“When I started studying acting in New York, I didn't plan to be an action hero. I just wanted to learn acting because I felt it was something I needed to try to do for myself, to express something, my inner pain, or something I couldn't get out.” TryingActionWantedPainFeltActingStudyPlansNew YorkHeroNeededAction Heroes Author:Dolph Lundgren
“We needed to make a sound that's not gonna fit in with everything else - we wanted to make something that was completely unique and individual to us. We spent a lot of time trying to make a sound that was a One Direction sound. At first it was quite hard to do that, but I'm really happy with the sound.” TryingFirstsHardWantedIndividualSoundNeededFitUniqueReally HappyOne Direction Author:Zayn Malik
“Firms don't just try to pay as little as possible to get the needed bodies on board; when there is unemployment, they ask themselves how wage cuts would affect the behavior of the employees. Would they quit or feel dissatisfied and work less hard on the firm's behalf if they feel that wage policies are unfair?” IfsFeelsTryingLittlesHardBodyAsksPayCuttingPolicyNeededBehaviorQuittingFirmBoardsEmployeeUnfairUnemploymentBehalfDissatisfied Author:Janet Yellen
“When I looked at the state of women's MMA, what I saw was that it was missing rivalries or anything theatrical about it. Everybody was trying to be Miss America, unwilling to go under any kind of criticism, and taking the safe answers. I thought I needed to do whatever I could to get attention.” TryingKindStatesAmericaAnswersAttentionSawsMissingNeededSafeCriticismMmaUnwillingTheatricalRivalryMiss America Author:Ronda Rousey
“The area between the nose and the chin, the subject of kissing and the vehicle for speech, is perhaps even more known and set upon than the eyes. The mouth is also riddled with a complex interweaving of folds, curves, flats and lost-and-found edges. These nuances are needed by a perceptive person who might try to understand human nature.” TryingHumansPersonsMightEyeFoundLostKnownSubjectsHuman NatureNeededKissingSpeechMouthsAreasComplexesEdgesNosesFlatsVehicleCurvesFoldsChinsNuancePortraitureLost And Found Author:Robert Genn
“I needed to get to know myself and really, really explore music without any pressure to sell it. I wanted to try and not restrain myself at all, so I've been trying to move quite freely between different sounds and genres.” KnowsTryingDifferentWantedMovingSoundNeededPressureSellsGenre Author:Tove Styrke
“It's been rough for me trying to find my position in the struggle and where my voice is needed and helpful. You know, I grew up in Philadelphia, and Philadelphia has a really rough police-brutality history. I grew up in a neighborhood where it was very clear that the police were "them" and we were "us".” KnowsTryingVoiceStruggleClearPositionGrewNeededGrew UpPoliceNeighborhoodHelpfulRoughPolice BrutalityBrutalityPhiladelphia Author:Will Smith
“It was when I realized I needed to stop trying to be somebody else and be myself, that I actually started to own, accept and love what I had.” TryingAcceptingNeededAnd LoveI RealizedStop Trying Author:Tracee Ellis Ross
“I only can write a book every two years, you know. And I write very fast, but I'm not always writing every day. I needed a contact with different things, like nature, for example. I cannot be in front of a computer trying to tell a story.” KnowsWritingTryingYearsTwoBookDifferentStoriesFrontsExampleNeededComputerContactDifferent ThingsTwo YearsWriting Every Day Author:Paulo Coelho
“As time goes by, I'm increasingly impressed by how very special and timely it was that we got the degree of national commitment needed to put people on the Moon. For the first time, this nation was united in trying to develop an interplanetary capability. We've been trying to repeat that situation ever since.” PeopleTryingFirstsNationsUnitedSituationSpecialNeededMoonDegreesCommitmentFirst TimeRepeatsCapabilityImpressedTimelyTime Goes By Author:Buzz Aldrin
“I could only try to comfort the women that I came face-to-face with. I was really moved by how much they wanted to talk, how much they needed to be comforted, and how happy they were that we were there.” TryingWantedFacesNeededComfortMovedFace To Face Author:Connie Sellecca
“Food is like a torture device because hiking 47 miles a day is hard enough. And then you're trying to get down 6,000 calories a day. Every hour, I needed a snack, every few hours I had to take in a meal and it's just not food, it's fuel. You're not enjoying it - you're seriously shoving it in your mouth and following it with water, juice or Gatorade.” TryingHardEnoughEnjoyWaterHoursNeededMouthsFollowingMilesMealsTortureFuelDevicesHikingJuiceCaloriesSnacksGatorade Author:Jennifer Pharr Davis
