Trying Quotes

Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.

Now that I'm on top, everyone wants to bring me down. Everyone's trying to tug at me and take my spot.

Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.

I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor.

I know I probably offend some people. I have been talking a little too much so I'm trying not to talk as much.

We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.

I've just grown a little disappointed with 'Muppets in the Old West', 'Muppets Under Water' and all these weird concept movies. I just want to go take it back to the early 80's, when it was about the Muppets trying to put on a show. That's what I'm trying to bring back.

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.

Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play.

What makes a person sexy is when he's not trying to be sexy.

For me, until I know that the audience really gets what I'm trying to communicate I'm not done.

From the time I could play the piano, I remember trying to write tunes. They were in my head, and I would just sit down and start noodling. Next thing I knew, I had written a melody.

People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.

What about the accusation that Hollywood is trying to advance its liberal agenda? Well, the fact is, while the creative community admittedly leans left, Hollywood has become a corporate town.

You know how macho boys get when they're all together? Well, the set of 'Desperado' was like that. They were all trying to put me down, saying, 'Bring on the stuntwoman, Salma can't do that.' But I did everything.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

The reason I keep making movies is I hate the last thing I did. I'm trying to rectify my wrongs.

They wanted to jump on their own bandwagon. Bobby Charlton had never made it as a manager. Bobby Moore hadn't either. I think they never stopped trying to put me in the same category. That was the road they went down with me.

I have so many things to work on, and so many ways that I fail. But that's what grace is all about. and I constantly wake up every morning trying to get better, trying to improve, trying to walk closer to God.

I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of serum using large animals.

Labels don't mean anything to me. I'm trying to play as passionately as I'm able to. If they want to call that cool, that's fine. Just spell the name right, is the formula.

The hardest situation to stay happy in, I think, is when you're trying to find love, and yourself at the same time. It just doesn't seem to fit well.

When I've done gymnastics, ballet or soccer - I was always trying to be the best. I'm really driven. Really driven.

I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images.

I've been trying to get cast as a lesbian for years.

I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear is one of my greatest assets.

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.

Focused. I'm a hustler. And my hustle is trying to figure out the best ways to do what I like without having to do much else.

Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I'm talking to people. It doesn't always work, and one shouldn't always try it, but I try and write as if I am talking, and trying to engage the reader in conversation.