“I try to write like the writers I admire - I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and Merle Haggard records, and country music in general is really good at that, the twisted phrase... So Im always looking for that angle in my own work.” WritingTryingCountryFormMy OwnRecordsAdmirePhrasesAngleTwistedRipHaggard Author:Brad Paisley
“I think that this stage in my life is really, for a lot of reasons, pretty incredible. Being a solo artist and trying to take these bold steps on my own.” ThinkingTryingReasonLife IsArtistMy OwnStepsStageIncrediblesSolo Author:Nick Jonas
“I have an overactive brain, and as a result of that, I can really get in my own mind. So I like to try and exercise it to the point of exhaustion.” TryingMindI CanMy OwnResultsBrainExerciseExhaustion Author:Jake Gyllenhaal
“I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.” TryingLittlesUsedMy OwnBreakGrewGrew UpPicksClubsRidiculousFarmsShedLocksGrandparentSpyGrandpa Author:Odette Annable
“Well to be perfectly frank with you I never created art or have done demonstrations for anyone before myself artistically. I always do it to try to push my own envelope to be the best I can be.” TryingWellsArtI CanDoneMy OwnBeing The BestFrankDemonstrationEnvelopes Author:Criss Angel
“If you are someone like Jeff Koons, and you have to work out how to make a big chrome heart or something, then there are lots of people and a big production involved. The money is more natural somehow. For me, I am just on my own in the studio, trying to make things work. One thing is sure: it doesn't make painting any easier.” PeopleIfsTryingHeartBigsNaturalMy OwnOne ThingPaintingInvolvedEasierProductionsWork OutStudiosChrome Author:Peter Doig
“When I first was trying to play the clubs around Houston to start playing my own songs, songwriters like Eric Taylor and Vince Bell and Townes Van Zandt and Don Sanders were just really encouraging to me and would let me sit in with them during their sets and introduce me to the person that owned and booked the club.” TryingFirstsPersonsPlaySongMy OwnLet MeClubsBellsIntroducingSongwritersVansEricHouston Author:Lyle Lovett
“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
“The thing I most connect with is the idea of not giving up. And thats a thing I have in my own life. You have to trust your instincts and keep trying.” GivingTryingIdeasMy OwnGiving UpInstinctNot Giving UpKeep TryingMy Own LifeTrust Your Instincts Author:Callie Thorne
“I don't see the songs as uplifting, but rather as trying to make lemonade from lemons, or whatever. When I listen to them, I understand the context. I don't like to pepper songs with my own experiences, though.” TryingSongMy OwnUpliftingLemonsPeppersLemonadeMake Lemonade Author:Patrick Stump
“I have always considered myself a fast learner. I try to retain and absorb as much information and knowledge about the [music] business as I can. I don't want to just sit back and have other people do the hard work for me. I try to be involved in every process of my career as possible. I run my own social media, record, and try to vocal produce myself as much as possible, write my own songs, style myself, and learn the business side. If I didn't do acting or music, I was going to school for business. God has put me on this path and I can honestly say I wake up every day doing what I love.” PeopleIfsWantWritingTryingI CanHardRunningSchoolSongSocialProcessSidesMy OwnActingCareersPathRecordsMediaStyleInformationProduceHard WorkInvolvedWake UpSocial MediaHonestlyVocalMusic BusinessLearners Author:Asher Monroe
“Most of promoting seems unnatural to me, and I wish I didn't have to do it. I'm not especially good at tooting my own horn. However, I do love to connect with readers. That's why I try to keep up with my social media even when I don't have a new book coming out.” TryingBookSeemsWishSocialMy OwnMediaReaderSocial MediaComing OutPromotingHornsUnnaturalNew Books Author:Linda Conrad
“There will always be critics. On one hand, criticism can be positive. On the other hand, criticism can be negative. But critics will always be watching the game. If you listen to everybody, you can go crazy. I have my own point of view, and I always try to keep it.” IfsTryingHandsGamesMy OwnViewsCrazyNegativeCriticismCriticsPoint Of ViewBeing Positive Author:Alexander Ovechkin
