Trying Quotes

• I try to count the blessings rather than the problems.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Trying
  • Problem
  • Blessing

• You should show encouragement whenever you can. People try harder when they know that someone cares about them.

  

  Stephanie Perkins
  • People
  • Care
  • Encouragement

• I'm trying to use myself and my own flawedness as a metaphor for general human experience. I'm trying to 'stand next to' a subject, whether it's Bobby Knight or Vince Carter, and use that subject to meditate on both him and me.

  

  David Shields
  • Trying
  • Experience

• My family and I are just regular folks, just trying to get through the day and do the best you can and pay the bills, and that's who we're singing to.

  

  Rodney Atkins
  • Trying
  • Family
  • Singing

• This one isn’t just any old horse. There’s a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and never can be? I tell you, my friend, there’s divinity in a horse, and specially in a horse like this. God got it right the day he created them. And to find a horse like this in the middle of this filthy abomination of a war, is for me like finding a butterfly on a dung heap. We don’t belong in the same universe as a creature like this.

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • War
  • Eye
  • Horse

• I always try to keep my constituents as up-to-date as possible with what's going on here in Washington.

  

  Steve Israel
  • Trying
  • Quitting
  • Constituents

• You know how sometimes department stores have these things where, if you win, you get 10 minutes to go in and take anything you want from the store? That's basically what I'm doing. I'm running in and just trying to grab as many characters as possible before they pull the plug on me.

  

  Ryan Gosling
  • Character
  • Running
  • Sometimes

• I try to attach myself to people who really inspire me, and directors who are really passionate. That way, I can give myself more fully and trust the impulse behind why the film is being made, and I can be a little more irresponsible in finding out what the character is.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • People
  • Character
  • Giving

• I'm really not trying to do everything that comes to mind because that's when it can be dangerous. For instance, I believe as much as possible, how your camera moves and flies around should be limited to the physics of how you could do it in real life.

  

  Taika Waititi
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Mind

• It is inspiring to see bands still trying to do significant and new things in the realm of sound. Most people in any category are more or less filling out the forms they've been handed. But there are always exceptional gems.

  

  David First
  • People
  • Categories
  • Exceptional

• I try to manage my day by my circadian rhythms because the creativity is such an elusive thing, and I could easily just stomp over it doing my administrative stuff.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Creativity
  • Rhythm
  • Manage

• When you see a struggle that you may be having personally put on a big screen and in a roomful of people, then it makes you feel less crazy or alone, because you're seeing that other people are dealing with it too. You get to see in this imaginary scenario how people might try and answer some questions or deal with some problems.

  

  Michael Shannon
  • People
  • Problem
  • Crazy

• I am at my worst trying to write about things that overlap with my life.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Life
  • Trying

• The old model of the industry was founded largely upon business folk trying to make money off artists. At EMP, we let the music make the money, not the other way around. We have flipped the model to make the artistry be at the forefront of everything we do. Music makes the business and that's what makes it work.

  

  David Ellefson
  • Money
  • Everything
  • Making

• If you're one of the hundreds of thousands of people out there toiling over your unpublished manuscript, trying to make your way across that vast ocean in a bathtub, I can only say this to you: keep paddling. Well, either that or start vlogging.

  

  John Niven
  • People
  • Trying
  • Ocean

• But in Hiroshima, some people were wiped clean away, leaving only a wristwatch or a diary page. So no matter that I have inhibitions to fill all my pockets, I keep trying, hoping that one day I'll write a poem I can be proud to let sit in a museum exhibit as the only proof I existed.

  

  Sarah Kay
  • People
  • Writing
  • Leaving

• There's the 5% of the people that are wise and righteous and I'd definitely be amongst them, building, communicating, and continuing to try and figure out how we can awaken the 85%. The 85% are walking around [like] cattle, not realizing the things we do, the violence we do; you see people falling victim to all sorts of unnecessary things because they just don't know the way and nobody is showing them the way.

  

  Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
  • People
  • Fall
  • Violence

• I'm trying to use the camera to get into people's heads. I use camera techniques a lot to articulate character.

  

  Tony Scott
  • People
  • Character
  • Cameras

• If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • inspirational
  • Gun

• The only planning I do is about a minute before I play. I desperately try to think of something that will be effective, but I never sit down and work it out note for note.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Thinking
  • Working
  • Planning

• the very minute we think we 'have' God, God will surprise us. As we search in fire and earthquakes, God will be in the still small voice. As we listen in silent meditation, God will be shouting protests in the street. God is warning us that we had best not try to find our security in any well-defined concept or category of what is Godly - for the minute we believe we are into God, God is off again and calling us forth into some unknown place.

  

  Carter Heyward
  • God
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• I often had to pass over photographs because in a mass of animals invariably one would be wandering in the wrong direction, thereby disrupting the pattern I was trying to achieve. Today the ability to digitally alter this disruption is at hand.

  

  Art Wolfe
  • Today
  • Animal
  • Achieve

• There's no future without the past and anybody who doesn't really understand where jazz has come from has no right to try to direct where it's going.

  

  Cannonball Adderley
  • Past
  • Jazz
  • Direct

• Washington agencies are now trying a backdoor approach to regulate our climate by abusing existing laws.

  

  John Barrasso
  • Trying

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