Trying Quotes

• I always tell people, when they ask me what to do to be a writer or to be a performer, the key is to go to a place where there are a lot of other people who are trying to do the same thing as you and taking it very seriously.

  

  Colin Jost
  • People
  • Trying

• How do you do something where you're able to be specific and edgy enough to compete with what the cable networks are doing and, at the same time, appeal to a broader audience? That's the line that everyone in network television is trying to tread.

  

  Jason Katims
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Edgy

• I have seen it stated that no expert is quick enough to run over a dog; that a dog is always able to skip out of his way. I think that that may be true; but I think that the reason he couldn't run over the dog was because he was trying to. I did not try to run over any dog. But I ran over every dog that came along.

  

  Mark Twain
  • May
  • True
  • Dog

• I'm not 21 and trying to prove something with my words.

  

  Jaromir Jagr
  • Trying
  • Words

• Superman when he goes after someone is essentially not trying to beat them, he is trying to save them from themselves... You're looking at a God who walks amongst men!

  

  Max Landis
  • God
  • Men
  • Superman

• When I was eight or nine, I wrote a new version of 'Peter Pan' for the school play. They didn't use it - I imagine it was unperformable - but as recompense for not doing my script, I was offered any role, and instinctively went for Captain Hook. I came on trying to be terrifying, but everyone laughed at me.

  

  Arthur Smith
  • Trying
  • School

• Also by my earliest days, I was fascinated by a utopian vision of what the world could be like. I've thought that science could be the basis for a better world, and that's what I've been trying to do all these years.

  

  George E. Brown, Jr.
  • World
  • Science
  • Vision

• Your mind will always try to complete what it pictures, so always picture success no matter haw badly things are going at the moment.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Mind
  • Success
  • Moments

• The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Giving
  • Letting Go

• I wouldn't say that I'm actually trying to cause chills in the audience, but certainly my goal is to, at the very least, effect a physiological response - at the most, to effect some sort of state change, ideally, in the audience.

  

  Eric Whitacre
  • Trying

• If by the expression "not practical" you mean "not easy," you are right. Definitely it is not easy. Yet it should be tried. You may say it is risky trying it. Surely it cannot be more risky than trying a nuclear war.

  

  Walpola Rahula
  • Should
  • Expression
  • Nuclear

• The best thing that I got was rehearsing with my father. It was always about the process of figuring things out, and trying something new, and having another take on something and keeping it alive.

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal
  • Trying
  • Father

• I was told once if I kept breaking things on my legs, that I wasn't going to be able to walk soon, you know? I wanted to be a pro skateboarder, but it was too hard. I was trying, but it wasn't going to happen.

  

  Travis Barker Blink-182
  • Able
  • Walks
  • Legs

• And if you can't shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it.

  

  C.P. Cavafy
  • Life
  • Want
  • Shapes

• My dream is to be a doctor. I'm almost working in a laboratory, because I'm trying new techniques, new directions and fabrics, new weaving.

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • Trying
  • Dream

• I'd been trying for all of the eight years we'd been married to have a child, and finally I did.

  

  Marie Windsor
  • Trying

• Sunday is like this entertainment scrum for me, because I've only got a day, one day of fun. So I want to have brunch, and I want to see a movie, and I want to watch 'Game of Thrones,' and I'm trying to watch 'The Sopranos' from the beginning, and I want to play four hours of video games. So, it's, like, as regimented as my work life.

  

  Aisha Tyler
  • Life
  • Work
  • Movie

• Two Chinamen visiting Europe went to the theatre for the first time. One of them occupied himself with trying to understand the theatrical machinery, which he succeeded in doing. The other, despite his ignorance of the language, sought to unravel the meaning of the play. The former is like the astronomer, the latter the philosopher.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Time
  • Theatre
  • Ignorance

• A creature revolting against a creator is revolting against the source of his own powers-including even his power to revolt...It is like the scent of a flower trying to destroy the flower.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Power
  • Flower
  • Atheist

• What I know for sure: Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Live
  • Power

• I always try and mix High Street finds into my looks. It really doesn't matter how much something costs, it's the way you wear it! Fashion is about self expression, having fun, and occasionally being a little disposable. I really enjoy lots of stores that are found at local shopping malls. French Connection, Zara, and Topshop always interpret the fashions direct from the catwalk at affordable prices. This playsuit from Hoss Intropia is delicate, super sexy, and has a lingerie feel. I'd throw on a super soft, chunky cardigan and a pair of flat gladiator sandals.

  

  Cat Deeley
  • Fun
  • Fashion
  • Enjoy

• Growth comes out of a healthy competitive atmosphere, not trying to choose a particular path forward.

  

  Edward Felten
  • Trying
  • Growth
  • Path

• I don't go into a game with specific targets. I don't pinpoint an opposing player before a match, trying to exploit a kind of weakness.

  

  Diego Costa
  • Trying
  • Game
  • Player

• The more times and the more different things you try, the more likely it is that you will succeed.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Time
  • Different
  • More

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