Top 1200 Trying So Hard Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Looking back, I still can't believe how unprofessional the news media was. So much spin, so few hard facts. All those digestible sound bites from an army of 'experts' all contradicting one another, all trying to seem more 'shocking' and 'in-depth' than the last one. It was all so confusing, nobody seemed to know what to do.

I love the quality of TIDAL. I appreciate what they're trying to do and what they're trying to accomplish.

I'm not trying to get five medals. I'm not trying to be Michael Phelps.

I enjoy myself a lot but I derive more joy in working. I believe in hard work and one of my business success secrets is hard work. It's hard to see a youth that will go to bed by 2am and wake up by 5am. I don't rest until I achieve something.

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

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

The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying practicing, enjoy every day, enjoying to work hard, trying to be a better player than before.

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

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

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

Die-hard conservatives thought that if I couldn't get everything I asked for, I should jump off the cliff with the flag flying-go down in flames. No, if I can get 70 or 80 percent of what it is I'm trying to get ... I'll take that and then continue to try to get the rest in the future.

I'm not trying to find answers anymore. I'm trying to live what I know.

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.

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.

You're trying to bring a character to an audience, and tell stories. That's what we're all trying do.

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

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.

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

I'm not trying to be modest of self-deprecating or in any way trying to do that.

You have to be able to do a bunch of things at once, and not think about things you're not doing while you're doing other things. You have to be disciplined about not trying to do everything, all at the same time. It's hard and fun.

I'm making a record that's half stripped down acoustic which is the way I perform a lot and half of it is very produced. It's really hard to keep music simple but I was trying to keep it simple and focus on one or two instruments and vocals.

The trouble with most of us is that we stop trying in trying times.

I'm not trying to convey a message, I'm just trying to tell a story.

Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture.

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

If you measure someone's brain and see very little activity during a task, it does not necessarily indicate that they're not trying - it more likely signifies that they have worked hard in the past to burn the programs into the circuitry. Consciousness is called in during the first phase of learning and is excluded from the game playing after it is deep in the system.

I'm not trying to be Tom Brady. I'm just trying to be Matt Cassel.

I'm not trying to be an action star, and I'm not trying to be a romantic-comedy guy.

I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I try to make them sound as natural as possible, but within a quite strict form, which to my ears has a lot to do with musical rhythm and sound.

Everybody's out trying to be commercial. I'm not trying to be anything, really.

I know that nothing can be taken for granted, and there is still a lot of hard work ahead of me. However, I am looking forward to the challenge of trying to prove to the England manager that I am worthy of a place in his team, and hopefully continuing to progress my career in the right direction.

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've done a lot of dramedies in my career. You know, I started as a standup comic, and then the movies that I was doing, like 'Up Side of Anger' were kind of like - they're hard. They're hard to sell; they're hard to get made, you know.

Legal reform organizations are usually trying to portray their constituents as "hard workers," as "not criminals," as citizens, as part of normative family arrangements, and as conforming to white norms as much as possible. When these strategies are used, the most dangerous conditions and the people who are most vulnerable cannot be discussed or addressed.

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.

Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger. Instead of getting angry nurture a deep caring and respect for troublemakers because by creating such trying circumstances they provide us with invaluable opportunities to practice tolerance and patience.

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

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

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

I am kind of the front man for a team of people behind the scenes who are working just as hard as me and are putting in just as much time to make this all happen. I'm not trying to be humble. I just want everyone to get credit where credit is due.

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

Half of the misery in the world comes from trying to look, instead of trying to be, what one is not.

On one-on-one, I'm either trying to get the first down or trying to score.

I've always hated the feeling of trying to be cool or trying to fit in.

hard work is a misleading term. physical effort & long hours do not constitute hard work. hard work is when someone pays you to do something you'd rather not be doing. anytime you'd rather be doing something other than the thing you're doing...you're doing hard work.

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

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

I'm not trying to be the younger, blonder version of anyone. I'm trying to be Tomi.

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

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.

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.

I just want to try to ignore the scrutiny and all the distractions and just play hard basketball and let the best come... Improving game by game and trying to improve my game is what I want to do.

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

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'm trying to be myself, trying and be aggressive no matter what percentage I'm shooting.

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

trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.

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.