Top 1200 Trying Too Hard Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

It did seem hard to be doing something heroic while everyone was too busy to notice.

When you really can't affect something, you almost don't wanna wish too hard, because it's just frustrating.

The person who understands Dharma will have the opposite reaction to a "hard" job. That person will be eager to get started, no matter what kind of work is in front of her, because she understands that she's doing God's work. And when you're working for God, nothing is too hard.

I have rules for life, but not for love. If I think too hard about a relationship, I'll talk myself out of it

Too often faith is used as an epistemological device to avoid the hard labor of straight thinking.

When you have too many people and you're trying to satisfy everybody's input, you usually end up with something so incredibly generic that it has no point of view.

I think if you try a little bit too hard sometimes, you can kind of shoot yourself in the foot.

If you're trying to diet, what do you do? You grab your two friends and say, 'We're going to the gym; let's do this together.' Money shouldn't be any different. If you're trying to make progress, if you're trying to save more, we really need to be able to get support.

I heard that all the time. ‘He makes it look too easy, he doesn’t run hard.’ It was always a slight on me.

Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals

Sometimes, when I've been staring too hard, I've noticed that I could see the circumference of my own eye.

We think we need to create ourselves, always doing a paste-up job on our personalities. That is because we're trying to be special rather than real. We're pathetically trying to conform with all the other people trying to do the same.

Television provokes strong opinions, and sometimes we try a bit too hard to appeal to everyone.

My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed.

Safety is not just about trying really hard and being really careful. You have to design technology that makes it possible for a computer to be safe.

We are too kind, too willing--too unwilling too--reaching out blindly with a grasping hand but not knowing how to ask for what we don't even know we want.

Women have a hard enough time in this world: telling them the truth would be too cruel.

I danced so intensely, I learned the hard way that sometimes you can push your body too far.

Hovering near panic, trying to focus but finding it hard to open my eyes. My heart was pounding. I couldn’t get enough air, and I couldn’t find the desire to push her away

And she finds it difficult to believe—that a person would love her even when she isn't trying. Trying to figure out what other people need, trying to be worthy.

Well the press and things like that are pretty hard core, but I don't pay too much attention to that.

He read a lot. He used a lot of big words. I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he did too much thinking. Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often. A couple of times I tried to tell him it was a mistake to get too deep into that kind of stuff, but Alex got stuck on things. He always had to know the absolute right answer before he could go on to the next thing.

I'm just trying to shoot in rhythm. That's the biggest thing for my shot from long range. I don't try to speed it up too much.

George Clooney is trying his own way but he's struggling too because he has to deal with America. Yet, if he has a foot in Europe, it's not for nothing.

The trick is to find the style that is right for you. When it comes to trying new clothes, my advice is not to take it too seriously - it's all about having fun.

All too often we fail to ask what we are trying to sustain. Ultimately, sustainability must be measured by the endurance of thriving human communities.

It's hard for me to take myself too seriously when I'm constantly experiencing firsthand what an incredible gimp I can be.

Too fat, too thin, too loud, too quiet - I was never going to fit the standards others created for me. Instead of complying, I protested.

There’s a writer for you,” he said. “Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.” [narrator]It was my first inkling that he was a writer. And while I like writers—because if you ask a writer anything you usually get an answer—still it belittled him in my eyes. Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. It’s like actors, who try so pathetically not to look in mirrors. Who lean backward trying—only to see their faces in the reflecting chandeliers.

Baseball is so hard as it is. For me, if you simplify it, it takes a little bit of the weight off, rather than trying to figure out all these other things. It's just peace of mind.

I sometimes think less is more. If you cut yourself in too many places, it is hard to execute.

Some things were too hard to believe, however entertaining they might be to hear or read.

Television is fun, but it's hard, and if it gets too crazy I may just do it as a part-time thing.

If a person is too 'satisfied', then he might become complacent, not work so hard to get ahead.

I come from a very rough background, and I'm saying that if you work hard and dedicate yourself that you can make it, too.

I've realised that there is no magic trick to television; it just comes down to hard work and being prepared for every appearance and trying to get your point across as clearly as possible.

(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too.

I could never let the teacher down. I always worked hard, too scared to get in trouble.

I don't say that I am playing great defense, but I am working hard at trying to make it tough for each offensive player that I'm guarding.

I don't want to produce anymore small or independent movies because it's just too hard these days.

I hear the birds on the summer breeze, I drive fast I am alone in the night Been trying hard not to get into trouble, but I I've got a war in my mind So, I just ride

I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.

Like many men who play tennis, when I hit a ball into the net, I tend to look daggers at my racket, reproaching it for playing so badly when I myself have been trying so hard.

If meditate on the third eye and have headaches it means you are trying to pull in too much power from the occult chakra. The danger is obsession.

So my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I'm doing that, then I snap out of it.

You're always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that's maybe even too weird for your own taste.

People will believe anything if it means they can go on with their lives and not have to think too hard about it.

It’s been too hard living, but I’m afraid to die. ‘Cause I don’t know what’s up there, beyond the sky.

Trying to find the story within the story was hard. Filmmaking is such a reductive process in a strange way and you keep whittling away to what is essential.

Sandy deWitt at TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris in Johannesburg, South Africa, taught me to make a decision and stick with it. Every day we're faced with reasons why we shouldn't do good work: it's too scary, too hard to pull off, there's no time, no money, etc. You have to be brave and commit to your choices in the face of adversity. If you waver, nothing will turn out the way you imagined it.

We're all trying so hard to win each of these World Series events and the standard now is phenomenal but it's great that everyone's pushing each other.

I used to try to carry the weight of my character around with me, but I just can't do that now, it's too hard.

I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well.

It's pretty hard to offend me. I actually think people are a little too easily offended.

I'm trying as hard as I possibly can each and every day to get my life better and better and stronger. And if I win championships along the way, so be it.

We can't shame women for trying to be beautiful. That's so mean and unfair. But there's a part of me that thinks it's really sad, too. It's very complicated.

Over the Christmas period, I spent time with both Bob Hawke and Paul Keating, and you listen to stories and tales of how hard it can be when it's really hard, and I think we easily all talk ourselves into the proposition that it's never been as hard as this. Well it's been hard in the past. It's been really hard. So you keep doing it and, the more you do it, the more you gain strength and confidence that you can do it.

Why is Mitt Romney not bragging: 'I covered all these people'? Why can't the Democrats sell the idea, we're trying to make you well? Is that such a hard sale?

Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies.

People who know my track record know when I've got a vision in mind, I'll see it through. But sometimes it's hard to convey what you're trying to achieve.