Top 1200 Trying Something Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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

Look, when you are starting to put something together, you want the pudding to come out good. You're trying to put in the right ingredients.

I always think that the most interesting characters are those that are trying to cover something or those that have some sense of bravado or composure.

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 was trying to do something that seemed very natural and easy but which bridged that gulf between the singing voice and the speaking voice.

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

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

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

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 represent all Muslim women. I'm trying to give voice to the silent majority. Unfortunately, I'm a bit loony.

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

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.

I’m a total atheist, and for me it’s just about trying to find something that rises above the banal day-to-day bullshit of living.

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

The more educated you get, the better shot you have to get it right, but if you're really trying something different, it's a challenge every time.

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

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

Frankly, as an entrepreneur, you can do only one thing and be a part of it, but through investing in different ventures, you can be a part of something new and what others are trying to build.

If you're trying to be something you're not, whether it's an age or a certain type of personality, you're just going to be in misery. You have to own who you are, and part of who you are is your age.

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

What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people?

Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture.

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

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

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

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.

I'm never satisfied. I don't think about what has come before because I'm trying to find something different than I did before.

You got up, and you did something. And if trying to find a way when you don't even know you can get there isn't a small miracle; then I don't know what is.

After putting out quite a few albums, there's a feeling of why make another? I was trying to make something that was an album experience.

The spirituality of the dance, that's something that's evolved for me in the past ten years or so. I'm still trying to figure out where that's taking me.

Just trying to do something - just being there, showing up - is how we get braver. Self-esteem is about doing.

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

We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff. If you want to build a company, nothing better than jumping in and trying to build one. But Facebook is also great for entrepreneurs/hackers. If people want to come for a few years and move on and build something great, that's something we're proud of.

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.

I'm constantly trying to become the best. That's kind of how I'm driven. Sometimes I'm not. I kind of focus on when I'm not than when I am. That's probably something I need to switch.

Trying to get government to be as efficient as business is as hopeless as trying to teach cats to bark and dogs to meow.

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.

I do feel like guys feel pressure to be funny with me, which is kind of annoying. It's a turn-off if someone's trying hard to be funny because it feels like they're auditioning for a comedy job or something. It doesn't feel romantic to me. I get so much comedy from my life that, from a guy, I'm more looking for something sweet or romantic.

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

Can it be that action is active resignation? Something is trying to develop; it moves ever so slightly, and there comes your man of action and bashes in the hothouse windows.

Lobbying is not a bad thing. I'm not trying to say that we shouldn't have lobbyists or we shouldn't have lobbying to petition our government. It's in the Constitution, and it's something that should be honorable and good.

I'm putting my consciousness towards trying to teach people through pictures and sculptures that there's something better in the world. That's what the world needs more of.

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

I like challenges, and thus, I keep trying something different and new every time. And these challenges and interests turn into passion.

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.

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

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

The ayatollahs are trying to unite the whole Arab world against Israel by saying that Israel is something that should be brought to an end.

The way I was brought up, there was a little bit of prodding to do something more practical, and I wasted a lot of time trying to be a practical person.

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

If you look at the story of 'The Get Down,' it's the story of young people, unknowns thrown together by their resources, trying to create something.

Of course he wouldn't hesitate before trying something that had never been done before. He was Vlad Tepesh. How could he fail?

We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.

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.