Trying Quotes

• When I am on court, I am so focused on what I am doing, that's all I think about - trying to win the next point.

  

  Caroline Wozniacki
  • Trying

• You shouldn't be trying to create a system where no bank fails, but you should be creating one that catches a bank and allows it to fail without impacting the financial markets.

  

  Bob Diamond
  • Trying
  • Financial

• You don't have to wait for anyone's approval to do things. You don't have to try to get a job and go through set steps before you start a career or start your life. That's what I want young girls to know - you can do anything you want. Just start.

  

  Petra Collins
  • Girl
  • Waiting
  • Jobs

• For the better part of my life, I was always trying to manufacture somehow what I would consider 'living.' Because I grew up sort of upper-middle class and I didn't relate so much to that as a life, and I wanted to really find 'living.'

  

  Alex Ebert
  • Life
  • Up
  • Trying

• This is a lesson about life: This is one person. This is another person. This is one person trying to understand another person, even though it doesn't have room to download the other person into it's brain. It cannot understand the other person, even though it tries to. So he ends up overflowing with knowledge.

  

  James Owen Sullivan Avenged Sevenfold
  • Brain
  • Ends
  • Downloads

• I'm a piano player. I never thought of myself as a singer, at all. I was always trying to sound like somebody else. I don't like my own voice, I like Ray Charles, Robert Plant, I like Joe Cocker, Rod Stewart, people that have an edge in their voice.

  

  Billy Joel
  • People
  • Player
  • Voice

• I have to be clear with myself and very conscious of what I am trying to say. Misunderstandings will always take place; it's unavoidable.

  

  Jose Padilha
  • Trying

• I'm not trying to win an award for being the best vegetarian, just want to be healthy.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Winning
  • Healthy
  • Vegetarian

• Type 'What is th' and faster than you can find the 'e' Google is sending choices back at you: 'What is the cloud?' 'What is the mean?' 'What is the American dream?' 'What is the illuminati?' Google is trying to read your mind. Only it's not your mind. It's the World Brain.

  

  James Gleick
  • World
  • Mind
  • American

• I know what I'm trying to say, so I'm always open to learning how to say it.

  

  Lynn Nottage
  • Trying
  • Learning

• I'm trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it - I think that's important.

  

  Joel Osteen
  • People
  • God
  • Important

• You may be leading, then you might be at the back of the pack trying to work your way up. It's just a constant reminder not to give up, and to know that God, in my mind, is really in control.

  

  Jeff Gordon
  • Up
  • Work
  • God

• The way I grew up, I had hippie parents, and we would run around the garden with no shoes on, very close to nature. So I never wore little princess dresses. I still have this feeling whenever I wear a very formal dress; I always have this slight fear that people will point their fingers at me and laugh: 'Vicky is trying to look like a lady.'

  

  Vicky Krieps
  • People
  • Up
  • Nature

• It's quite liberating to get to a certain age, 'cos you're not chasing number one hits or trying to be an international superstar. I've done all that. I'm not out to prove much more to anyone but myself really, to be an artist and see if there is a new undiscovered music out there for me to make.

  

  Paul Weller Incognito
  • Music
  • Done
  • Age

• When we were trying to get the money for Driving Miss Daisy, everyone kept saying no one could direct it well enough to entertain an audience for 100 minutes essentially watching three people chatting in the kitchen.

  

  Bruce Beresford
  • People
  • Money
  • Driving

• Don't let some random comment that you wouldn't have even thought about overshadow something important that you were actually trying to say.

  

  Lorde
  • Important
  • Random
  • Comment

• I wouldn't buy a book simply because I like the cover. I would pick it up. The jacket can call your attention to it. But in that sense, Oprah Winfrey is worth all the jackets in the world. A jacket is basically trying to do what she does all on her own.

  

  Chip Kidd
  • Up
  • World
  • She

• And with this show we're trying to be a little sillier. We can do a piece like one we wrote the other day called "Ghost Busters Busters". Where would never do that in a million years on Mr. Show, but somehow on this show it's silly and stupid and a little more disposable, so we can do something like that.

  

  B. J. Porter
  • Years
  • Stupid
  • Silly

• If we try to secure the well-being of others, we will, at the same time, create the conditions for our own.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Time
  • Wells
  • Wellbeing

• If you don't fail on a regular basis, you are not trying hard enough.

  

  William Reddington Hewlett
  • Enough
  • Failing
  • Bases

• We're trying to evolve a lot away from YouTube because YouTube is awesome - they have a huge audience, and we started there - but then you're at the mercy of their algorithms a lot, too. They can change anything, and it's really up to them, and you can't say anything about it.

  

  Anthony Padilla
  • Up
  • Awesome
  • Mercy

• Trying to meet new women, it's always a little more difficult as opposed to calling somebody I knew that's single and trying to rebuild that connection.

  

  Drake
  • Women
  • Single
  • Connection

• Along with our passivity, we're entering a profoundly masochistic phase - everyone is a victim these days, of parents, doctors, pharmaceutical companies, even love itself. And how much we enjoy it. Our happiest moments are spent trying to think up new varieties of victimhood...

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Moments

• I think I started out trying to be very objective about the flow of the play.

  

  James Rado
  • Trying

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