Trying Quotes

• Never lose sight of what you're trying to say, and remain open to what's happening while you're filming.

  

  Catherine Corsini
  • Loses
  • Sight
  • Happenings

• Online, you're trying to appeal to everyone and people who you don't know at the same time. So I think, as a side effect, it amplifies the desire for groupthink.

  

  Charlie Brooker
  • People
  • Time
  • Desire

• I think it's (Israeli pressure for invading Iraq) the worst kept secret in Washington, everybody I talked to in Washington has known and fully knows what their agenda was and what they were trying to do; because I mentioned the Neo-Conservatives who describe themselves as Neo-Conservatives, I was called, Anti-Semitic.

  

  Anthony Zinni
  • Trying

• I think being open-minded about what Nature is trying to tell you is the key to being creative and successful.

  

  Bonnie Bassler
  • Trying
  • Nature

• I take a lot of satisfaction in trying to make my land as self-contained as possible, its own little mini environment. Minimal outputs; minimal inputs.

  

  John Grogan
  • Trying
  • Environment

• New York had a big influence on me growing up, and I was really part of the club scene - the Mudd Club and Studio 54. When you're living in New York, you are just bombarded with style, trying to figure out how to be cool and how to feel relaxed at the same time.

  

  Dylan McDermott
  • Up
  • Time
  • Growing

• The flow of people into the United States into slavery, it follows the other types of immigration into the United States, so people who are trying to build new lives, trying to build a better life.

  

  Kevin Bales
  • People
  • Life
  • Slavery

• As a comic, I've heard gunshots while I'm trying to get to sleep. I've performed where people wanted to do you harm after the show because of something you said.

  

  Billy Gardell
  • People
  • Trying
  • Sleep

• There's different kinds of improv. There's Second City improv where you try to slowly build a nice sketch. There's stuff you do in college coffee houses where you just go joke, joke, joke. Bring another funny character with a funny hat on his head. Christopher Guest is more the line of trying to get a story out.

  

  Fred Willard
  • Different
  • Character
  • Funny

• With any film, you're doing basically the same thing. You're trying to translate ideas into action.

  

  Chris Doubek
  • Trying
  • Action

• I'm trying to create a collection of stories - the 'U.F.O.W.A.V.E.' songs are all stories. I haven't really taken direct lyrical influence from other songwriters, but my dad bought me a book of W.H. Auden's poems when I was younger, and the imagery really interested me.

  

  Archy Ivan Marshall
  • Book
  • Dad
  • Taken

• I don't know the rules of grammar... If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular.

  

  David Ogilvy
  • People
  • Trying

• When I'm doing a photo shoot, I'm not playing a part. I'm just trying to be myself.

  

  Gaspard Ulliel
  • Trying
  • Myself
  • Doing

• When you see someone trying to manoeuvre it round the school gates you have to think, you are a complete idiot.

  

  Ken Livingstone
  • Trying
  • School

• We're trying to democratise financial services, to ensure that management and movement of money is a right for all citizens, not the privilege of the affluent.

  

  Dan Schulman
  • Money
  • Financial
  • Management

• The more we are consuming oil that either comes from places that are bent on our destruction or helping those who are... the more we are enabling those who are trying to kill us.

  

  Frank Gaffney
  • Trying

• Iranians and Arabs aren't considered diversity because we still don't have minority status in America. There was a group of Middle Eastern actors trying to get SAG to recognize us as part of the diversity they should look out for, because we do represent a different point of view. When OscarsSoWhite happened, I felt part of that.

  

  Maz Jobrani
  • Different
  • America
  • Diversity

• Sometimes I write music, sometimes I don't. I think I'm just writing more what's close to my heart, and musical stuff is close to my heart, and it's fun to write, and when something's fun to write you don't think about what statement you're trying to make or what genre you're trying to hone in on.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Heart

• Many salespeople are trying to make their quota rather than developing a deeper belief in their product or service - and even worse, they don't have a strong enough belief in themselves.

  

  Jeffrey Gitomer
  • Trying
  • Strong
  • Service

• There's a certain cruelty to being on a big screen as your eyelids start to sag and your hair falls out and turns gray that you either have to be able to handle or not. What you can't do is try to force yourself into roles that you could have played or would have played ten years earlier.

  

  George Clooney
  • Fall
  • Certain
  • Able

• You can't control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity will get you nowhere.

  

  Dave Blood
  • Energy
  • Control
  • Fool

• I know right a way there's a person that's very insecure; that he's trying to out do me. And, ah, like I was saying before, if you give one-hundred percent of your best, and you may have fault, but there is nothing you can do, because you gave one-hundred percent.

  

  Lou Ferrigno
  • Trying
  • May

• I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass - which is better than trying to fill them.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Trying

• I try to maintain a balance between having a vision of the world that many readers do not experience for themselves, trying to give them enough grounding in the world we are all familiar with, so they don't feel that they are completely lost in Faerie.

  

  Elizabeth Hand
  • World
  • Experience
  • Lost

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