Trying Quotes

• Going into Portland, I was just trying to not step on anybody's toes, stay quiet, and play my game. I think I was just trying to figure out the kind of sequences I was going to see as a hitter and learn from that.

  

  Andrew Benintendi
  • Trying
  • Game

• Let's not forget what the origin of the problem is. There is no place in modern Europe for ethnically pure states. That's a 19th century idea and we are trying to transition into the 21st century, and we are going to do it with multi-ethnic states.

  

  Wesley Clark
  • Political
  • Problem
  • Modern

• Trying to impress people who hate you is just a big waste of time.

  

  Matthew Charles Sanders Avenged Sevenfold
  • People
  • Trying
  • Hate

• Oh, I'm so glad we know what it's called, that's a great help," snarled Ron, leaning back, trying to stop the plant from curling around his neck.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Great
  • Help
  • Stop

• I think, in fact, that the connections between philosophy and cognitive science haven't gone far enough, metaphysicians should be working closely with cognitive scientists when they try to understand the sources of our experience of parts of the world such as its causal and temporal parts.

  

  L.A. Paul
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Experience

• 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

• You can't type what a lesbian is. We're anything and everything. The one thing in common is that we make love to other women. So give up trying to limit us.

  

  Amanda Bearse
  • Trying
  • Lesbian
  • Limit

• My focus is trying to make great music and putting on great shows, and whatever happens beyond that is a bonus to me.

  

  Luke Bryan
  • Great
  • Music
  • Focus

• I am trying to cultivate the notion that constantly misplacing one's cell phone is a charming eccentricity... my children aren't buying it.

  

  Alice McDermott
  • Children
  • Trying

• If every person in this room made it a rule that wherever you are, whenever you can, you will try to act a little kinder than is necessary - the world really would be a better place. And if you do this, if you act just a little kinder than is necessary, someone else, somewhere, someday, may recognize in you, in every single one of you, the face of God.

  

  R. J. Palacio
  • World
  • God
  • May

• The difference between a regular camera and a 3D camera, for an actor, is really no different except that the turn-arounds are longer. It takes a lot longer to set up a shot because the cinematographer is really trying to set up a whole world, so it can't be more intricate and more beautiful to the viewers, in 3D.

  

  Chris Zylka
  • Up
  • World
  • Different

• Where I'm fortunate and why I think I've thrived and survived, through the not having albums out every year-and-a-half, is not taking the songs lightly and trying to make sure I've got consistency.

  

  Rodney Atkins
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Consistency

• Robert Louis Stevenson...was a storyteller, that's what I'd like to be, that's what I'm trying to be

  

  Quintin Jardine
  • Trying

• I was 23 when I wrote 'Neighbors,' and I definitely look back at it now and cringe a little bit. I was trying to understand what drama was.

  

  Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
  • Trying
  • Drama

• Even when I was saying I was Agnostic and trying to figure out my thoughts, I felt God was allowing me to do that.

  

  Alfre Woodard
  • God
  • Trying
  • Thoughts

• Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just trying to get in and you're given so little time to get in gently, but it's always hard.

  

  William Hurt
  • Actors
  • Offensive
  • Arbitrary

• My nemesis - my downfall, if you will - was relationships, and trying to fulfill them.

  

  Jennifer O'Neill
  • Trying

• Talent isn't really enough to make it in any world. If you're trying to be a superstar, or at the highest rate of fame, you have to have personality too. You have to be a well-rounded person. It takes way more than talent nowadays.

  

  Russell Llantino
  • World
  • Trying
  • Personality

• In features, we're languid: we shoot one or two scenes over, like, three days. In TV, the pace is so different. You're shooting ten scenes a day, going way into the future or way back into the past. It's complete madness, and I'm just trying to keep up with this really electric pace.

  

  Priyanka Chopra
  • Up
  • Different
  • Future

• I believe Obama is a lot of fun when he's not trying to keep our economy together.

  

  Channing Tatum
  • Believe
  • Together
  • Fun

• I'm learning simplicity and how to wear my body. I'm enjoying life and trying to be the best me.

  

  Gelila Bekele
  • Life
  • Learning
  • Simplicity

• Basically, a manager is a father figure to 20 or 25 blokes. It's about trying to get the best out of them and creating team spirit.

  

  Alan Shearer
  • Trying
  • Father
  • Team

• We are writing fiction, but we are trying to create a world that's believable.

  

  Mary Kay Andrews
  • World
  • Writing
  • Trying

• We tend to run our whole life trying to avoid all that hurts or displeases us, noticing the objects, people, or situations that we think will give us pain or pleasure, avoiding one and pursuing the other.

  

  Joko Beck
  • People
  • Life
  • Pain

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