“My mother taught me the principles of hard work, setting my own goals and visualizing my future. From my early days with Destiny's Child, I understood I had to be focused and dedicated if I wanted true success. We were taught we needed a plan and the discipline to execute that plan to the fullest. I strongly believe if you work hard, whatever you want, it will come to you. I know that's easier said than done but keep trying.” IfsKnowsWantTryingBelieveChildrenSaidHardDoneWantedMotherGoalMy OwnPrinciplesDestinyPlansTaughtHard WorkNeededDisciplineEasierUnderstoodFocusedSettingSettingsDedicatedKeep TryingMy FutureTrue SuccessVisualizingEasier Said Than Done Author:Beyonce Knowles
“If I was rich enough, I would love to launch my own record label. I would love to try and give all my musically talented friends a start in the industry.” IfsGivingTryingEnoughMy OwnRichRecordsIndustryLabelsRecord Labels Author:Cara Delevingne
“My fingers curl through the holes in the wicker, through the wet grass beneath it, trying to hold tight to the sharp blades of the present. Somewhere in my brain a sinkhole is bubbling over, and each bubble contains a scene from a tiny sunken world ... I have never been the prophet of my own past before. It makes me wonder how the healthy dreamers can bear to sleep at all, if sleep means that you have to peer into that sinkhole by yourself. ... I had almost forgotten this occipital sorrow, the way you are so alone with the things you see in dreams.” IfsWorldWayTryingMeanDreamPastMy OwnSleepBrainWonderBearsSorrowHealthySceneFingersForgottenTinyHolesGrassProphetDreamerBubblesWetPeersBladesCurlsSinkholes Author:Karen Russell
“Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.” TryingMy OwnPayCompanyStruggleScriptsOddPhiladelphiaCheesecake Author:Nancy Meyers
“I have never sung a whole song on my own before and I am not the best dancer in the world, but I would rather try and fall than not not try at all.” WorldTryingWholeSongFallMy OwnDancer Author:Geri Halliwell
“Music is supposed to be entertaining and if it touches you emotionally, so much the better. Sometimes you do it to save your own life, not anybody else's. That's why I write. I'm not trying to change anybody else's life or the world, I'm trying to keep from blowing my own brains out. That's the real point.” IfsWorldWritingTryingRealSometimesMy OwnBrainMusic IsSupposed To BeEntertainingTrying To Change Author:Guy Clark
“I don't listen to music for fun. I ain't got enough time for fun! I'm always busy writing my own music. I don't try to compete or see what other people are doing.” PeopleWritingTryingEnoughFunMy OwnBusyListening To MusicEnough Time Author:Dolly Parton
“Stuff I like is getting trashed and stuff that is being praised I think is terrible. I don't really feel in sync with what's happening, but at the same time, what I think keeps me afloat is that I try not to be, and don't want to be, very indulgent. I try to make the films as lean as possible, and to not spend a lot of time crawling up my own ass creatively.” ThinkingWantFeelsTryingFilmStuffMy OwnTerribleHappeningsAssCrawlingSyncStuff I Like Author:Steven Soderbergh
“The trick is not to get too fanatical about getting the accent too accurate because then that becomes a mask. What I try to do is just painting and sketching some of the sounds without obliterating my own voice.” TryingSoundVoiceMy OwnPaintingTricksMaskAccurateAccentsSketching Author:Anthony Hopkins
“A lot of my friends they call me 'the therapist'. They come to me looking for advice. I must be doing something right because they keep coming back. But I'm not very good at kind of looking into my own world and trying to pick apart what is really wrong and fix those things. I like to kind of shy away from certain issues and turn away.” WorldTryingKindCertainTurnsMy OwnIssuesAdvicePicksMy FriendsVery GoodShyCall MeComing BackTherapistsMy Own World Author:Janet Jackson
“One of the privileges of doing television is the ability to evaluate my own performance and try to improve upon it.” KnowsTryingMy OwnAbilityTelevisionPerformancesPrivilegeEvaluate Author:Zooey Deschanel
“...a disgruntled reflection on my own life as a sort of desperate improvisation in which I was constantly trying to make something coherent from conflicting elements to fit rapidly changing settings.” TryingMy OwnFitElementsReflectionSettingSettingsDesperateImprovisationMy Own LifeDisgruntled Book:Composing a Life Source: Composing a Life
