Trying Quotes - Page 112

Our enemy, the devil, wants to control us, and his target is our will. The main way he tries to influence our will is through lying to us.

Part of the challenge of Most Wanted is trying to become the most notorious street racer on the pavement.

The worst thing you can do is to try to cling to something that's gone, or to recreate it.

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

Sometimes I get so bold and I'm so confident about what I'm doing that I actually try to be more of a dork because it's a really liberating feeling to experience what it's like to not care.

If they played more blues, people would just get it - they try to hold it back but just about can't hold it back now because the blues is really going.

Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field.

What I do on my solo stuff is just the most natural version of who I am, and I’m trying to represent the feelings that I’m feeling as purely as possible

The reason I play so many sounds, maybe it sounds angry, is because I'm trying so many things at one time, you see? I haven't sorted them out. I have a whole bag of things that I'm trying to work through and get the one essential.

Right now I'm trying to figure out what I'm gonna do, 'cause I don't want to sit around on my backside all day. If I'm gonna do that I'll be a newspaper reporter.

Don't try to describe the ocean if you've never seen it.

You know, I try not to look back, because looking forward is so much better than looking backward.

They were things for which it was impossible to prepare but which one spent a lifetime looking back at, trying to accept, interpret, comprehend. Things that should never have happened, that seemed out of place and wrong, these were what prevailed, what endured, in the end.

Speculation is a hard and trying business, and a speculator must be on the job all the time or he'll soon have no job to be on.

I don't know why, it's the same reason why you like some music and you don't like others. There's something about it that you like. Ultimately I don't find it's in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it's fundamentally emotional.

When I’m on the court, I try to play with all my emotion and heart.

My 'Movember' moustache was never going to be as big as Nigel Mansell's, but I tried my best. The amazing thing is that when you try to grow a moustache, you notice everyone else's. There are some amazing moustaches on the grid.

At a young age I always had an entrepreneurial spirit. So I'm trying to develop things on my own, too, and there are a couple things that have absolutely nothing to do with the entertainment business that I'm trying to tackle. We'll just sort of see.

Every day I wake up and I really try to pinch myself to take advantage of today and to use that freedom of gesture to do what I really like to do.

Governors have to balance budgets. And they have to make decisions. And they have to do things that sometimes aren't popular. And they also have to bring people together to try to solve problems.

Film is like a personal diary, a notebook or a monologue by someone who tries to justify himself before a camera.

Try to spend a few moments each day holding a picture of your body and your mind in a state of splendid health.

I know it's important to do more than just complain when there's something you don't like. You need to try to do something about it, or you're nothing but a whiner.

All companies would be better off if they stopped trying to be amazing and just focused on being useful.

Try to save something while your salary is small; it's impossible to save after you begin to earn more.