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What is God trying to tell me? ... I'm just so tired. Why are people sabotaging me? Why, when I try to do something right, do people get angry? — Spencer Haywood

It rankles me when somebody tries to force somebody to do something. — John Wayne

I do not want to say I'm a product designer. I've been trying all my life to not be categorized, to learn something and then to forget about it. — Milton Glaser

If she means something to you, you gotta do the woo, son. You can't just be trying to stick it in. — Kylie Scott

To do something well is so worthwhile, that to die trying to do it better cannot be foolhardy — Bruce McLaren

I wish to begin again on a daily basis. To be born again every day is something that I try to do. And I'm deadly serious about that. — Bono

Do not be afraid to try something new. The cost of playing it safe all the time could far exceed the cost of daring to change. — Linda El Awar

There's a lot of ways to be honest that don't necessarily involve absolute facts being true. I think that's something I absolutely try to do. — Craig Finn

I do like match play. I like trying to match an opponent shot for shot. It's a challenge. And it's something different. — Retief Goosen

How do you create a film that can reach millions of people and engage them in the subject? You have to take risks and try something new. — Sam Branson

Do something you're very passionate about, and don't try to chase what is kind of the "hot passion" of the day. — Jeff Bezos

Just trying to do something - just being there, showing up - is how we get braver. Self-esteem is about doing. — Joy Browne

Most of the times, aggression will drive your enemy to do something that you are trying to prevent. — Paulo Coelho

Fame is something I think happens as a result of trying to do good work. If you're trying to be famous, your work usually suffers. — Justin Theroux

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

Well it used to be about trying to do something, now it is about trying to be someone — Margaret Thatcher

We sit here on the oasis of human consciousness and the verbal plane trying to talk about something that we just have to go and see and do and feel. — Frederick Lenz

If you want to do something, try it! The worst anyone you ask for help can do is say no. — Anne Beatts

When you are trying to do something when you are getting started and you are trying to make records for the first time, you want it to be the best. — Freddie Hubbard

I saw a great bumper sticker that read: 'Do something that scares you every day.' That really stuck with me. I try to live like that. — Janice Tanton

I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind. — Brian Eno

I'm constantly trying to find something that's different from me, whereas some actors do the same thing, again and again. That's not for me. — Aaron Johnson

Sometimes there's a general arc that you want to try and get better the longer you do something. — Colin Hay

I changed jobs like I changed shirts. It was something I just like to do - I like trying my hand at everything. — Evangeline Lilly

As an artist, you're always trying to reach a new height, do something new, try something you haven't done before, and push your boundaries. — Eric Balfour

To try to do something which is inherently impossible is always a corrupting enterprise. — Michael Joseph Oakeshott

When I tried to do something else, everyone behaved as if I was Gypsy Rose Lee trying to paint a Matisse. — Zoe Heller

I love to write. But it has never gotten any easier to do and you can't expect it to if you keep trying for something better than you can do. — Ernest Hemingway,

Why should we change onstage? We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing what we do, we'd like to keep it that way. — Cliff Burton

When you are trying to do something very innovative and revolutionary, you must also open yourself to a lot of questions. — Sharad Vivek Sagar

There's no end to the absurd things people will do trying to make life mean something. — William Wharton

Let's make really good stories that people get something out of. That's the one common denominator with everything I try to do. — Frank Spotnitz

Every time I do something for you, I'm trying to demonstrate the words I cannot say. — Sylvain Reynard

There is an immense difference between training to do something and trying to do something. — John Ortberg

When you don't know what to do, try something; if that doesn't work, try something else. — Richard Russo

People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do. — E.W. Howe

Other times I say: I would very much like to try to do something with this music, but after playing for a few minutes, I have to break off. — Jan Garbarek

I'm trying to do something that I have kind've a clue how to do. — Art Smith

Anyone that's trying to do something to improve sound ... that's all good. — Dr. Dre

If my mind's not trying to fix something or create something, I don't know what to do. It just throws me off. — Will.i.am

But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different. — Erykah Badu

Lila shook her head skeptically. She was trying to understand, we were both trying to understand, and understanding was something that we loved to do. — Elena Ferrante

In the end I didn't know who I was crying for, but it was something my body wanted to do, as though trying to digest grief. — Simon Van Booy

And last, it may be worthwhile trying to hang something beyond the partial wall because some of the pictures do very well in a confined space. — Mark Rothko

Do not blame a person for drinking lest he is trying to forget something more serious than drinking. — Kahlil Gibran

When I'm trying a new form- trying to do something I'm not used to doing, which was true of the novel. — Lydia Davis

I got a theory a person ought to do everything it's possible to do before he dies, and maybe die trying to do something that's really impossible. — Patricia Highsmith

What I try to do is a good bad picture. I work it out very carefully, and then I do something that looks as if it went wrong. — Helmut Newton

