Trying Quotes

The important aspect as we look at this budget, and as we look at previous budgets, is the budget system - what I'm trying to get at is changing budgeting itself in Wisconsin.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

Our people went out every single night trying to stop crime before it happened, trying to take people off the street that they believed were involved in crime. That made us a very aggressive, proactive police department.

Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying.

I was trying to do Billie Holiday, because she was the voice to be heard at that time.

My level of intervention in the press, trying to control stories, is zero. Subzero.

Normally when I work with bands I'm trying to refine and improve what's already there.

Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation.

I've had an advantage; I've had a sort of open public acceptance in New York that doesn't happen to just anyone trying to make the transition you were talking about.

I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.

For me, running for office is never about trying to destroy an opponent, be it Democratic or Republican. It really ought to be about how can we solve some problems that we're facing.

Now I walk around with my head down, trying to hide, thinking that everybody knows that I inflicted people with HIV, because that is all they are going to read.

The automotive corporations, including Ford, I think are in the business of trying to make cars that people will drive.

I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.

If you're an unattractive girl who's trying to be beautiful with Botox, forget it. If you are a beautiful girl who's trying to be beautiful with Botox, you will look like you're angry all the time.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

Some of my first teachers were incredibly tough. You could never sing more than three words without being stopped and having to do it over 20 times. I loved that - that sort of process of dissecting and trying to figure out and master this incredibly mysterious instrument.

I was trying to change things on the outside and you can't. You've got to feel it on the inside and everything else will change.

The joy of songwriting only gets messed up if you are trying to follow up a big success, or you are trying to create a hit single, or if you have conscious thoughts of a particular outcome for the music.

Games is probably the biggest industry today that has gone really social, right. I mean, the incumbent game companies are really being disrupted and are quickly trying to become social. And you have companies like Zynga.

I'm trying to learn to smoke, which is rather weird when everyone is trying to stop. I'm not a smoker. But my character only smokes as an affectation.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.

Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness.

There's a lot more pressure on me at United. There are people out there trying to shoot you down.

I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.

Are you trying to manipulate me? It's working.

With some other top players I'm part of a company trying to put on events in Europe, especially Germany, but also Poland, Austria, Russia. There's so much talent coming out of the Far East now, and we want the same thing in Europe.

I've never been into what am I going to do next, trying to reinvent myself.

Whenever I do a book, I'm usually guided by a question or something that I'm trying to tease out.