“That $27,000 that a young player will now get just for making the main draw at the Australian Open is huge. It can set them up for a couple of months which at that level you really do need that kind of help. It sounds like a lot of money, but when you're travelling the world trying to make it as a tennis player, it doesn't last long.” WorldNeedsTryingKindLongHelpingLastsYoungSoundLevelsPlayerHugeMonthsCoupleDrawsTennisLots Of MoneyAustralianTravel The WorldTennis Player Author:Samantha Stosur
“Back when I was in theater school, trying to figure out what I was going to do with my life, 'Sweeney Todd' was a huge touchstone for me, my favorite musical for sure.” TryingSchoolFiguresHugeTheaterMusicalMy FavoriteBack WhenTouchstonesSweeneySweeney Todd Author:Eric McCormack
“Grandchildren have taught me how important the future is. I try to look through their eyes and envision what's in their imagination. What's the world going to look like when they're my age? That really does take a huge imagination.” WorldTryingLooksDoeImportantEyeAgeImaginationTaughtHugeGrandchildren Author:Richard Lugar
“Imaginary testing is unreliable, and in many cases, it's a huge waste of time and energy. In truth you just don't know what will happen until you try. You may start a business, and it could take off in ways no one could predict. Or it could be a complete failure. You could ask for a date and end up with the partner of your dreams. Or you could be rejected cold. It's great to visualize what you want, but you never really know what's going to happen until you act.” KnowsWayWantTryingMayEndsDreamHappensActionAsksEnergyCasesHugeColdWasteWhat You WantPartnersYour DreamsWasting TimeImaginaryRejectedTestingTime And EnergyUnreliable Author:Steve Pavlina
“By trying to control everything we become very neurotic, more and more desperate. It's a huge tragic thing.” TryingHugeDesperateTragicNeurotic Author:Charlotte Rampling
“If you trust in Nature, in the small Things that hardly anyone sees and that can so suddenly become huge, immeasurable; if you have this love for what is humble and try very simply, as someone who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor, then everything will become easier for you.” IfsTryingSeemsWinningPoorHugeEasierHumbleSmall Things Book:Letters to a Young Poet Source: Letters to a Young Poet
“On the one hand, you have these huge budget films that cost millions of dollars. They are effects driven, they don't have well known actors in them, and they are making money. Well, some of them are. One the other hand, you have Stallone and Statham, and guys like DeNiro and Pacino, and Costner, who are all trying to make movies about real people. They are interested in character driven projects.” PeopleTryingWellsRealCharacterHandsFilmGuyActorsKnownMillionsEffectsHugeCostProjectsDollarsDrivenMaking MoneyBudgetsWell Known Author:Dolph Lundgren
“I'm trying to separate myself from other people by having songs that would be considered - technically - original things. I don't seek out mashups. I'm associated with the whole mashup movement, and it's too bad because I'm not a huge fan of them.” PeopleTryingWholeWould BeSongFansMovementHugeOriginalsMashups Author:Girl Talk
“When I started, the scripts weren't as good, and you'd have to have a huge burst of energy to go, "Sheesh, how am I going to? This stuff's no good." So you'd have to improvise something or create something or try to work with the ware and try to figure out, how do you make this visually and orally acceptable, entertaining? Nowadays, the scripts are just so much better, that you don't have to feel that way. You feel like the script's coming to you, you can just relax. You don't have to drive the boat.” WayFeelsTryingEnergyStuffFiguresHugeScriptsBoatRelaxAcceptableEntertaining Author:Bill Murray
“I get the greatest joy from just doing anything, being an actor. Doing music, and doing what I love to do. I don't make a huge distinction between comedy and drama. I think the whole point is just trying to be as honest, from moment to moment, as you can be. If you're honest about the material, and the material is ridiculous, then you're in a comedy.” IfsThinkingTryingWholeMomentsJoyActorsComedyHonestMaterialsHugeDramaRidiculousDistinction Author:John C. Reilly
“(UGO, about Crank) I see the addiction to video games because you want to win them and it's just hard enough so you'd want to keep playing it over and over to try to figure it out. I definitely feel the movie is like a game at times but I'm not a huge videogame lover.” WantFeelsTryingHardEnoughGamesWinningFiguresHugeLoversAddictionVideoCrankVideogame Author:Amy Smart
“My faith in God is a huge part of my life, and yeah He has blessed me with an amazing family, and group of friends. In the Bible he tells us to think positively about ourselves, to not be down on ourselves. So I just try to live the way He wants me to, and make the best decisions I can.” ThinkingWayWantTryingI CanDecisionGroupsHugeYeahBlessedWant MeFaith In GodPositivelyThink PositivelyGroup Of FriendsHe Wants MeAmazing Family Author:Bethany Hamilton
