Trying Quotes

To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.

I was trying to perform as best as possible. I was a boy at the time, but worked well with the sickle.

Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.

Be talented enough to make it and stupid enough to keep trying.

I'm attracted to things that are in direct opposition to something that I've just done. It's not like I'm trying to make the right chess move. It's more just that personal thing where you get connected to something for so long and then you want to do something that's in opposition to that.

Oh, I think, watching Magic, him being one of my... I'm one of his biggest fans, and just trying to emulate what he did, going out on the playground, and also playing with older guys.

I took a workshop from him a few months after that. That experience changed my whole approach to photography. At that workshop in Yosemite in 1973 I decided I wanted to try and see if I could pursue this for myself, and I'm still trying.

I enjoy popping in to World Duty Free at the airport and trying out perfumes - I can never resist a new scent.

The shock of the way I mix patterns and fabrics can be disconcerting, but what I am trying to do is provoke new ideas about how pieces can be put together in different ways. I think this is a more modern way to wear clothes that in themselves are fairly classic.

As leader of the effort of the Iraqi Survey Group, I spent most of my days not out in the field leading inspections. It's typically what you do at that level. I was trying to motivate, direct, find strategies.

The world record will come to me when I run the world record race. I'm just trying to perfect my race. I'm looking for perfection.

I can't find my car keys in the morning. Trying to get out of my house is a nightmare. "Where's my wallet? Where are my keys? I have to go find a missing person."

I'm just trying to keep my mind and my body active. The tough part about it is that physically I'm sort of limited.

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.

And while I might not always agree with the viewpoint I have to portray, because I play a district attorney, as an actress I can always tell myself that my character is trying to take the moral high ground.

Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen.

I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African.

You can't say that being a fan is more serious, because players are trying to do better in order to get paid better.

Our party cannot be all things to all people. It can't be. Our loudest opponents on the left are never going to like us so let's stop trying to curry favor with them.

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.

I see myself as a flashlight in the dark. I'm not trying to be overlooked anymore.

Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.

Leave the President's family business to him. You will have plenty to do without trying to manage the First Family. They are likely to do fine without your help.

A movie star is someone people look at and go, 'I want to be like that person'. There's the responsibility of desire. It's not something I'm interested in trying. I would fail miserably at it, so why even bother?

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

I like to be able to control which players I'm working with. Because it doesn't matter how good a coach you are if the guys you're working with think they already know it all. You need a response, you need to feel they're trying. I want players who are always striving to improve.

Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way.

The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.

I'm not as far along as Jack Nicklaus was at this age, but I'm trying.

All through my comics career, I was always trying to reinvent the form.