Quotes about Trying
Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.
I think there are many faces to everyone. I also have my bad sides. Also I think everyone is trying to improve their shortcomings to become more wholesome.
I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor, but as a human being - is a rigour.
When we were trying to come up with a concept for our music video for 'The Stage' we basically run through a lot of different ideas, and ultimately, I sat and studied the lyrics that Matt had written - and they really resonated with me.
We're not just going to take some songs from a focus group in Nashville where people are sitting around in a circle having appointments trying to write catchy songs so they can sell them to a band like us.
It's always an honor when you have people trying to pick your brain and ask your opinions. I like being that. I've always been one of those guys that likes to think.
Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do.
Everything about the Kardashian family's public image centers around shock and dysfunction - the very image the trans people are trying to shed.
Trying to erase 53 years of being a macho aggressive guy to trying to be a woman, and this is greatest challenge of my life.
Hollywood's built on insecurity. People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way.
This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.
When you're trying to accomplish lofty goals, and when you're attacking something of great magnitude, you have to have help.
My sons, Azaan and Zahaan, make for scintillating company; they are both foodies. The three of us love spending time trying out new joints and cuisines.
If I'm trying to please every craze fan, then I can't. Of course, we all want to please the fans.
Just trying not to have a weakness in any part of my game - that's always been the approach in all aspects of my game: when the team needs me to run block, needs me to pass block, whether it comes naturally or not.
In fifth grade, we had to write a story and read it in front of the class. When I read mine out, the class were just belly laughing. And I remember being like, 'This is the coolest!' So I want to dedicate my life to trying to make people laugh. I can't imagine doing anything else.
It's different when you practice, obviously. That's why exhibition games are a chance to see what you're trying to do.
When you work hard anything can happen, and I'm just trying to go into 2019 starting where I left off in 2018.
A fantasy of mine is to do a podcast that's Marcel Marceau and I, and you only hear me laughing at him and trying to figure out what he's doing.
The pressure of trying to survive is so heavy in China.
Our parents are obviously proud, but they're still trying to get used to the fact that we're in a band. I have a feeling my mom would actually like One Direction if I wasn't in it!
All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics.
When I first got to Brooks Brothers, my mom told me she remembered how upsetting it was trying to find professional clothes in the eighties. Suits would either be over-stylized or frumpy, so she said, 'Make sure it's tailored properly.'
I just focus on taking a deep breath, staying calm, and not trying to make the situation bigger than it is.
My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
It's bloody tough, bloody painful, trying to get sober on your own.
As it becomes longer at No. 1, I feel more and more pressure. Everybody is trying to grab every piece of me.
People are trying to grab every part of you, so it's really hard to focus.
I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.
I'm trying to throw more curves because I'm always throwing fastball, slider, fastball, slider.
