Top 1200 Trying To Change Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

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

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

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

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'd love to have a president who really was out there leading and traveling around the world campaigning for joint climate change action. Even the Chinese government is trying to get people to stop polluting. And I think the federal government level in China is acting more responsibly than the American government.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I get 100 e-mails a day from Americans who say, 'What you're doing is cool - can we work for you?' From Germans, I also get 100 e-mails a day, saying, 'You fat pig!' or 'You're a liar and a criminal!' I'm trying to change this.

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

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.

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

Wherever we are, we can call for and create these kinds of settings for authentic dialogue. This is the seedbed of social change. In a voiced community, we all flourish. But it's not easy. Revolutionary patience and persistence is required. It can be messy, it is unpredictable, and change, especially structural change takes time - time and leadership and the will of an engaged community. What is needed? In a word, courage.

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

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

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

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

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

Human progress depends on unreasonable people. Reasonable people accept the world as they meet it; unreasonable people persist in trying to change it. Well, I'm Bob and I'm an unreasonable person. And if TED is anything, it is the olympics of unreasonable people.

This is life. Our bodies change. Our minds change. Our hearts change. Things are always evolving. I hope we can be supportive of each other and try to really have each other's backs, especially when we don't know the whole story.

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

Change is a journey and the journey is always about change. And if there is no change, why bother with the journey? And the best journeys require lots of space of one sort or another. So for great journeys - just open space.

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.

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.

I'm trying to escape by forming my own kind of world. Basically, I'm trying to encourage others 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'm not trying to be Tom Brady. I'm just trying to be Matt Cassel.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Change is never fast enough to satisfy us. I still hear too many stories of women who go back to work too soon, but I do believe that we have been able to change the paradigm in attitudes towards family leave in that it's no longer a nice thing to do for women, it's a must do for competitiveness, and that's a big change over the last seven years. Changing it into an economic issue is a big sea change in the last seven years.

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

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'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.

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

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

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

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

I'm not going to change the way I work out in the offseason and prepare. I'm not going to change the way I approach the game. I'm not going to change the way I play every day.

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