Top 1200 Trying Something Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.

If you don't have a dream as an artist, you shouldn't be an artist, because you should be working towards something and trying to reach that always, whatever that is.

I'm new to the Twitterverse and so I'm attempting to build my followers. I'm trying to be a better tweeter. I try not to tweet too much, just when I've got something worthwhile to say.

Don't hyperventilate about something that happened at 9:00 in the morning when the grace of God is trying to reward you at 6:00 in the evening.

Don't give up when you still have something to give. Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying.

In a way, I'm always trying to do something I'm not qualified to do. So I feel that lack of qualification. And I'm scared. And I have a tendency to think things may not/probably won't work out. That's my basic mindset.

I've seen time and time again the way that the process of trying to say something dignifies and improves a person.

I've been trying to write really simple songs to make them sound like they're coming out of a satellite that's crashing into a gas giant or something.

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

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

I'm working at trying to be a Christian and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy?it's serious business. It's not something where you think, Oh, I've got it done. I did it all day, hotdiggety. The truth is, all day long you try to do it, try to be it, and then in the evening if you're honest and have a little courage you look at yourself and say, Hmm. I only blew it eighty-six times. Not bad.

He comes to this other world and he has to reinvent himself. Again, it felt natural, even though I'd been working really hard trying to come up with something.

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.

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

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

I think it helps to know where you're at. I don't want to be coming down 18 knowing I need to make par, and trying to force a birdie or doing something stupid.

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.

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

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

Sometimes I think that's where most of us are. Fighting off the crazy as best we can. Trying to become something better than we were. It's that second bit that's important.

That's the kind of visual that you're trying to attract - something that in some way or another, connects you to what's happening there in a realistic way.

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.

He was trying to tell me something.' Derek snorted. 'Aren’t they all? Must be a rule in the ghost handbook—if in danger of evaporating, make sure you’re in the middle of a dire pronouncement.

If we repeal Obamacare, it's the Wild West, and then you're gonna see the traditional manner and behavior of Washington kick into gear and start trying to craft something.

When I try to appreciate something, it feels like my hands are around the moment, trying to squeeze it. It's when you really release yourself of the responsibility to be enjoying things that you actually do.

I was brought up in the Christian church and I studied in the teachings of Jesus. I believed in caring for others and trying to be kind. It's something I still have to work on every day.

Prayer is not trying to twist God’s arm to make Him do something. Prayer is receiving by faith what He has already done!

I'm trying to get an acting gig on 'CSI' or something like that, so we'll see how that works out. I'm a singer, definitely not an actor, so I just follow directions.

In fact, I think my life is always going to be difficult, because I am trying to do something... "original" is a big word. It's kind of pathetic, but I have to love what I'm doing.

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

I feel like trying to write a song in order to be a big hit is just not something I'm interested in because it's not going to come from an authentic place of expression.

Something like 'Knock Knock,' I was trying to do a Joe Meek, 'Johnny Remember Me'-type thing.

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.

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

Sometimes the idea of being truly iconic has something to do with not necessarily being beautiful and thus trying harder.

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

Knowing makes all the difference... It's the difference between just trying to keep alive, and having something to live for

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term.

Every novel is an attempt to capture time, to weave something solid out of air. The author knows it is an impossible task - that is why he keeps on trying.

That said, there is a tendency to help the large industrial conglomerate more quickly than the small company you have never heard of. That is something in the culture we are trying to change.

No matter what, I think people are trying to better themselves, or to better their situation, or to find something new and exciting.

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

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

I know a lot of people my age are still trying to figure out what to do, and I consider myself lucky that I can make a living doing something that I truly enjoy.

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

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.

I'm trying to bring a little bit of every type of sauce into one type of sound. Something that's really fresh.

When I'm working behind a camera, I feel like I'm trying to achieve something like a jazz musician does.

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

The idea of making [conceptual] art was not a good way to approach things... Instead I saw myself as trying to make something that my relatives could understand.

I should say that all compromise is a "stepping down" of the Truth, is trying to reduce something which cannot be reduced, and that for anyone who has understood life these compromises are impossible.

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.

When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don't eat so much that you get stuck in the doorway trying to get out.

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