Top 1200 Trying To Be Perfect Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

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.

Every person's body chemistry is different. The effect of one single drug that appeals to me might have a different effect on someone else. There's no way to tell what the perfect psychedelic drug would be, because it would be perfect for only you.

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

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

Would I show my body off if I was thinner? Probably not, because my body is mine. I think I remind everyone of themselves. I'm not saying everyone is my size, but it's relatable because I'm not perfect, and I think a lot of people are portrayed as perfect, unreachable and untouchable.

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

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

Religions are not revealed: they are evolved. If a religion were revealed by God, that religion would be perfect in whole and in part, and would be as perfect at the first moment of its revelation as after ten thousand years of practice. There has never been a religion which fulfills those conditions.

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.

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.

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

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

Mr. Freeman: You are getting better at this, but it's not good enough. This looks like a tree,but it is an average, ordinary, everyday, boring tree. Breathe life into it. Make it bend - trees are flexible, so they don't snap. Scar it, give it a twisted branch - perfect trees don't exist. Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree.

I always think of albums as the format. I think it's perfect. I don't think you can tamper with that. It's not just sound, the analog, which is so much richer. It's the format. You're constrained by just 45 minutes, and it's perfect to me. I don't want to listen to any more than, and I live and breathe music.

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

People are much less interested in what you are trying to show them than what you are trying to hide.

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

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

Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Being president is as difficult as writing the perfect poem. And being president is as effortless as writing the perfect poem. Always a Reckoning, my first collection of poetry, was described by Booklist as 'keenly evocative.'

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

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

Don't expect your friend to be a perfect person. Help your friend to become a perfect person. That is true friendship

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

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

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

Love doesn't have to be perfect. Even perfect, it is still the best thing there is, for the simple reason that it is the most common and constant truth of all, of all life, all law and order, the very thing which holds everything together, which permits everything to move along in time and be its wonderful or ordinary self.

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.

God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form...The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Perfection is the exclusive attribute of God, and it is indescribable, untranslatable. I do believe that it is possible for human beings to become perfect, even as God is perfect. It is necessary for all of us to aspire after that perfection but when that blessed state is attained, it become indescribable, indefinable.

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

There was never a book, a magazine, a movie, a television show that spoke to my experience as a bicultural teen. I could find a million articles on finding the perfect prom dress or getting the guy of your dreams, but how about 'Ten Sure Fire Steps to Being the Perfect Korean Daughter and Not Be a Freak at Your High School?'

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.

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

When I came here, I couldn't speak a word of English, but my sex life was perfect. Now my English is perfect but my sex life is rubbish

When you look at Steven Meisel's pictures and you see girls rolling around in mud or cars are blowing up? It takes a tremendous amount of courage to be able to do that. I think you have to be malleable, and that's what makes a truly great model. It's not the perfect lip or the perfect face, it's your own ability to take on a character and that's, I think, something there's a misconception about.

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

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

Buddhist meditation doen't necessarily mean sitting cross-legged with your eyes closed. Simply observing how your mind is responding to the sense world as you go about your business - walking, talking, shopping, whatever - can be a really perfect meditation and bring a perfect result.

I can honestly say in my entire career, I've never gone around a golf course and not mis-hit a shot, but today I never missed a shot. I hit every driver perfect, every iron perfect. I'm in awe of myself.

It seems women are expected to be so much more than men, which means we have to work that much harder. We're the ones under the microscope. We're expected to sound perfect. We're expected to look perfect all the time. We're expected to be style-setters, whereas the boys roll onto the stage in their jeans, T-shirts and baseball caps.