“There's going to be a lot of people that don't like you, and there's nothing you can do about it. Instead of trying to win them over one by one, you need to do things that are getting huge swaths of votes [in the elections].” PeopleNeedsTryingWinningCan DoHugeLike YouVoteElection Author:Michael Schur
“I was a grunt, walking around in the jungle of Vietnam, trying not to find the enemy. Because I am so big, they were going to give me either a heavy radio or a huge machine gun to carry. I carried a radio.” GivingTryingBigsEnemyHugeWalkingGunMachinesGive MeRadioHeavyVietnamJungleMachine GunsGrunt Author:Bob Gunton
“A dirty player is somebody who ultimately is trying to hurt somebody. There's a huge difference. There's no gray in that. Like, you have no conscience, no nothing, no guilt. I don't have that mean streak in me. I don't play angry. It's not anger.” TryingMeanPlayDifferencesHurtPlayerHugeLike YouConscienceAngryGuiltDirtyGrayStreaks Author:Ndamukong Suh
“[On the British Museum:] It was manifestly impossible to read all the books in that huge, gloomy structure, but I made a good try and accumulated a fund of useless information guaranteed to cast a pall over any dinner table.” TryingMadeBookImpossibleInformationHugeConversationTablesStructureCastsDinnerBritishUselessFundMuseumsGloomyDinner TableBritish MuseumUseless Information Book:I married the world Source: I married the world
“I like to laze around. I think that's a huge part of creativity. You have to let your mind relax and then another part of your brain suddenly connects with the solution you're trying to find.” ThinkingTryingMindBrainCreativityHugeSolutionsRelax Author:David Cronenberg
“Im a huge fan of The Odd Couple, yes, and any comparisons to Tony Randall and or Jack Lemmon are completely welcome. I kind of try to channel those guys, and then add my own neuroses, too.” TryingKindGuyMy OwnFansHugeCoupleAddWelcomeOddComparisonNeurosisOdd Couple Author:David Alan Basche
“I stopped eating beef in high school, and in college I stopped eating poultry. I am not a huge fan of factory farming and what we're doing to animals. I try to eat as clean as possible because I want to know what I'm putting into my body.” KnowsWantTryingBodySchoolAnimalFansCollegeHugeEatingHigh SchoolCleanFactoriesFarmingBeefFactory FarmingPoultry Author:Susanna Thompson
“While I pride myself on trying to be creative in all areas of my life, I have occasionally gone overboard, like the time I decided to bring to a party a salad that I constructed, on a huge rattan platter, to look like a miniature scale model of the Gardens of Babylon.” TryingLooksPartyGoneCreativeHugePrideModelsAreasGardenDecidedScalesBe CreativeSaladMiniaturesOverboardBabylon Author:Gregory Maguire
“I don't like trying to influence politicians, who are themselves representative of huge numbers of people. As an educator, I'd rather enlighten the people and educate the people and let they be the ones who put the pressure on their elected officials.” PeopleTryingNumbersInfluenceHugePoliticianPressureOfficialsEducateRepresentativesEnlighteningEducatorElected OfficialsHuge Numbers Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“I took guitar a while back, and my heart wasn't in it at the time, but I'm ready to try it again. I sing in the car, at home - it's a huge part of my life, especially since I'm from Tennessee.” TryingHeartHomeCarReadyHugeMy HeartGuitarTennessee Author:Lucy Hale
“It was like the part of me that had enjoyed those friends had evaporated, leaving behind a huge, echoing emptiness, and I was scrabbling on the edge of it, trying not to fall into the hole within myself because I was terrified to find out how far down it went.” TryingFallBehindsHugeLeavingEdgesHolesEnjoyedEmptinessTerrified Author:Robyn
“Providence has a wild, rough, incalculable road to its end, and it is of no use to try to whitewash its huge, mixed instrumentalities, or to dress up that terrific benefactor in a clean shirt and white neckcloth of a student in divinity.” TryingEndsUseWhiteStudentsHugeDressesCleanShirtsDivinityRoughProvidenceTerrificBenefactors Book:The Annotated Emerson Source: The Annotated Emerson
“I gotta tell you, I do not envy whoever they try to put in David Letterman's chair. Folks those are some huge shoes to fill, and some really big pants.” TryingBigsLeadershipWorkComedyGenerationsHugeShoesFolksEnvyChairsPantsLetterman Author:Stephen Colbert
“Contrary to popular belief, the Loch Ness Monster is not a dinosaur -- it's a huge mutant duck, a top researcher claims.... Most mainstream Nessie researchers consider Gluber's duck theory to be horse feathers and are trying to blast it out of the water.” TryingBeliefWaterTheoryHugeClaimsHorseContraryMonstersDucksMainstreamFeathersBlastDinosaursResearchersMutantsContrary To Popular BeliefLoch Ness Monster Author:Murphy J. Foster, Jr.
