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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.

When you're trying to be a parent and a businessperson at the same time, that is the most stressful thing you could do.

Quotes by Kate Spade

What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what...

Quotes by Kate Thompson

I have always been the girl who keeps on trying. I try! I try!

Quotes by Kate Walsh

I was just never discouraged from doing something wacky like trying to be a comedian.

Quotes by Kate McKinnon

I find women as writers and as characters are operating within narrow confines. They inherit a kind of ghetto of the soul. I'm trying to enlarge the spectrum.

Quotes by Kate Braverman

Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.

Quotes by Katarina Johnson-Thompson

Like I said, I'm just trying to continue to improve and get better.

Quotes by Karrie Webb

I'm trying to forget I ever saw 'Episode I,' but Yoda is forever.

Quotes by Kasie Hunt

Club culture is about leaving your cares behind, and I am trying to create that environment.

Quotes by Kaskade

And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.

Quotes by Karlheinz Stockhausen

I love conventional apocalypse movies. In movies, I like to be with the president, or the scientist trying to solve the problem, but that's not the kind of fiction that I like to read.

Quotes by Karen Thompson Walker

I'm just trying to humanise situations and represent voices that aren't being represented.

Quotes by Kano

I ain't here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I'm just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that's the way yall need Jesus.

Quotes by Kanye West

When I was making the 'Fast and Furious' movies, I wasn't trying to make a 'Fast and Furious' movie.

Quotes by Justin Lin

I'm trying to create ballets that I would enjoy seeing.

Quotes by Justin Peck

I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.

Quotes by Justin Timberlake

We're trying to set up a movie for me in the near future. It's going to be similar to the story of how I got discovered. Kinda like my own version of '8 Mile.'

Quotes by Justin Bieber

Everyone knows we take our time. We're really trying to be responsible with ourselves in trying to discover ideas that haven't been discovered before. It's kind of an alchemy, how we experiment.

Quotes by Justin Chancellor

All types of magic performance have a purpose. Even if it's an amateur who's trying out slight of hand on YouTube.

Quotes by Justin Flom

Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.

Quotes by Jupiter Hammon

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.