Trying Quotes

• There's nothing less funny than trying to force funny.

  

  Kelly Sue DeConnick
  • Trying
  • Funny

• My work is about making candy for the eyes. It's about grabbing your attention. Even though my work is appearing in magazines I am trying to make a large picture. I want my photographs to read like a poster.

  

  David LaChapelle
  • Work
  • Attention
  • Eyes

• Dishonesty is all about the small acts we can take and then think, 'No, this not real cheating.' So if you think that the main mechanism is rationalization, then what you come up with, and that's what we find, is that we're basically trying to balance feeling good about ourselves.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • Up
  • Good
  • Real

• I'm just trying to play against ethnicity. I got to play a guy from Louisiana in 'The Pacific' named Merriell Shelton, and now I'm playing Elliot Alderman.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Guy
  • Play
  • Now

• My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. I hope I have done some of that. I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. It is why I leave with sadness but also with pride.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Done
  • Why
  • Hope

• I don't have any particular loyalties to one technique or another. I'm just trying to use the best for the job.

  

  John Knoll
  • Trying
  • Job

• I do have a tendency to talk a lot at the poker table, which throws people off because they spend a lot of time trying to read me. But I talk a lot when I have a good hand and when I have a bad hand, too. Sometimes it annoys people so much they can't wait to get out of the tournament. And that can only be good for me.

  

  Cheryl Hines
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• The world record will come to me when I run the world record race. I'm just trying to perfect my race. I'm looking for perfection.

  

  Maurice Greene
  • World
  • Trying
  • Perfect

• I like trying to win. That's what golf is all about.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Trying
  • Win
  • Golf

• It saddens me that a historic event like this is being misconstrued by a small but vocal group of critics trying to spread the notion that the UN gathering is really the work of radicals and atheists bent on destroying our families.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Small

• The Bible, that powerful book, has many effects: it comforts, counsels, instructs, and brings us into the presence of God. But trying to erase offense as one of its functions is a fundamentally misguided task.

  

  Frederica Mathewes-Green
  • God
  • Book
  • Powerful

• I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.

  

  Lucille Ball
  • Business
  • Stupid
  • Foolish

• I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Up
  • Know
  • Longevity

• I don't ever want to seem like I'm trying to command attention through the way I dress - but I have certainly been known to wear everything from a flamboyant suit to something very mellow and classic. I aim to just look and feel confident.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Want
  • Attention
  • Dress

• I'm trying to do big things. It doesn't matter whether it's on the field or off the field.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Trying
  • Matter
  • Big

• My life is going at the speed of light, so it's a lot of just trying... to be present in each moment... Giving each situation and each part of life that space and making sure that it's sacred in every aspect.

  

  Mary Lambert
  • Life
  • Giving
  • Light

• Sisters, to me, are fascinating because it is a unique connection of the coming together of connection and competition. The fact that you have these age differences is a built-in power struggle, and the fact that you're all trying to get attention and resources from the same parents creates competition.

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • Power
  • Together
  • Age

• I wasn't trying to fit into a thing... it was not like I was like, 'Right, I'm the Han; I'm the Leia; I'm the Luke.' I was just like, 'Okay, I'm Rey, just trying to do me, just trying to do this scene, trying to do the right thing,' and I think that was a huge advantage because I think if not, it would've been a very different thing.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Do The Right Thing

• I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do something so that this world will be peaceful. That is the most ambitious and the most difficult thing, but I'm there trying to do it.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • World
  • Family
  • Friends

• We should always be trying to tear down the walls and say, 'I'm no different than you.'

  

  James Edward Olliges Jr.
  • Different
  • Trying

• I'm trying to make work that is reflective and is encouraging of reflection.

  

  Antony Gormley
  • Work
  • Reflection
  • Encouraging

• In my experience women are like cats. When you don't want them you can't get rid of them and when you do want them it's like trying to pick up lint with a magnet. (p. 267)

  

  Dave Sim
  • Up
  • Women
  • Experience

• To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Work
  • Live
  • Game

• I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.

  

  Flume
  • True
  • Success
  • Know

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