“I am oblique; I think that has to do with my own nature. I like trying to do things which work on many levels, because I think it is terribly important to give an audience a lot of things they might not get as well as those they will, so that finally the film does take on a texture and is not just simplistic communication.” ThinkingGivingTryingWellsDoeImportantMightFilmMy OwnLevelsAudienceCommunicationTexture Author:Alan J. Pakula
“I have a tendency to pick up my own challenges. The more difficult something it is, the more I want to try it.” WantTryingDifficultChallengesMy OwnPicksTendencies Author:Joanne Harris
“People have said there is an integrity about me, and I think there is. I don't try to follow a trend. I have my own little path.” PeopleThinkingTryingLittlesSaidMy OwnPathIntegrityTrends Author:Sarah Brightman
“I guess that in this process of trying to incorporate or to be faithful to the films I admire so much, thats how I start to find my own voice. The admiration I have for filmmakers, this gratitude, perhaps thats my only way to become specific.” WayTryingFilmProcessVoiceMy OwnGratitudeAdmireFaithfulFilmmakerAdmirationBeing Faithful Author:Arnaud Desplechin
“Religion and anger has gone together a lot, historically. My father, being very religious and angry, was trying to reconcile the ideas of love and forgiveness with damage in his own heart. We historically create God in the image of someone who will redeem us, or someone who has damaged us. A lot of my imaginations of God was a projection of my own damage because of my father. God is good but he has a lot of expectations, of which I have failed -- just like my dad. But I don't think it's truthful to create God as a projection of either our damage or our altruism.” ThinkingTryingHeartIdeasTogetherFatherImaginationReligiousMy OwnGoneDadExpectationsAngryMy DadDamageTruthfulAltruismMy ImaginationProjectionReconcileLove And Forgiveness Author:William P. Young
“The thing that I have been emphasizing in my own work for the last few years has been the group approach. To try to buy groups of stocks that meet some simple criterion for being undervalued-regardless of the industry and with very little attention to the individual company.” TryingYearsLittlesHas BeensLastsIndividualMy OwnSimpleAttentionCompanyGroupsIndustryApproachInvestingCriteriaUndervalued Author:Benjamin Graham
“Such humble talents as God had given me I will endeavour to put to their greatest use; if I am able to amuse, I will try to benefit too; and when I fell it my duty to speak unpalatable truth, with the help of God, I will speak it, through it be to the prejudice of my name and to the detriment of my reader's immediate pleasure as well as my own.” IfsTryingWellsHelpingUseAbleNamesSpeakGivenMy OwnPleasureTalentDutyReaderBenefitsPrejudiceHumbleEndeavour Author:Anne Bronte
“People just try to put you in a box and I don't see myself in any particular box. I'm making my own box. There's no way I would be able to make the music I'm making without dancing.” PeopleWayTryingWould BeAbleMy OwnParticularDancingBoxes Author:Jillian Hervey
“I am someone who's very positive about business, as a social Democrat. I do like the safety net of the welfare system and people setting things and creating business, and that's what I try to do with my own work: export it around the world from the U.K.” PeopleWorldTryingSocialMy OwnCreatingSafetyDemocratSettingSettingsAround The WorldWelfareVery PositiveSafety Net Author:Eddie Izzard
“The Beatles are now history, and it would be unhealthy to try to make my way as a former member. I must admit I occasionally listen to our records, but usually it's not deliberate. I'm more concerned with the present, with working out my own individual style and producing something new and worthwhile.” WayTryingWould BeIndividualMy OwnRecordsStyleMembersConcernedWork OutFormerMy WaySomething NewWorthwhileDeliberateUnhealthyIndividual Style Author:George Harrison
“That's how it always is with me: the thing that sets me down to start writing is usually not what I end up doing. Because, as much as I love genre, and I try to deliver the goods, I go off from it. I go do my own thing.” WritingTryingEndsMy OwnGenreGoods Author:Quentin Tarantino
“I think that with the Internet, it has given a lot of people the opportunity to get themselves out there to the masses. But it's easy to group everyone that's on the Internet together. I try to cross and jump around between genres and different styles, kind of find my own niche.” PeopleThinkingTryingKindDifferentTogetherOpportunityGivenEasyMy OwnGroupsStyleInternetMassCrossesGenreNicheDifferent Styles Author:Mac Miller
