Trying Quotes

• I didn't want to say "No" because I didn't want people to think I'm not nice. And that, to me, has been the greatest lesson of my life: to recognize that I am solely responsible for it, and not trying to please other people, and not living my life to please other people, but doing what my heart says all the time.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• In the past, I've been a workaholic. I'm trying not to be anymore.

  

  Lauren Shuler Donner
  • Trying
  • Past

• I think in France, for example, we can say whatever we want about the French, but going out and dining is more about the intellectual moment to share with the people you dine with than trying to figure out what the chef did with that little piece of salmon or lobster and all that.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • People
  • Moment
  • Chef

• I'm trying to speak--to write-the truth. I"m trying to be clear. I'm not interested in being fancy, or even original. Clarity and truth will be plenty, if I can only achieve them.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Writing
  • Truth
  • Fancy

• Food-wise, I'm trying to eat a lot of fruits. I take vitamin pills. For me, that's helpful. Luckily, if I don't go to the gym for two weeks, I'm not feeling it yet, but everybody is warning me, 'Just wait a few more years. You'll feel it.'

  

  Martin Garrix Area21
  • Feeling
  • Food
  • Wise

• If I could, I'd be a recluse. I do want to be one. I'm trying really hard. But it's a difficult thing to pull off in this job.

  

  Chris Lowe Pet Shop Boys
  • Trying
  • Job

• One year you go in for auditions, and everybody thinks you're the queen of comedy, and the next year, you're so 'yesterday,' and it's not because you've done anything, or your ability has changed; you haven't been in work because you've been putting on weight and then trying to lose it.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Work
  • Done
  • Comedy

• Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Words

• The primitive sign of wanting is trying to get.

  

  G. E. M. Anscombe
  • Mind
  • Trying
  • Knowledge

• It seems that the greatest difficulty is to find the end. Don't try to find it, it's there already.

  

  Sofia Coppola
  • Ends
  • Seems
  • Difficulty

• Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.

  

  Zendaya
  • Love
  • Remember
  • Human

• Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.

  

  Johannes Brahms
  • Bad
  • Health
  • Jealousy

• Losing him was blue like I’d never known;Missing him was dark grey all alone.Forgetting him was like trying to knowSomebody you've never met.But loving him was red;Loving him was red.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Alone
  • Dark
  • Red

• I had all these singles come out within a two-month period, and then nothing for almost two years. You start to feel a little irrelevant. You realize how many people there are trying to be songwriters and how competitive it is and how political things can be.

  

  Julia Carin Cavazos
  • People
  • Political
  • Period

• But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying.

  

  Abbey Lincoln
  • Prove
  • Saying
  • Madonna

• Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Time
  • Today
  • Ideas

• 'Troublemaker' is not an adaptation of 'Metro Girl' or 'Motor Mouth.' It is an original story. The hardest part was probably trying to keep the sound true to the novels. I always write in first person, and it was important to us that the readers of 'Metro' and 'Motor' be comfortable with the change over to a graphic novel.

  

  Janet Evanovich
  • Important
  • True
  • Girl

• I'm not trying to climb a ladder - I'm casting a bit of a net.

  

  Neil Patrick Harris
  • Trying

• I was 12 years old when I first moved to New York, and at that age, you're trying to find yourself. It was hard being so different from everyone I was around, and I felt that nobody could really understand me because everyone was American, and I was this little English girl with an accent.

  

  Ella Mai
  • Different
  • American
  • Age

• And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Trying
  • Giving
  • Performing

• When you're still in the broadcast business, you're still trying to reach tens of millions. You're trying to still aim for a broader audience, and I think that's a more difficult task to spread yourself across that audience, connect with them, as opposed to a very, very small, pinpointed audience. Difficult to do.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Business
  • Small
  • Yourself

• I’ve never been certain whether the moral of the Icarus story should only be, as is generally accepted, ‘don’t try to fly too high,’ or whether it might also be thought of as ‘forget the wax and feathers, and do a better job on the wings.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Moral
  • Forget
  • Jobs

• I saw myself as a teacher's pet but with a little of Ed Haskell mixed in. I was the teacher's pet, but that didn't mean that I was trying to pull one over.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Myself
  • Teacher
  • Pet

• I'm just writing about people. People are dark and complicated. I'm trying to tell the truth; that's all that I do.

  

  David Lindsay-Abaire
  • People
  • Writing
  • Truth

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