“The music world has taken a huge dump, so maybe there's a connection. So if Apple decided to do this, maybe they do their own version ... whatever they want to do it's a home run for music. Unless they screw it up, and try to put something on it so that they can own it - I'm calling it out, proprietary formats are not a good thing.” IfsWorldWantTryingHomeRunningMusicTakenHugeCallingConnectionsDecidedGood ThingsVersionsApplesScrewsFormatDumpHome Run Author:Neil Young
“People in Detroit aren't just urban gardening. They're starting a new mode of education. They're trying to give children the education to be "solutionaries" rather than people who are going to get jobs in the system. And that is a huge change, a cultural revolution.” PeopleGivingTryingChildrenJobsHugeRevolutionStartingGardeningUrbanDetroitHuge Changes Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“I never considered myself an Americana artist, but I'm a huge fan of old-time music from the States, the recordings that were made in the '20s and '30s. Trying to chase down the exact stylistic trappings of that stuff always felt like a dead end. That spirit of directness and economy, but also the poetic pungency of the writing and almost ugly, or raw, performance - all that seemed like the real message. I've just tried to somehow stay true to that feeling.” WritingTryingMadeRealEndsStatesFeelingsSpiritArtistFeltStuffEconomyFansHugeMessagesPerformancesUglyPoeticStay TrueDead EndsOld TimeAmericanaOld Time Music Author:Will Sheff
“My actual beauty routine is pretty simple, I try and have a facial once in a while. I'm not a huge products girl. I have so much going on with work and kids, I just use moisturiser basically.” TryingUseKidsGirlSimpleProductsHugeRoutineFacial Author:Gwyneth Paltrow
“We are a time-starved people, obsessed with fitting huge achievements into our few years. In the process, we often fill our buckets with things that don't matter or work. But when we give up on trying to change what can't be changed, and simply embrace what we love, a miracle occurs. We notice that the moment to be happy has already arrived. It's here, now.” PeopleGivingTryingYearsMatterMomentsProcessChangedHugeGiving UpAchievementMiracleEmbraceObsessedFittingBucketsTrying To Change Author:Martha Beck
“At River Belle we don't just listen to our customers, we also try to anticipate their demands and be the first to market with the features that become industry standards. This extended variety of games is a huge step toward creating a one-stop gaming experience that makes a world of difference for our players.” WorldTryingFirstsGamesDifferencesStepsPlayerHugeIndustryDemandCreatingStandardsRiversCustomersVarietyFeaturesBellsAnticipateJust ListenGamingBelle Author:Tim Johnson
“I think that when you create something or at least try to create something, you slither between excitement and pleasure and you understand this huge emotional frustration. You did one feat, then you go back one.” ThinkingTryingPleasureEmotionalHugeExcitementFrustrationFeats Author:Audrey Tautou
“Writers block: when I get it, it's because my subconscious spotted that I'd make a huge structural mistake in constructing a novel before my conscious mind became aware of it, and threw on the brakes. So I've learned not to sweat it: take two days off, then back up a chapter, read through, and try to work out why I'm suddenly uneasy about continuing.” TryingMindTwoMistakeNovelHugeConsciousWork OutBlockI've LearnedSweatChaptersContinuingSubconsciousTwo DaysUneasyWriter's BlockDays OffBrakeConscious Mind Author:Charles Stross
“I am very blessed to have a great group of long-term friends and a huge family that has been very loving and supportive. I try to stay connected to that and contribute as much as I can.” TryingLongHas BeensI CanTermGroupsHugeBlessedConnectedLong TermSupportive Author:Jim James
“From a personal perspective, because I'm on a watchlist and went through years of trying to find out why, of having the government refuse to confirm or deny the very existence of such a list, it's so meaningful to have its existence brought into the open so that the public knows there is a watchlist, and so that the courts can now address the legality of it. I mean, the person who revealed this has done a huge public service and I'm personally thankful.” KnowsTryingYearsMeanPersonsDoneGovernmentExistenceHugePerspectiveCourtRefuseDenyListsMeaningfulAddressesPublic ServiceThrough The YearsLegality Author:Laura Poitras
“I've worked with a lot great directors who have huge resumes, but I'm really trying to be active in my career in supporting the new generation of cinema. I like taking some time to try to support and be a part of that.” TryingCareersSupportGenerationsHugeDirectorsActiveCinemaNew GenerationResumes Author:Michael Pitt
“Independent film is such a huge deal in the UK. There aren't many big budget studio movies that get greenlit at all. The indie film industy is a great opportunity that I'm trying to seize.” TryingBigsFilmOpportunityDealsHugeIndependentStudiosBudgetsGreat OpportunityIndependent FilmIndie Films Author:Aml Ameen
