Trying Quotes

• I don't think I've ever gone on stage to be an asshole. I know one thing, from the past, and that's that my intentions always began in a pure way. I really want to just try and play the songs.

  

  Ryan Adams
  • Song
  • Past
  • Play

• I try to be aware of what I'm concerned about, aware of how I feel about myself in the world, aware of how I feel about the issues of the day, but I guess I don't want to write essays in my head about my craft and maybe it's because I teach and talk about craft of other writers as a reader. I feel the moment I start doing that is when it's going to kill me.

  

  Chang-Rae Lee
  • World
  • Writing
  • Trying

• Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Trying
  • Film

• I do not like the world as it is; so I am trying to make it a little more as I want it.

  

  Helen Keller
  • World
  • Trying

• They stood there, King of the Hill, Top of the Heap, Ruler of All They Surveyed, Unimpeachable Monarchs and Presidents, trying to understand what it meant to own a world and how big a world really was.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • World
  • Leadership
  • President

• In the new covenant, God doesn't want us to be blessed when we obey the law and cursed when we fail. Doesn't such a system sound awfully similar to the old covenant? Grace is the undeserved, unmerited and unearned favor of God - the moment you try to merit the free favors of God, His grace is nullified.

  

  Joseph Prince
  • Moments
  • Blessed
  • Grace

• What the commission that myself and Leon Panetta is trying to do is analyze this in two respects. First of all, what's the right military response and security response?

  

  Tony Blair
  • Military
  • Security
  • Response

• I always try to be optimistic, but not to the point where I'm getting on people's nerves.

  

  Nick Cannon
  • Trying
  • Optimistic
  • Nerves

• We do want the freedom to move scenes from episode to episode to episode. And we do want the freedom to move writing from episode to episode to episode, because as it starts to come in and as you start to look at it as a five-hour movie just like you would in a two-hour movie, move a scene from the first 30 minutes to maybe 50 minutes in. In a streaming series, you would now be in a different episode. It's so complicated, and we're so still using the rules that were built for episodic television that we're really trying to figure it out.

  

  Jill Soloway
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Complicated

• I'm always trying to prove to my 17-year-old self that I can do creative things I thought weren't possible.

  

  Virgil Abloh
  • Trying
  • Creative
  • Possible

• I feel no obligation to teach my readers anything, to impart any sort of wisdom, to teach any sort of lesson, to instill any sort of morality. All I'm trying to do is make them and their parents laugh.

  

  Michael Ian Black
  • Feels
  • Parent
  • Teach

• I'm trying to teach people of all ages to, number one: how to criticize, how to offer creative analysis on top of that, how to try to build things in a new direction and how to compliment people when the thing gets done.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Age
  • Creative
  • Teach

• Maybe other writers have perfect first drafts, but I am not one of them. I always try to get the book as tight as I can, but you reach a point as the author where you have lost all perspective.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Book
  • Perfect
  • Perspective

• How many million Aprils came before I ever knew how white a cherry bough could be, a bed of squills, how blue And many a dancing April when life is done with me, will lift the blue flame of the flower and the white flame of the tree Oh burn me with your beauty then, oh hurt me tree and flower, lest in the end death try to take even this glistening hour.

  

  Sara Teasdale
  • Hurt
  • Tree
  • Spring

• The biggest difference between people is between those who are trying to do the right thing - whether or not they succeed - and those for whom the only question is how much they can get away with.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Trying
  • Differences
  • Succeed

• Every time you try to make another movie, you never know what will come of it. I can't say it ever gets easier, but it is in it's own way gratifying. I think that because no one movie that you make ever quite satisfies you, you're always feeling, "Next time I can get it right."

  

  Todd Solondz
  • Way
  • Feelings
  • Easier

• I know what it’s like to be manipulated, Aya-la. And I know what it’s like to be in danger. While your city was building you mansions to live in, my friends and I have been protecting this planet. We’ve spilled more blood than you have flowing in your veins. So don’t try to make me feel guilty! -Tally Youngblood, Extras

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Building
  • Guilty
  • Danger

• What is the fundamental hypothesis of science, the fundamental philosophy? We stated it in the first chapter: the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment. ... If we are told that the same experiment will always produce the same result, that is all very well, but if when we try it, it does not, then it does not. We just have to take what we see, and then formulate all the rest of our ideas in terms of our actual experience.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Philosophy
  • Term
  • Math

• If asked whether I am finally letting God love me, just as I am, I would answer, 'No, but I'm trying.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Trying
  • God Love

• Don't ever give up. You gotta keep trying, and never give up.

  

  Ryan Sheckler
  • Trying

• We're all trying to be artists making our own unique statements. I think the only real way to do that is through failure.

  

  Ryan Guzman
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Artist

• We're always trying to stay on the cutting edge but also, at the same time, do something that's real. We're never going to do something that's not us.

  

  Howard Dwaine Dorough The Backstreet Boys
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Cutting

• If at the one moment in your life when the chance of something transcendental is offered to you, if you have this chance to move beyond the surface of things, to understand - and you say, No, maybe not... What then? How do you explain the rest of your life to yourself? How do you pass the time until you die? Do you substitute for that an interest in what - eating? Do you spend the next sixty years trying to be fascinated by the act of breathing?

  

  Sebastian Faulks
  • Moments
  • Moving
  • Chance

• I've really learned not to try to take responsibility for all things. And to keep my side of the street clean.

  

  Sharon Stone
  • Responsibility
  • Sides
  • Streets

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