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Trying Quotes

Sometimes the effort matters more than the outcome.

This collection finds humor and sincerity in the act of trying - baseball becoming enjoyable again only after quitting the attempt to play it, and a small reading ritual used to get through a demanding project. Related reading in I Am Quotes.

I'm trying to interpret the film through the director's head, but it all comes out through me. So, a composer is kind of like a psychic medium.

Quotes by Danny Elfman

I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day, I find it terribly easy. And so, rather than trying to hunt up a text, I...

Quotes by Daniel Pinkwater

I will be happier if I crash by trying than not trying and running around behind the same guy for 70 laps.

Quotes by Daniel Ricciardo

Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it.

Quotes by Daniel Schorr

Information overload refers to the notion that we're trying to take in more than the brain can handle.

Quotes by Daniel Levitin

The foreign press seems obsessed with the Freedom Tower, as if it was the only thing going on here. In fact, we're trying to keep a huge juggling act in balance, with the tower as just one of the many...

Quotes by Daniel Libeskind

The people who work at FDA are just trying to do their jobs.

Quotes by Daniel Lubetzky

Google views Facebook as a threat to its business and has been trying to launch a social-networking service to compete with it.

Quotes by Daniel Lyons

The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you...

Quotes by Daniel Mallory Ortberg

I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture. I'm trying to get my right-brain muscles into shape. I actually think this shift toward right-brain abilities has the potential to make us...

Quotes by Daniel H. Pink

I think books that are meant to be read in the nighttime ought to confront the very fears that we're trying to think about.

Quotes by Daniel Handler

I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.

Quotes by Daniel Craig

I'm not trying to be macho, I promise you.

Quotes by Daniel Craig

Well, I've been in several films including documentaries, but the big blockbuster, I was hired as advisor to the actors, I was trying to make Jesuits out of them.

Quotes by Daniel Berrigan

I want to have a catalogue or a share in a company. I’m trying to take my family’s name from lower-middle class to aristocracy. I have my sights set high.

Quotes by Daniel Caesar

I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.

Quotes by Daniel Clowes

There's only so many things you can do with fights, so I'm always trying to shake it up and find something different, new, exciting and fun.

Quotes by Dana White

When I was growing up, I was running around; I was a little tomboy. So I was just running around trying to be an athlete and trying to reenact things from TV, but I wasn't really into reading comic books...

Quotes by Dania Ramirez

In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.

Quotes by Danica Patrick

I personally have a pretty open philosophy about trying to talk to the press, and so does Dan Bartlett.

Quotes by Dana Perino

Frequently Asked Questions

What different situations involve 'trying' in these quotes?
They range from quitting the attempt to play a sport, to trying to make a film while reading Jane Austen on breaks, to trying to comply with tax obligations, to always trying to find creative inspiration.
Is there a quote about giving up trying to play a sport?
Yes. One speaker jokes that "Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it," suggesting a career benefited more from stepping back than continuing to play. For more first-person humor, see Me quotes.
Is there a quote about reading during a break from filming?
Yes - one speaker recalls trying to make 'Metropolitan' and reading "a page of two of Jane Austen as a palate-cleanser" during breaks. Browse Like quotes for more personal anecdotes.
Is there a quote about trying to comply with taxes?
Yes. One speaker says, "I've always been paying my taxes and I've always been trying to comply," describing an ongoing effort to stay compliant. For more on consistent effort, see Always quotes.
Is there a quote about trying to find creative inspiration?
Yes - one speaker says they're "always looking at other artists and trying to get inspired by different things." For more first-person creative reflections, see I Am quotes.

Other lines cover the ongoing effort to stay compliant with obligations and to keep finding fresh inspiration from other artists. Continue with Always Quotes or Me Quotes.