Trying Quotes

• The inspiration for my novels comes from the depths of a creative well, based on asking myself questions over and over. I try to write something different each time I sit down to write; I try to surprise the readers.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Inspiration

• My whole life, I've been trying to make people proud.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • People
  • Life
  • Proud

• I spend all my time trying to avoid the spotlight.

  

  Carl Forti
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Spotlight

• I'd like to be out in the city every day, listening to what people are saying and asking about what they need. I'd like to inspire others by doing as much as I can to help people who are trying to make a better life for themselves and others.

  

  Chirlane McCray
  • People
  • Life
  • Help

• When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere that you're trying to put into words.

  

  Keren Ann
  • Words
  • Inspired
  • Mood

• Maybe to try to understand not just that we are living in a certain building or in a certain location, but to become aware that we are living on a planet that is going at enormous speed through the universe.

  

  Andreas Gursky
  • World
  • Universe
  • Building

• As a woman, and as a working mom trying to get things done, you find yourself meeting adversity a lot, but you never talk about it because you don't want to bring attention to it. You don't want to go there.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Done
  • Attention
  • Mom

• Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Up
  • Search
  • Falling In Love

• I'll never get another first premiere again, especially at Sundance. I've just been trying to fully engage myself in everything that's going on, and I hope to see other movies here while I'm here! I really want to!

  

  Harley Quinn Smith
  • Trying
  • Hope
  • Myself

• I try to not get to the point where one is making wallpaper, or simply painting money. I want to make sure that I am at least trying to weigh myself down, that there's a challenge each time.

  

  Martin Mull
  • Time
  • Money
  • Want

• Since I was very young I've been fascinated with nature and I actually wanted to be a marine biologist when I was very young. That was a great passion of mine. So I suppose in the off season when I'm not making movies, I became more and more active as an environmentalist trying to be more vocal about issues that I felt were important.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Great
  • Important
  • Nature

• I honestly believe there are good things happening in this world, and I'll spend most of my time trying to find them and bring them to light.

  

  Jesse L. Martin
  • Time
  • World
  • Good

• When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside the characters I've got.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• You can drive yourself crazy and tie yourself in knots trying to anticipate what someone's going to like or not like, and doing test screenings and opinion polls. But pay too much mind to that, and you'll wind up with a big pile of mush.

  

  Kevin Feige
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Crazy

• People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers his fears, his disgusts, his tone of voice? It is like trying to bring back the weather of that time.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • People
  • Time
  • May

• I'm trying to have a family and a career.

  

  Pilou Asbaek
  • Trying
  • Family
  • Career

• I spent the '90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony.

  

  Brad Pitt
  • Trying
  • Celebrity

• When you're trying to lose weight, one of the most important things you can do is eat three decent meals a day so that you're not so hungry that you can't get food off your mind. Habit and hunger have long been the basic, insidious enemies of the overweight. We can't fight hunger, but we can fight habit.

  

  Jean Nidetch
  • Long
  • Important
  • Mind

• My parents had a software company making children's software for the Apple II+, Commodore 64 and Acorn computers. They hired these teenagers to program the software, and these guys were true hackers, trying to get more colors and sound and animation out of those computers.

  

  Bre Pettis
  • Children
  • True
  • Parents

• My worst hair experience was when I was trying to relax my hair and my grandmother did it. It went all straight and I looked like a black Bee Gee.

  

  Jamie Foxx
  • Experience
  • Black
  • Hair

• I'm trying to learn the lessons of the past, but not to make speeches about the past.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Trying
  • Past
  • Learn

• You don't come to work going, 'Oh my God, I've got all this money I have to worry about'. You come to work going, 'I need more time and more money'. Because whatever resources you're given, you're always trying to push the envelope.

  

  Jonathan Mostow
  • Time
  • Work
  • God

• I've learnt that you tend most to make a div of yourself when you're trying to cover up the fact that you don't know what you're doing. And that simply saying 'I don't know what I'm doing' is a massive relief.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Up
  • Yourself
  • Saying

• I've been doing a lot of stuff that has to do with charity and giving. I'm trying to give and not take as much.

  

  Mark Indelicato
  • Trying
  • Giving
  • Charity

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