Trying Quotes

• I was trying to create products to complement the pop-up blocker. All these people were giving me their credit cards. I figured I could sell them something else.

  

  Jon Oringer
  • People
  • Up
  • Giving

• I'm always exploring other people: trying to figure out myself, trying to figure out everyone.

  

  Bryan Lee O'Malley
  • People
  • Trying

• I still have my agent back in Australia keeping an eye on things there, and we are trying to find the right job which will bring me home to shoot.

  

  Margot Robbie
  • Trying
  • Home
  • Job

• And they'd [the Death Eaters] love to have me," said Harry sarcastically. "We'd be best pals if they didn't keep trying to do me in.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Trying
  • Death

• If my career isn't going that well, I'd rather it flounder than desperately trying to show up on red carpets: 'I'm for hire! Remember me!'

  

  James McAvoy
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Career

• Poetry is poetry. My process is I try to write the best poem I can, in the best way to communicate whatever it is the poem is trying to communicate, and then I try to figure out the best way to present that poem to a live audience. It's all craft, just different stages of craft.

  

  Bao Phi
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Live

• One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Book
  • January
  • Windy

• I actually started trying to be a professional writer with novels, and I wrote two that exist and are around... kind of. But they never really went anyplace in particular. I still like them both. What it showed me was that you can spend years on a novel, and then it could just be, like, OK, you spent that time and that's that.

  

  Charles Soule
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Professional

• I attend to my fitness. I go the gym every day and try to maintain my physical fitness; without that, it is tough to take challenges on the chess board.

  

  Viswanathan Anand
  • Challenges
  • Tough
  • Chess

• I don't need many things. I don't need glamour and attention to be happy. I'm very happy being settled and working my butt off and trying to win grand slams.

  

  Maria Sharapova
  • Trying
  • Happy
  • Attention

• 'Rocket Science' is really where I fell in love with filmmaking, I think 'Camp' was incredible, but it was so bizarre, and I was trying to find my footing in this world where you don't have an audience for immediate validation.

  

  Anna Kendrick
  • World
  • Trying
  • Science

• Every note leaves in each of us a memory, but it is the melody as a whole that tells a story, the story of someone wanting to get closer to another person and who keeps on trying, despite repeated rejections.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Trying

• You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper.

  

  Mort Walker
  • Trying
  • Cities
  • Comic

• When problems arise, you will usually find two types of people: whiners and winners. Whiners obstruct progress; they spend hours complaining about this point or that, without offering positive solutions. Winners acknowledge the existence of the problem, but they try to offer practical ideas that can help resolve the matter in a manner that is satisfactory to both parties.

  

  George Foreman
  • People
  • Party
  • Progress

• It is hard to imagine any single special interest trying to buy an office without a motive.

  

  Luther Strange
  • Trying
  • Single

• It's been in the back of my head for five or six years, but more on the local level to get involved and try to create a better environment for my children and grandchildren.

  

  Jon Runyan
  • Children
  • Environment
  • Grandchildren

• You have to write the story that's at the front of your head. There is no point in trying to write for the market; it won't ring true.

  

  Jojo Moyes
  • Trying
  • True

• One of the things Thich Nhat Hanh taught me: he says, "When you're in a hurry, go slower." That works every time, unless you're trying to catch a plane.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Trying
  • Taught
  • Planes

• The good thing about playing with other musicians is that it's much easier to make the translation to playing live. It's much more difficult if you're trying to take something you've overdubbed alone on stage. But again, there are some benefits.

  

  Steve Winwood Blind Faith
  • Difficult
  • Musician
  • Benefits

• When the good student chooses the honest path, free of perfectionism and faking, music study becomes something refreshingly new: a calm oasis of self-acceptance for those who are so used to driving themselves and trying to please others.

  

  William Westney
  • Driving
  • Honest
  • Calm

• I would say that my whole career is effectively trying to be a storyteller within the context of financial news.

  

  Andrew Ross Sorkin
  • Trying
  • Career
  • Financial

• I bear a burden that might well try Men that do all by rule, And what can I That am a wandering-witted fool But pray to God that He ease My great responsibilities?

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Men
  • Faith
  • Responsibility

• If we want to write, it makes sense to read—and to read like a writer. If we wanted to grow roses, we would want to visit rose gardens and try to see them the way that a rose gardener would.

  

  Francine Prose
  • Writing
  • Would
  • Gardener

• If you're an athlete and you completely focus on the body, you're missing other components. Similarly, if you're trying to broaden your mind but not also being attentive to your sense of humour and your spirit, then you're not going to grow and develop so fast.

  

  Aimee Mullins
  • Mind
  • Focus
  • Missing

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