“I had no plan for that year but it wound up being one of the most important years of my football coaching career. It hit me along the way that I needed to really get at the heart of what's really true to myself. And then I was able to mold it and shape it in the years at SC to become the approach and the concept and the culture that we try to create here at Seattle.” WayTryingYearsHeartImportantAbleCultureCareersPlansFootballNeededShapesApproachConceptsWoundsNflCoachingMoldSuper BowlSeattleReally TrueFootball CoachTrue To MyselfFootball Coaching Author:Pete Carroll
“I think we really need a movement to drive how popular culture understands the issues that feminists care about. When I think about the LGBT movement for example, they have had a really intentional strategy to try to change images and representation of LGBT people in the media and the culture. It really moved the dial politically. That's what is needed in the women's movement - a strategy that can drive awareness and culture change.” PeopleThinkingNeedsTryingCareCultureIssuesAwarenessMediaExampleMovementNeededMovedStrategyFeministLgbtRepresentationPopular CultureCulture Change Author:Ai-jen Poo
“You're always going to make mistakes. That's life. You just want to grow from them and try to make as few as possible. That's why you do reach out and ask people for help, where needed.” PeopleWantTryingHelpingAsksGrowsMistakeNeededMaking MistakesReach Out Author:Hilary Swank
“I told everyone that actings for losers and I needed to get an education. But something kept telling me to give it one last chance. In the end, I lasted a month on the M.B.A. and then decided to quit, come back to L.A., and try again.” GivingTryingEndsLastsChanceActingMonthsNeededDecidedQuittingLoserTry AgainLast Chance Author:Judi Shekoni
“I know with Gary Ross especially, he kind of gave me pointers here and there, but he kind of let me become firm in any way that I needed, and he just let me try things and to explore what I can do with my acting. So that was very helpful.” KnowsWayTryingKindI CanCan DoActingNeededLet MeFirmHelpfulHere And ThereGaryPointers Author:Willow Shields
“I don't know if I want to record together again. I go off and on it... In the old days, when we needed an album, Paul and I got together and produced enough songs for it. Nowadays, there's three of us writing prolifically and trying to fit it all into one album.” IfsKnowsWantWritingTryingEnoughTogetherSongThreeMusicRecordsNeededFitMusic IsAlbumsOld DaysTogether Again Author:John Lennon
“I have sat with the mothers who have lost addicted sons. I have sat with families of kids who have been killed in drug-related gang violence. I have been to the prisons. I have seen the effects. At some point in time, I felt I had to do something other than write a novel about it, that I needed to try to make some sort of contribution, at least try to make some sort of difference in the real world.” WorldWritingTryingHas BeensRealKidsMotherLostFeltDifferencesNovelViolenceEffectsSonNeededDrugPrisonSatRelatedContributionReal WorldGangGang Violence Author:Don Winslow
“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
“I try to spend a lot of time thinking of what it is I want to say, and how I want to say it. Mainly because I know what it's like as a fan to hear music that is just exactly what I needed.” ThinkingKnowsWantTryingFansNeeded Author:Kristian Bush
“Always be on time. Never try to make any personal engagements. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Never be disturbed by anything. Always do what you're told to do as quickly as possible. Remember to lean back in a parade, so that people can see your husband. Don't get too fat to ride three on a seat. Get out of the way as quickly as you're not needed.” PeopleWayTryingLittlesRememberThreeTalkingNeededHusbandFatsSeatsEngagementDisturbedParadesYour Husband Author:Eleanor Roosevelt
“I've learned to take care of myself. You know, I try to stay conscious of whatever my energy is at all times, really. I mean, I come home from work, and, depending on the day or depending on what was going on, if I needed to adjust, I'd just meditate, or play guitar, or watch some Monty Python.” IfsKnowsTryingMeanPlayHomeCareEnergyWatchesNeededConsciousGuitarTake CareAll TimeI've LearnedComing HomePythonMonty Author:Brent Sexton
“Here's the beauty of a camera: you don't have to come up with words for what you're looking at... Maybe another angle is needed sometimes. When we're burned out from writing, we can photograph or draw, look at the world in a different way, and photographers could try writing what they see.” WorldWayWritingTryingLooksDifferentSometimesNeededDrawsCamerasPhotographerPhotographCome UpDifferent WaysBurnedAngleBurned Out Author:Barbara Abercrombie