“I certainly wouldn't go back and blame feminism, because all that feminism was really trying to do, which was huge, was to create a new set of expectations, a new set of opportunities for women, and they did.” TryingOpportunityFeminismHugeExpectationsBlame Author:Debora Spar
“I think I'm better than Jake (Shields), I think I should be fighting for the title, but I've been given a huge opportunity here to fight B.J. Penn and that's a big fight, belt or no belt. We're in a sport of selling fights right now, and the sport's growing, we're trying to get international, trying to get into every country, every household, and part of that is ticket sales is the idea that Jake Shields is coming over from Strikeforce with two belts. I understand that, it's a business decision.” ThinkingShouldTryingTwoIdeasCountryBigsFightingOpportunityGivenSportsDecisionGrowingHugeRight NowInternationalSellingTitlesHouseholdTicketsBeltsShieldsJakeBusiness Decisions Author:Jon Fitch
“Mothers have the huge influence, and I feel like they're always teaching us from the day we're born what to be afraid of, what to be cautious of, what we should like and what we should look like. Then we spend half of our life trying to be not like them, and then we reach another part of our lives where we see these things we can't get rid of.” FeelsShouldTryingLooksMotherBornHalfOur LivesInfluenceTeachingHugeCautiousBe Cautious Author:Amy Tan
“I identified myself through football so when Jason Peter the football player no longer existed, Jason Peter the person was gone as well. Such a huge part of my struggle in life was finding a purpose, trying to find something else that I could be great at.” TryingWellsPersonsPurposeStruggleGonePlayerFootballHugeFindingsPeterJasonFootball PlayerLife StruggleMy Struggle Author:Jason Peter
“We can make a huge impact. We can be that difference maker just because of our status and because of what we do. I would advise all professional athletes to get involved and to try to help make a difference. If we don't, who else will?” IfsTryingHelpingDifferencesHugeInvolvedImpactAthleteMaking A DifferenceMakersAdviseGet InvolvedProfessional AthleteDifference Makers Author:Davone Bess
“I play hard and aggressive. I don't lay out the huge body checks because it's not really the style I play. But I love to be around the net and love battling corners and trying to dish pucks out.” TryingHardPlayBodyStyleHugeAnd LoveLaysCornersChecksAggressiveDishesPuckPlay Hard Author:Eric Staal
“Oh, and one more thing: If I try something that I've never done before, something that's particularly difficult for me, and it doesn't work out, that doesn't make it a failure. The fact that I actually succeeded in finishing it makes it a huge success. Think of all the people who never even try.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingDoneFactsDifficultHugeWork OutFinishingFinishing It Author:SebastiAn
“Of course, we're so lucky to be in a time where that's not our reality anymore. I just thought it was very interesting to go back to that time now, and to look at all of these issues that are still relevant today, but just in such a different way, and to see how we approach them and try to overcome them. Yeah, we've come a long way with medicine and women's health in the Western world, but in a lot of parts of the rest of the world, that's still a huge issue.” WorldWayTryingLooksLongStillsDifferentRealityTodayCoursesInterestingIssuesHugeLuckyApproachOvercomingYeahMedicineWesternDifferent WaysRelevantLong WayVery InterestingWestern WorldSo LuckyWomen's Health Author:Eve Hewson
“Imagine you have six loans, small to huge. People want to close loans and because of that, they try to pay off the small loans, but that's not the right strategy. The right strategy, of course, is to pay the loan with the highest interest rate. People make this mistake and it costs them lots and lots of money, it's a very expensive mistake because interest rates accumulate and become very, very expensive very quickly.” PeopleWantTryingCoursesInterestPayMistakeImagineHugeCostSixHighestStrategyRateExpensiveLots Of MoneyLoanInterest Rate Author:Dan Ariely
“We haven't really changed, we've just gotten better at executing what we've always been trying to do. We're not really a band that has undergone huge stylistic decisions to change, we're just trying to follow the song. More and more, we let the song lead us - we don't try and put the song into a structure of our taste or our fashion.” TryingSongDecisionFashionHavensChangedHugeTasteBandStructureExecuting Author:Torquil Campbell
“When you're going with a huge dramatic disaster film, try to keep the narrative as simple as possible.” TryingFilmSimpleHugeDisasterNarrativeDramatic Author:Jeremy Bolt
“Most of the time after the US Open, it is kind of like you are trying to finish strong. But to do it five years and maybe six is something that has never been done before, so it is a huge challenge.” TryingYearsKindDoneStrongChallengesFiveHugeLike YouSixFive YearsFinish Strong Author:Pete Sampras