Trying Quotes

• I don't know what I was trying to get out of a tenor - but it never really satisfied me until one day I picked up my alto and I said, 'Where have you been?' and I said right here for now on!

  

  Jerome Richardson
  • Up
  • Trying

• Trying to sneak a fastball by Ted Williams was like trying to sneak a sunbeam by a rooster in the morning.

  

  Bob Feller
  • Morning
  • Fastball
  • Sunbeam

• I never feel pressure to be a good role model. I always try to do my best to inspire people to be good and do the right thing, but I just can't live my life always trying to be a good role model.

  

  Kylie Jenner
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Pokemon Go, which involves trying to 'catch' Pikachu or Squirtle or other creatures with your smartphone, is an inherently social experience. You need to be walking around - on the streets, in public places - to catch the Pokemon.

  

  Om Malik
  • Trying
  • Experience
  • Walking

• I'm not really a flirt; I just try to be myself.

  

  Niall Horan One Direction
  • Trying
  • Myself
  • Flirting

• When I feel really insecure, or I'm in a social situation where I'm nervous about how I come off, or I'm trying to control the situation too much, I literally just try and use the same muscles that I had to use on stage - just paying attention to the other person and trusting yourself to respond as emotionally honestly as possible.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Control
  • Attention
  • Yourself

• The feminists took me as a role model, as a mother. It bothers me. I am not interested in being a mother. I am still a girl trying to understand myself.

  

  Louise Bourgeois
  • Mother
  • Girl
  • Model

• I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.

  

  Marcel Marceau
  • Trying

• I am still very independent in my real life, and that's why I'm always trying to get out of relationships prematurely.

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • Life
  • Real
  • Why

• With social media, with Instagram and selfies and all these apps that are trying to make you look perfect... it's hard for girls to grow up nowadays with all that stuff.

  

  Meghan Trainor
  • Up
  • Perfect
  • Look

• There is nothing wrong with having nice things, but when you are trying to buy nice things to be happy, you are going to hurt. It's not going to work.

  

  Dave Ramsey
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Nice

• You should know something, Miriam.... God changed our futures yesterday. There's no other explanation for what happened. And it wasn't the first God. If you ever need hlep, you might want to try the second God.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • God
  • Firsts
  • Changed

• All over Harlem, Negro boys and girls are growing into stunted maturity, trying desperately to find a place to stand; and the wonder is not that so many are ruined but that so many survive.

  

  James Baldwin
  • Growing
  • Wonder
  • Maturity

• All this fame and money, which have so thrilled me when they came to others, leave me cold when they come to me. I am not an ascetic, but I don't know what to do with them, and my daily life has never been so trying, and there is no one to fill it emotionally.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life
  • Money
  • Cold

• Well you know I'm very supportive of what the Tea Party is trying to do. They're very concerned with spending, the deficit, the bailouts, you know all of those kinds of things. But I really think that the strength of the Tea Party is being a grassroots movement.

  

  John Boozman
  • Trying
  • Party
  • Tea

• Every orchestra I know, every opera house I know, is desperately looking around trying to find new talent, new composing talent, supporting young composers, supporting new ideas, supporting new ways of getting the message across.

  

  Esa-Pekka Salonen
  • House
  • Ideas
  • Talent

• Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.

  

  Phyllis McGinley
  • Alone
  • Hair
  • Fly

• I just want to get my voice heard again and to allow people to know me outside of a group situation. I also want young girls who look up to me to know not to give up, even when people try and take you away from your destiny.

  

  LeToya Luckett Destiny's Child
  • People
  • Up
  • Giving

• That's the trick of free market economic theory: it doesn't just ask you to only be selfish and not care about others. It tells you that by being selfish, you are helping others. And, in fact, by trying to directly help others, you will hurt them.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Help
  • Free
  • Care

• Far from trying to rig the system, I have spent decades opposing cronyism and all political favors, including mandates, subsidies and protective tariffs - even when we benefit from them.

  

  Charles Koch
  • Trying
  • Political

• Co-writing is a very unnatural feeling. It's like wanting to document a feeling that you have and then trying to get someone else to describe it for you.

  

  Kathleen Edwards
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Feeling

• Our approach is more the jazz approach, where you learn to play your instrument as well as you can, develop your craft, and then communicate with each other. That's the focus, not trying to give some message or entertain or have a good light show or whatever.

  

  Butch Trucks
  • Good
  • Light
  • Focus

• The best way to make change is to know how something works. If you're going to go build something or change whatever it is, if you don't know how it works and you're trying to go make a change in it, the first thing you're doing is you're spending time figuring out how it works. The same thing happens in organizations.

  

  Brian Krzanich
  • Time
  • Trying

• I'm just trying to give the world something pure for a change. We'll see what happens.

  

  Bibi Bourelly
  • World
  • Trying

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