Top 1200 Trying Too Hard Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training hard, you know, why can't I train hard to get a world record. I'm doing the same thing.

When you've got eight or nine or ten cables running around with someone trying to operate them, it's too much.

Different types of dangerous lives-You have no idea what you are living through; you rush through life as if you were drunk and now and then fall down some staircase. But thanks to your drunkenness you never break a limb; your muscles are too relaxed and your brain too benighted for you to find the stones of these stairs as hard as we do.

Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind.

That's the point I'm trying to get across in 'Little': Kids can do anything, and that's how adults need to see things, too.

She realized how many of her beliefs were either unrealistic or belonged to her deceased parents and her ex-husband. She also realized that her expectations for herself and others were sometimes too rigid. She was trying to live up to what everyone else said was best for her, which made her depressed and hard to be around at times. Once she changed her beliefs about herself and others, she began to smile more and enjoy life.

You're just trying to work on things in Spring Training, try to put the barrel on the ball and not peak too early.

When you're younger, you're trying to understand and make sense of what your parents are trying to instill in you, which is ultimately life experience. I remember being 17 and my dad trying to teach me the importance of responsibility.

If I talk to a young player, I always tell them never try too hard.

Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique.

Meditation is hard. You are constantly trying to focus on one thing, usually your breath, and your mind is going to go berserk.

I really wanted to know what happens in a place that is trying to build socialism, that's trying to construct some form of social justice. That's trying to feed people, to make health care and education a right.

Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.

I want to show kids, look where I came from. You can do it too if you believe and are willing to work hard.

It's always been hard for me to do without sounding precious or too corny or whatever.

Never seen my friends do more push-ups, trying to challenge Cruises' manhood. It was like, I can be strong, too!

When I was a rookie, what motivated me was trying to win Rookie of the Year and play the best that I could that I would compete so hard.

Hard work pays off - hard work beats talent any day, but if you're talented and work hard, it's hard to be beat.

I try not to push myself too hard, but I also need to perform and earn the results.

As soon as you hear a fighter say, "I'm working smarter, not harder," you always want to bet against that guy. That mentality does not work. You have to work hard. And sometimes that means you are going to work too hard. You are going to decline. You are going to tear down your body and your muscle fibers. You are going to get sick.

God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.

I was so shy and when my sister was born I found it hard. I was really strange and kind of too quiet.

I feel like I'm over-paid-attention-to. I'm not trying to be a GIF. I'm not trying to be a picked-up-on-Twitter quote. All I'm trying to do is act. And I have to promote movies. And I am, at the end of the day, I guess, a f - king lunatic.

And I kissed him back so hard, like I was trying to merge our bodies through our lips.

We could go back," he said. In the dome light of the car, his face looked hard as stone. "We could go back to your house. I can stay with you always. We can know each other's bodies in every way, night after night. I could love you." His nostrils flared, and he looked suddenly proud. "I could work. You would not be poor. I would help you." "Sounds like a marriage," I said, trying to lighten the atmosphere. But my voice was too shaky. "Yes," he said.

Are soft-hearted people handicapped in business? You have heard a businessman say of someone else, He's all right, but he's too soft-hearted.... To be soft-hearted may be handicapping, in a sense. But on the whole, a soft heart is to be preferred to a hard heart. Hard-hearted, severe, dominating giants sometimes manage to get further and to amass more money. But they get less genuine joy out of life.... It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most to endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.

I didn't expect it to come so quickly. It's been hard to keep up with. There's been articles in the papers that say I've got too big for my boots but people who know me say I'm just the same. Things have changed in my life but I haven't, too many people would knock me down if I did.

Are we acting like a couple? I'm just trying to get it straight. Cause I'm over here convinced that it's too early for mistakes.

Trying to describe the process of becoming an alcoholic is like trying to describe air. It's too big and mysterious and pervasive to be defined. Alcohol is everywhere in your life, omnipresent, and you're both aware and unaware of it almost all the time, all you know is you'd die without it, and there is no simple reason why this happens, no single moment, no physiological event that pushes a heavy drinker across a concrete line into alcoholism. It's a slow, gradual, insidious, elusive becoming.

