make to live the life of an artist.

We always correct people who say, 'You're trying to make this look better.' Well yes, we want it to look better, but that's easy. The look and the function are one and the same. They are not separate. It looks good because it functions beautifully. That message is very hard.

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

There are moments of levity. I feel like any great drama has moments of levity, or else it just becomes too hard to watch. 45 minutes of just pain and suffering is not enjoyable. We're trying to entertain people.

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

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.

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

Trying to coach kindergarteners in soccer is like trying to herd cats.

The value of experimentation is not the trying. It's the trying again after the experiment fails.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I think the attitude I was trying to learn myself was to really try hard, to give a great effort, to really care, and to let the results go where they are going to go. But at the same time, I don't have to be happy, and I shouldn't be happy, with less than my best.

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.

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.

Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.

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

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.

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.

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.