Trying Quotes

• Maybe to try to understand not just that we are living in a certain building or in a certain location, but to become aware that we are living on a planet that is going at enormous speed through the universe.

  

  Andreas Gursky
  • World
  • Universe
  • Building

• John Clellon Holmes … and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent Existentialism and I said, 'You know, this is really a beat generation' and he leapt up and said 'That's it, that's right!'

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Up
  • Lost
  • Existentialism

• I don't like forcing comedy and people just trying to do things just to find a funny beat all the time.

  

  Martin Lawrence
  • People
  • Time
  • Funny

• I spend a lot of my time trying to help leaders build cultures of productive givers.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Help

• I am doing everything humanly possible to try and get well, but lately things have just kept getting worse.

  

  Daniel Johns Silverchair
  • Trying
  • Wells
  • Get Well

• What's great about having an audience is they can let you know what they don't think is funny, and you can just cut that out and keep trying.

  

  Maggie Carey
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Funny

• My main dream - and I'm trying to get 'Living TV' to do it - is to go into prison and interview serial killers, rapists, murderers, psychopaths.

  

  Katie Price
  • Trying
  • Dream

• Heroes in drama are people who try hard to reach a virtuous ideal. And whether they succeed or fail really doesn't matter - it's the trying that counts.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Drama
  • Succeed

• Marvel heroes, at their core, are people who are damaged, are people that are trying to figure out who they are in life. And that doesn't matter whether or not they're X-Men characters or they're Matt Murdock or they're Tony Stark or they're Peter Parker... That's where it starts.

  

  Jeph Loeb
  • People
  • Life
  • Men

• People are always saying bad things about them, but really they think they're just trying to clean up our planet. I'm not saying it's right but, you know, we could all benefit from following that example.

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• An entrepreneur is someone who dares to dream the dreams and is foolish enough to try to make those dreams come true.

  

  Vinod Khosla
  • Trying
  • Dream
  • Entrepreneur

• I'm trying to be one of the greatest players, so whatever level that consists of is where I want to take my game.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Trying
  • Game

• Divinity. That's what I'm trying to get at, in everything I write.

  

  Jayne Anne Phillips
  • Trying

• I practiced law for 10 years, and I always admired the lawyers who were not afraid to take unpopular cases. And I never had the guts to do that. I was playing it safe. I was trying to make a living. And I just never volunteered for a really tough case, and there were some of them I should've taken. And I admired the lawyers who did.

  

  John Grisham
  • Trying
  • Law
  • Taken

• My mom started smoking when she was 11. She went to the hill next door to try her first cigarette. She set the entire hill on fire, but it didn't deter her.

  

  Loni Anderson
  • She
  • Mom
  • Fire

• I don't understand the concept of always trying to make F1 go slower and slower and slower and have less and less power.

  

  Jacques Villeneuve
  • Trying
  • Power

• Some fella said to me, 'Have you had LSD, Paul?' And I said 'Yes.' And it was only 'cuz I was going to just be honest with him. There's no other reason. I didn't want to spread it or anything, you know. I'm not trying to do anything except answer his question. But he happened to be a reporter, and I happened to be a Beatle.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Trying
  • Question

• Can you have more than one major MISSION pervading your life? NO. That would be like coming to a fork in the road and trying to go both ways by straddling it.

  

  Charles Garfield
  • Way
  • Missions
  • Forks

• I think sometimes people project things on you, but I'm trying to handle everything that's happened to me with a certain amount of grace, dignity and good manners. You just can't necessarily win all the time.

  

  Katie Couric
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Before I studied story, I was trying to write a novel, and it was terrible. It wasn't going anywhere, and I couldn't figure out what I was trying to do. It was really hard; much harder than I thought it was going to be. Now that I've studied story, I think I'd have a different approach and maybe I could actually get it done.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Different
  • Done
  • Story

• Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not trying to make them with the shading.

  

  Ellsworth Kelly
  • Trying

• So Dobby stopped us from getting on the train and broke your arm. . . ." He shook his head. "You know what, Harry? If he doesn't stop trying to save your life he's going to kill you.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Life
  • Stop
  • Arms

• My husband has the philosophy that if you can work a Nintendo control, you can chop an onion. So, we have our children in the kitchen. We sit down every night for dinner. We're trying to give our kids a sense of what's going into their bodies, and it's also good for family time.

  

  Debi Mazar
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• When the Korean economy was just trying to get back on its feet after the war, having parks was a luxury.

  

  Lee Myung-bak
  • War
  • Economy
  • Parks

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