Do not try to reach the masses! If you say something good and right, masses will reach you! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It's like ... I can throw away my whole life trying to help somebody else, but i can only do something for me if I know it doesn't matter. — Dan Wells

My point is, there's no sense trying to squeeze something out of your swing if you can let your clubs do the shotmaking for you. — Lee Trevino

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. — Robert A. Heinlein

When I'm making stuff, the thing that excites me most is not the result, but the process and trying to do something I've never done before. — Spike Jonze

Kids do not appreciate subtlety in adults when they are trying to understand something. — Stan Morris

Have a dream. Fight to do a dream. Don't ask if it is possible to do something or if not possible. Try to do it! — Alejandro Jodorowsky

I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out. — Geddy Lee

The best thing to do is try and make sure you're getting something at your end. We had stretches where we didn't get that. — Bo Ryan

I enjoy changing; I think it's more fun to try something different than to just do what you did last time. — Mat Kearney

Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence. Faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences. — Sherwood Eddy

We're trying to do something so that when the average person uses Pinterest, it has to make the service better. — Ben Silbermann

I think that's what Dylan's trying to do: to create a space artistically where something else can take shape, can take life - where there's hope. — Sean Wilentz

People hurt each other. That's how it works. At least you were trying to do something good. Not everyone can say that much. — Tana French

Try to live without something digital - without digital code for about two hours, very hard to do if you're awake. — Juan Enriquez

If I didn't feel that I was doing something or trying to do something for others, then I would have very little excuse for the life that I lead. — William T. Vollmann

What on earth were you trying to do, make yourself look handsome or something? You look like someone's grandmother gone wrong! — Roald Dahl

I had something nobody else could do - I sang in a way that separated me - and, when you're trying to get noticed, you play your trump card. — Billy Porter

If you have your wife, and you are proud of something she's done, wouldn't you go and support her in something? That is what I was trying to do. — Gisele Bundchen

You try to make your team do something they're not capable of and you get murdered. — Bear Bryant

Life is so short. Why waste a single day of it doing something that doesn't matter, that doesn't try to do something big? — Dean Kamen

I try to shrug it off as a minor annoyance that whenever I do something successful, every capitalist out there wants a piece of the action. — Mark Zuckerberg

It's not very smart to keep trying to do something you can't do and never will be able to do. — Steve Brown

Every year I try to pitch a show, and I try to do something outside of YouTube, and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. — Shane Dawson

Whenever I do a book, I'm usually guided by a question or something that I'm trying to tease out. — Lynda Barry

I'm always trying to do something different and trying to keep myself amused. — T.C. Boyle

For me, self-gratification eventually took a backseat to trying to do something collaborative with other people, to trying to make something new. — Ariel Pink

Prayer is not trying to twist God's arm to make Him do something. Prayer is receiving by faith what He has already done! — Andrew Wommack

If you're trying to do something different, you can't ask someone to help, because they'll want to make it not different. — Josh Homme

Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much. — John Ortberg

Every time I go out and do something, Hans panics and starts trying to beat me. He's like a dog humping your leg. — Dean Potter

I was trying to do something that seemed very natural and easy but which bridged that gulf between the singing voice and the speaking voice. — Carlisle Floyd

All I try to do in the press is to be honest about something that I really care about. — Kristen Stewart

It comes down to finding something you love to do and then just trying to be great at it — Mark Cuban

The only people who try to tell you that you can't do something, are the people who have failed — Chris Jericho

I've always tried to work hard. I'm not trying to show anybody up or do something spectacular for attention. — Roy Halladay

If you're not trying to do something better, then you're not focused on the customer and you'll miss the possibility of making your business great. — Jonathan Ive

I just felt like I can try to do something special. — Chad Le Clos

I don't really do without any plans. If somebody is trying to do something, you must have plans. — Jahangir Khan

Trying to think about the rest of the team over myself or my scoring is something that I never really had to do before. — J. R. Smith

In the beginning of rock n' roll, there was always innovation. Artists were always trying to do something new and something different. — Phil Everly

It used to be about trying to do something. Now it's about trying to be someone. — Margaret Thatcher

I'm not trying to do something different, I'm trying to do the same thing but in a different way — Vivienne Westwood

No matter what you do, if you're trying to create something new, your environment has a massive impact on you. — Alex Kapranos

You live in the city and all the time there are signs telling you what to do and billboards trying to sell you something. — Banksy

They always said on TV you could do anything you wanted, but here I was trying to do something and it wasn't working. I would never be able to do it. — Ned Vizzini

What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well. — Malorie Blackman

I would never tell myself, you have to write 20 pages today or something. But I do try to show up. Read what I wrote, fix things. — Celeste Ng

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. — Will Rogers

You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for. — Jane Fonda

I'm in the process of trying to find something that I could do on my own. — Loretta Devine

When you try to do something you've never done before, you risk falling on your face. — Ellen Taaffe Zwilich