Trying Quotes

• When you surrender and stop resisting and stop trying to change that which you can't change, but be in the moment, be fully open to the blessings you've already received and those that are yet to come and stand in that space of gratitude ... and look at where you are and how far you've come and what you've accomplished - when you can claim THAT and SEE that, the literal vibration of your life will change.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Change
  • Stop

• I don't want to be known as the guy who always takes his shirt off... I've done a lot of photo shoots lately for the press coming up with 'Immortals' and 'Breaking Dawn,' and every photographer wants to get the topless shot. We've really had to be choosy and not do that for every magazine. I've actually been trying to keep my clothes on more.

  

  Kellan Lutz
  • Up
  • Done
  • Guy

• I've never been about just trying to do what works. I've been about trying to authentically express how I feel.

  

  Andy Mineo
  • Trying

• Any UFC fighter, and any fighter going into the boxing ring and can do what they do in the UFC, nine out of 10 won't be victorious and vice-versa, with a boxer coming from - even myself - coming over to that field will be a fish trying to be in a jungle and survive. It's not going to happen.

  

  Bernard Hopkins
  • Trying
  • Boxing

• Well, I was always really mature for my age. I'm an above-age reader. I'm not trying to come off like, 'I have a high IQ number. My parents gave me the test.' That's the way I was, I guess. I am still a kid. I love doing kid activities. I'm such a kid, but when I'm on set, I do like to be professional.

  

  Atticus Shaffer
  • High
  • Age
  • Parents

• Living in New York City, you have to keep trying to do a lot of things.

  

  Caroline Shaw
  • Trying
  • City

• I've got a chip on my shoulder, and honestly, I've always had it, but I don't think about it in those terms, like I'm trying to be better than this guy or that guy. It just helps keep me focused.

  

  Doug Baldwin
  • Trying
  • Guy

• You have these kids trying to make these grown up decisions because nobody is talking to them. We're talking at them, but we're not listening to them.

  

  Lil Rel Howery
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Listening

• Often, some people dress something up to make it sound scientific, use scientific words, call themselves doctor something-or-other, and then you look them up, and they're trying to make it sound like something it's not. There's this entire field that's adding the word 'quantum' to everything. It doesn't even make sense in that context.

  

  Elise Andrew
  • People
  • Up
  • Words

• The complaint lies with me, not with you. I never could find a way to make you proud of me, and at some point, I think I stopped trying. When you were here, I blamed you for that. I think now, the failure is mine... It occurs to me that death is a funny thing - not funny in a laughter sort of way, but in a twisty sort of way. It's the people who are left behind who have to grapple with the regret. The one who is gone is just gone. Wherever you are... I hope you have regret about what happened yesterday.

  

  Craig Lancaster
  • Death
  • Proud
  • Blamed

• The richness of America is that we are diverse. We're not Sweden. We're not Norway. We are a great American experiment. And as soon as we start trying to forget race or turn our back on race, number one, we don't confront the real racial realities that still persist.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Great
  • Real
  • American

• I broke my finger in a stunt in a very not-too-romantic way. I was just trying to tackle someone, and I just flicked his forearm and then screamed in pain.

  

  Chris Pine
  • Trying
  • Pain
  • Romantic

• I'm trying to leave more of my calendar open for the spontaneous things. A lot of fun stuff that happened in previous years were things that were like, 'Hey are you available next week?' I wasn't really open unless it was planned months in advance. I'm excited to play it by ear and let a lot of stuff happen as it happens.

  

  Tyler Oakley
  • Trying
  • Fun

• If you're having trouble finishing a book, it might be that you're trying to fix it as you go. Just finish the story, no matter how terrible you think that first draft is. Then let it cool off. In other words, don't look at it for a while. Then you can rewrite it.

  

  Kimberly Willis Holt
  • Book
  • Words
  • Cool

• I don't think Obama is trying to take our guns, and I don't think we have to fight the government to keep them.

  

  Armie Hammer
  • Trying

• Ultimately when you have the perspective of why you're competing and what you're trying to pursue, the rest just falls into place.

  

  David Boudia
  • Perspective
  • Pursue
  • Competing

• It got a little stressful in my first two years of high school, trying to make conference calls with investors in between classes, but I definitely learned a lot of important time-management lessons.

  

  Ben Casnocha
  • Time
  • Important
  • School

• I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes. That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite.

  

  Leo Baekeland
  • Up
  • Different
  • Trying

• I have given up trying to be happy. It is no use and leads to nothing.

  

  Anna Held
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Happy

• Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let Time try.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Time
  • Justice
  • Offenders

• I've always had a foot in everything. As a kid, I was active in sports and theater. Now, I'm learning I have to focus a bit. I'm trying to get to next projects, like writing a screenplay. Once that comes together, I could put my mind to another book - maybe a fun kids' book.

  

  Maz Jobrani
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Book

• So much of writing is discovery. Sometimes I feel like a rat in a maze, trying to discover the way out. My little heart is beating, and I'm racing down a path thinking, this is the route, it will get me there, as I turn this way and then that.

  

  Will Hobbs
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Heart

• We're trying to bring improved seeds to rural villages to increase yields. We're also trying to improve the roads to make it easier for people to get their produce to the market.

  

  Augustin Matata Ponyo
  • People
  • Trying

• I'm just trying to get those marquee victories and continue to get those accomplishments so when the time comes and the vote is cast, hopefully my spot is secured in the Boxing Hall of Fame.

  

  Andre Ward
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Boxing

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