The reason most kids don't like school is not that the work is too hard, but that it is utterly boring.

If you run away from trouble, it always follows.' Rather my impression, too. Though that never stopped me trying.

I feel like animation's stagnant. There's not much that's trying to push the artform, and so, for me, I'm way too critical about it.

What's comfortable to me is familiarity. Comfort has nothing to do with the size of the garment. I do find something quite comfortable and charming in a too-narrow shoulder, a sleeve that's too short or too long, a pant that's too high or too low, hems that are trod on.

Never use tricky or irrelevant headlines… People read too fast to figure out what you are trying to say.

It’s good to be here. I’m just trying to go through life without looking stupid. It’s not working out too well.

I try not to be too hard on myself. My husband reminds me that life is a marathon, not a sprint.

In the economy of the body, the limbic highway takes precedence over the neural pathways. We were designed and built to feel, and there is no thought, no state of mind, that is not also a feeling state. Nobody can feel too much, though many of us work very hard at feeling too little. Feeling is frightening.

What we are here for is to improve, to work as a team, stay humble and work hard, trying to achieve the best performance that we can in every game.

People who want to act rich when they're upper-middle class. They try too hard.

You can be an artist, work hard for your work and also share while trying to create community with other artists.

If a joke is too hard to visualize, I tell the young comics, then what the hell good is it?

'Die Hard' was a really awesome experience, but I was too young to understand what a big film it was.

Apparently, Bette Davis and a lot of actresses had a hard time in their 30s, too.

It's hard to be the one that stands out when, you know, in a ballet company, you're trying to create unison and uniform when you're in a corps de ballet.

It's really hard juggling, trying to carve out a time to have a family and be a mom and have a career, especially a creative career.

Too many people are surfing the web and trying to figure out the politics of getting a movie made or taking meetings and trying to get someone to read something instead of creating a truly great script, because something great has a great chance of getting made, but something average that you've sort of talked people into reading doesn't have as good a shot.

With Metro Station, there were too many people trying to control us. That's not the thing you should do with an artist, I think.

The hard part for me was being an Olympic gold medalist and having that persona; you don't see too many Olympic gold medalists go into acting. It's actually even more difficult. You're not taken very seriously, and you're looked at in a different light, so it was kind of hard for me to go straight from Olympics into acting.

How heroic to be able to suppress one's vanity to the extent of confessing that the game is too hard.

I convinced my wife to let me climb Everest. I emptied my savings and took out a loan so I could afford to make the trip. I wanted to do it solo and I pushed myself too hard. I was carrying too much gear and got altitude sickness. I meditated to the point where I was feeling better, but didn't make it up, because I got involved with a rescue.

I fought really hard to win a seat in Congress, and everybody else did, too.

Support a small chef. Not these big chains... but support the people who are out there trying to do things right and working hard to do that.

The problem in modern America is not that an individual can't make a difference, but that nearly all of us are too distracted to even consider trying.

trying to read his face. It was like a book written in a foreign language she'd studied all too briefly.

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

In really every area of the mayor's life, whether you're trying to fill in holes in the road, trying to keep your community safe, trying to have the robust neighborhood life, or trying to encourage the arts - really at every turn our job has gotten a lot harder under president Trump.

I used to take acting so seriously, but after we did the Quest pilot and the show sold, Kurt Russel said, "You know, you work too hard. You'll make yourself sick. You can't work that hard doing a series, because it goes on so long. It's like a baseball season. You've got 162 games. You can't just go all-out the first week or two. You can't maintain that pace." And it's true.

I work too hard, I'd be a really bad mom, unfortunately. I can't even keep a plant!

I've never felt completely satisfied with what I've done. I tend to see things too critically. I'm trying to get over that.

Honestly, I really just think I work too hard to feel any pressure.