“When I direct I try to keep it a unique design of my own. Naturally you're influenced.” TryingMy OwnDesignUniqueDirect Author:Anthony Hopkins
“Oliver Stone is a great director and I've seen many films over the years, but I try to create stuff out of my own imagination. I want to break all the rules and mess about with it and make a different movie just for the fun of it.” WantTryingYearsDifferentFilmFunStuffImaginationMy OwnBreakDirectorsStonesMess Author:Anthony Hopkins
“My work is trying to at least define myself on my own terms, and then if other people enjoy things that's a lovely addition.” PeopleIfsTryingEnjoyTermMy OwnLovely Author:Bo Burnham
“Every time that God navigates my ship, there's nothing cerebral going on. There's very little thought. It's almost as if I have the directions. Every time I try to do it myself, I'm conjuring up my own concoction and trying.” IfsTryingLittlesMy OwnShipsNavigateCerebralConjuring Author:Lauryn Hill
“I try not to be influenced when it comes to being creative, just in order to sustain my own voice and character. However, I do have many inspirations from the worlds of literature, music, comedy and film.” WorldTryingCharacterInspirationFilmOrderLiteratureVoiceMy OwnCreativeComedyBe Creative Author:Doc Brown
“I'm a piano player. I never thought of myself as a singer, at all. I was always trying to sound like somebody else. I don't like my own voice, I like Ray Charles, Robert Plant, I like Joe Cocker, Rod Stewart, people that have an edge in their voice.” PeopleTryingSoundVoiceMy OwnPlayerPlantEdgesSingersPianoRaysAlways Trying Author:Billy Joel
“From the first days of my career as an entrepreneur, I have always used my own and my team's lack of experience to our advantage. In fact, at our first venture, Student magazine, we used our newcomer status to secure great interviews and generate publicity - people were excited about our new project and wanted to get involved. Our inexperience fed our restless enthusiasm for trying new things, which became part of our core mission.” PeopleTryingFirstsFactsWantedUsedMy OwnCareersTeamStudentsInvolvedProjectsAdvantageEntrepreneurExcitedMissionsCoreMagazinesEnthusiasmSecureInterviewsFedsNew ThingsVentureRestlessGet InvolvedPublicityInexperienceTrying New ThingsNew ProjectsNewcomers Author:Richard Branson
“When I was a teenager, I didn't get to do a lot of the things that other kids my age were doing because my dad was very controlling and he wouldn't allow me to go to school activities, like games and dances. So I didn't have positive expectations for my future or really dream about what I could do with my life. I was just trying to survive until I could get out on my own.” TryingDreamKidsAgeSchoolGamesMy OwnDadActivityExpectationsMy DadTeenagerMy FuturePositive Expectations Author:Joyce Meyer
“I guess in my own life, privacy, anonymity, and the mystery of being lost are important. I also feel that people are mysterious and complex no matter what they do, and no matter how hard they try to reveal their own mystery.” PeopleFeelsTryingImportantMatterHardLostMy OwnMysteryNo Matter WhatComplexesMysteriousPrivacyMy Own LifeAnonymity Author:Jennifer Egan
“I'm trying to escape by forming my own kind of world. Basically, I'm trying to encourage others to do the same.” WorldTryingKindMy Own Author:Terry Gilliam
“I want to do my own thing, and I'm trying to get closer to realizing that as a filmmaker.” WantTryingRealizingMy OwnFilmmaker Author:Charlie Kaufman
“It was really hard coming to terms with the Nazi history. Then in my twenties I was traveling to Germany. There was a lot of poetry activity and some of my first readings abroad and trying to relate with people my own age there and what they were discovering and learning had to examine in terms of their backgrounds. Then so many of my friends had family who had either perished in the holocaust or survived in the holocaust. It was very palpable.” PeopleTryingFirstsHardAgeReadingTermMy OwnActivityMy FriendsTwentiesBackgroundsRelateGermanyHolocaustDiscoveringSurvivedNazi Author:Anne Waldman
“If anxiety is the major force of our contemporary condition, a lot of poetry - including my own, mostly - sort of tries to escape that, fly off into magical thinking or bewilderment or whatever.” IfsThinkingTryingForceMy OwnConditionsAnxietyMajorsIncludingContemporaryBewildermentMagical Thinking Author:Mike Young