Trying Quotes

• I had opportunities to stay on shows for long periods of time, and maybe financially that would have been good, but I feel good about trying to keep doing things that are a little bit different than what I've done.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • Time
  • Good
  • Different

• In business, you're trying to make a buck. God was good to me and blessed me. I made some money and started this foundation years ago, and it has grown in size. With the foundation it's a lot different, because the bottom line isn't how you can make more money or get a better return, it's helping the projects that you feel strongly about move forward.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Good
  • God
  • Different

• St. Louis is more humid. But after a while, the heat started taking a toll on us, so we started rotating a little more up front trying to stay fresh out here.

  

  Leonard Little
  • Up
  • Trying

• I still feel like I'm trying to make it. It's hard to shed the struggling actor thing.

  

  Mark Ruffalo
  • Trying

• 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

• None of us need one more person bashing or pointing out where we have failed or fallen short. Most of us are already well aware of the areas in which we are weak. What each of us does need is family, friends, employers, and brothers and sisters who support us, who have the patience to teach us, who believe in us, and who believe we’re trying to do the best we can, in spite of our weaknesses. What ever happened to giving each other the benefit of the doubt? What ever happened to hoping that another person would succeed or achieve? What ever happened to rooting for each other?

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Friends

• All Americans knew was 'The Joy Luck Club' and children of dry cleaners trying to assimilate. The Asia that I was seeing was a world of people who are incredibly sophisticated, and I wanted to represent that side.

  

  Kevin Kwan
  • People
  • World
  • Children

• You're trying to sleep off a debt that you've lumbered your brain and body with during the week, and wouldn't it be lovely if sleep worked like that? Sadly, it doesn't. Sleep is not like the bank, so you can't accumulate a debt and then try and pay it off at a later point in time.

  

  Matthew Walker
  • Time
  • Sleep
  • Brain

• When you've got eight or nine or ten cables running around with someone trying to operate them, it's too much.

  

  Peter Mayhew
  • Trying
  • Running

• My advice to teens is to try and do something that scares you every day because it's the only way you can test how far you can really go.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Trying
  • Advice
  • Scare

• When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell.

  

  Paul Claudel
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Imagination

• Look, dear! How adorable. When pop music tries its very hardest, it can be almost as good as Sven Hassel.

  

  David Bennun
  • Music
  • Hardest
  • Adorable

• The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.

  

  Edward Tufte
  • Trying
  • Art
  • Science

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

  

  Anna Held
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Happy

• At no time was I trying to write a crossover record.

  

  Luis Fonsi
  • Time
  • Trying

• I had just done what she does in the story just about a year earlier - I moved from New Jersey and came to New York and was working at a bar, and you know, trying to make it.

  

  Piper Perabo
  • Trying
  • Done
  • She

• I'm a task-oriented actor. A pretender. And I try to invent my process anew each time I make a new project. So I frown on any method.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Actors
  • Method
  • Pretender

• Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future; it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present moment somewhat uncomfortable.

  

  Martha Beck
  • Future
  • Present
  • Anxiety

• I like smart rappers who aren't necessarily trying to be deeper than you, like Danny Brown.

  

  Kelela Mizanekristos
  • Trying
  • Smart

• The path I am trying so hard to follow is in fact the one that God my Father and His Son Jesus Christ want me to pursue. It has brought me deep happiness.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • God
  • Father
  • Jesus

• I'm trying hard not to use a specific reference, but you'll probably know it's you after the first sentence.

  

  Donald Glover
  • Firsts
  • Use
  • Sentences

• I love going into rehearsals day after day for three, four weeks, trying stuff, coming back the next day, building on that. So many times I'd drive home from the studio after shooting and I'd be thinking about a certain moment, and I'd think, "Oh, I know what to do!"

  

  Anthony Heald
  • Trying
  • Coming Back
  • Rehearsals

• Once upon a time, an editor could try out one or two wacky books, knowing full well that their list would counterbalance any risk with a stable of best-sellers and safe bets. Nowadays, every book must earn its own bread. With low overheads and an often episodic operating status, the small independent press is nicely placed to snap up the most innovative literature going at the moment. To take the risks. Meaning that small presses are no longer just outfits set up to publish your or your friends' work. They have something genuinely important to offer.

  

  Andrew Latimer Camel
  • Important
  • Book
  • Moments

• I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Hopeless

1

...

286

287

288

289

290

...

404

previous

next