Trying Quotes
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I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny.
Daniel Johns Silverchair
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Desire is God tapping at the door of your mind, trying to give you greater good.
H. Emilie Cady
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Music can connect people on an intimate level. What Josh and I are trying to do is represent anyone who has some of the questions that we have.
Tyler Joseph Twenty One Pilots
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You learn by trying and failing. Just a lot of hard work and mistakes.
David O. Russell
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But basically, I'm trying to write a fun story.
S. Robson Walton
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Whenever I get negative comments on Twitter, it's always from girls - often ones who are trying to make it in the media. I don't understand why we can't put that energy into uniting and supporting each other instead.
Jameela Jamil
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And so about many other things of the same nature, we are trying to make people believe these things, and we make creeds of them; and thus we continue to do our own will, which is the ground of all sin.
Elias Hicks
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After all, [female genital mutilation is] a key pillar of institutional misogyny in Islam: its entire purpose is to deny women sexual pleasure. True, a lot of us hapless western men find we deny women sexual pleasure without even trying, but we don't demand genital mutilation to guarantee it. On such slender distinctions does civilization rest.
Mark Steyn
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I spent the first part of my career trying to avoid genre because I felt like genre, in some way, was cliche.
David MacKenzie
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It’s almost the not-knowing that’s sexy. When the look is too contrived... Trying to assimilate a look to be sexy to me is pretty transparent in the first place. So... somebody who just kind of stumbles into a sexy look... who’s not been thinking about fashion at all...
Marc Jacobs
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As a working mom, you're running around all the time, and you're trying to figure out what can my kid eat that's healthy because, I guess, I'm 'supposed to do that.'
Anna Faris
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In a way players at the top should try to promote the game in their own countries as that is the legacy that makes you feel proud. If you have not done that you have failed as a sportsperson.
Viswanathan Anand
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TRYING TO FILL THE empty SPACE i don't know if I will ever understand this Ache. Perhaps it is simpley and completely Love and what HAPPENS. at the end. Loss November 17, early morning
Sabrina Ward Harrison
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Active questions are the alternative to passive questions. There is a huge difference between, 'Do you have clear goals?' and 'Did you do your best to set clear goals for yourself?' The former is trying to determine the employee's state of mind; the latter challenges the employee to describe or defend a course of action.
Marshall Goldsmith
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I want to keep trying something new all the time. It is the only way to grow.
Akkineni Nagarjuna
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With a lot of my comedic heroes, I'm trying to make sure that, wherever they might have gotten off-track a bit, I've learned that lesson.
Keegan-Michael Key
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I really think that life isn't logical and life isn't always meaningful. I'm just trying to go into that zone without being too random, and just trying to create some new logic [in moviemaking] that feels like dreams.
Quentin Dupieux
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Repeating my mechanics was difficult. I was always trying to do something different to make it click.
Drew Pomeranz
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It's big for us because we know the other teams are right around us for the playoffs. (But) we are not approaching games like that. We are just trying to win the game. We don't feel like we need to settle for the eighth or seventh seed, we feel like we can get as high as we want to.
Allen Iverson
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We are trying to say that low income and low job opportunities, after a long period of time, tears at the social fabric.
Angus Deaton
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If you're trying to recreate life, the life that you best know is the one you grew up with.
Alexander Payne
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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
Charles Kettering
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Living in New York City, you have to keep trying to do a lot of things.
Caroline Shaw
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Clearly, there are many places where diesel is king or gas-turbine is king, or IC engines will win, but there are many places in the world where, as we've seen, they just won't do the job. The modern version of the Stirling engine has some very, very attractive characteristics, and we're trying to optimize it for some of those applications.
Dean Kamen