Trying Quotes
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Passing time isn't a steady thing. People try to measure it, but some days seem to have years packed into them, and others pass in the blink of an eye. Some days matter, and others don't.
Blue Balliett
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Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.
Robert Wyatt
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Do not let anyone discourage you. If they try: get determined, not depressed.
Judy Blume
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I feel like karma is something that's real. I try and be the best possible person I can be, but not only that I try to help as many people as possible and influence others in a positive manner. And that's all stuff brought on by MMA because I want to be successful so want to be the best possible person.
Danny Castillo
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Now, I talk to athletes who answer questions with a 'yeah'. I realize I used to do that. Or they answer very quickly and you stand there trying to come up with another question to ask. I've seen both sides and it's been very educational.
Evelyn Ashford
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I do care a great deal about the environment but my real work and my greatest challenge is trying to overcome deceits that end up jeopardizing public health and safety.
Erin Brockovich
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I am at my worst trying to write about things that overlap with my life.
Jennifer Egan
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I try as best as I can to have a normal life. People recognise you, of course, and that's very strange. But I sort of leave my working life behind when I go home. That's my other world.
Saoirse Ronan
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Youth moves out, leaving no forwarding address. No matter how you try, you can't reach that person again or that place.
Rita Mae Brown
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I feel like you can't get an audience to like your character if she's actually cool, but you can if she's trying to be cool and sometimes fails.
Anna Kendrick
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A strange side effect of sudden success is the sense that if you can succeed in one field, then it might well be worth trying to succeed in another.
Lisa Jewell
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All I'm trying to do is be me.
Austin Seferian-Jenkins
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I remember watching steak being cooked on TV and wanting to try it. As a special treat, my mother cooked it for me, and I thought this would be the time I would eat with a knife and fork. Alas, I ate it with chopsticks!
Nobu Matsuhisa
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You never know what you can do till you try.
William Cobbett
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My advice is precisely the advice my mother gave me. If you believe you have talent, the next thing you must have is determination. If you keep working, keep striving, and try always to move forward a little bit with every job you do, you'll eventually make it. And I believe that!
Cass Elliot The Mamas & The Papas
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The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.
William Gibson
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All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.
Ernest Gaines
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Try to be inspired by something every day. Try to inspire at least one person every day.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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As a band, it's just me trying to please my own basement-hardcore sensibilities that I grew up with. It's not actually the future of anything, it's totally nostalgia.
Geoff Rickly
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Often, failure is success trying to be born in a bigger way, and persistence helps you to experience that greater result.
Catherine Ponder
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“When I'm shooting in other cities, I'm just trying to make it look like California.”
Alex Prager
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Sometimes people with low self-esteem will try to punish you for caring about them.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
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I try to be sensitive, but the atmosphere I create is very supportive. One overriding premise of the series is that guilt is not heritable. It's good to know about them, but you are not responsible for them. You don't have to apologize for them. It's a process of knowing, and the more you know, the richer the sense of yourself. The firmer your foundation as a human being is
Henry Louis Gates
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You're trying to bring a character to an audience, and tell stories. That's what we're all trying do.
Jonny Lee Miller