“I was born in an odd spot and was a very sensitive kid. My feelings could get hurt so easily because I always wanted to be loved, I wanted to be touched, I wanted to touch somebody. I wanted everybody to love me, so I think I was louder than I should have been. I was just trying to get attention. I always felt like I was somebody special, maybe it's because I needed to be somebody special.” ThinkingShouldTryingHas BeensFeelingsKidsWantedFeltBornHurtAttentionSpecialNeededShould HaveSpotsOddSensitiveTouchedShould Have BeenWanted To Be LovedSomebody Special Author:Dolly Parton
“I can remember the time I would get my scripts and spent the entire weekend breaking them down and playing with them, and putting a lot of work into them, trying to bring the character to life, and to make interesting choices. It was one of the things to me that told me that I needed to change things up a little bit, because to me, I felt the passion was lacking from some of my performances.” TryingLittlesI CanCharacterRememberChoicesPassionFeltBitsInterestingNeededLittle BitPerformancesDown AndScriptsWeekendLacking Author:James Scott
“I was still very invested in the team, very invested in how we were doing. I realized I needed to take a step back and start focusing on myself, my head and my eye, try to get my health back.” TryingStillsEyeStepsTeamNeededI Realized Author:Chris Pronger
“When I was 14, I played in a summer league. One night the chief umpire asked me if I would like to try umpiring. There was a Little League tournament coming up and he needed more umpires than he had.” IfsTryingLittlesNightNeededSummerChiefsLeagueOne NightTournamentsUmpiresLittle League Author:Jim Evans
“Hell, we spent $200 Billion to get a scared guy who needed a shave out of a fox-hole! And he may even die of prostate cancer before we even get a chance to try him, dammit!” TryingMayGuyDiesPoliticsChanceHellNeededCancerScaredBillionsHolesFoxesProstateProstate Cancer Author:Ted Turner
“Early in my career, a critic said that I needed to "explain" the irony in my work, suggesting that I needed to add text next to the images to help people understand what I was trying to say. At first I was dismayed that I wasn't making work with a clear enough message. That's when I realized that that was the exact opposite of what I wanted to do - that I wasn't responsible for a misinterpretation of my work, that there should be some ambiguity to it. They either got it, or they didn't.” PeopleShouldTryingFirstsSaidEnoughHelpingWantedNextCareersClearNeededMessagesOppositesResponsibleAddCriticsI RealizedIronyAmbiguitySuggestingDismayedMisinterpretation Author:Cindy Sherman
“I wasn't intentionally trying to create my own path or be original, it was just I needed to say certain things and I needed to express myself, and that's how it came out.” TryingCertainMy OwnPathNeededOriginals Author:Emeli Sande
“Because of our library system anyone in America can educate themselves in any field they desire. If they are confused, librarians (that without exception in my forty-seven years experience with them) actually want to help; they take the time to try and get whatever is needed. For free. For anybody.” IfsWantTryingYearsHelpingAmericaDesireFieldsNeededSevenLibraryConfusedExceptionFortyEducateSeven YearsLibrarian Author:Nevada Barr
“I wanted to build something that was a system - that was mechanical and would propagate itself like a virus. I needed a way for it spread from person to person, and the best way to do that was trying to get someone to get their friends to sign up.” WayTryingPersonsWantedNeededSpreadBest WayViruses Author:Michael Birch
“Those who profit from adversity possess a spirit of humility and are therefore inclined to make the necessary changes needed to learn from their mistakes, failures, and losses. ... When we are focused too much on ourselves, we lose perspective. Humility allows us to regain perspective and see the big picture. ... Humility allows us to let go of perfection and keep trying.” TryingBigsSpiritLosesLossMistakeToo MuchHumilityPerspectiveNeededLetting GoPerfectionAdversityProfitFocusedKeep TryingBig PictureNecessary Change Author:John C. Maxwell
“Chris Davis [of the Davisfunds] has a temple of shame. He celebrates the things they did that lost them a lot of money. What is also needed is a temple of shame squared for things you didn't do that would have made you rich. Forgetting your mistakes is a terrible error if you are trying to improve your cognition. Reality doesn't remind you. Why not celebrate stupidities in both categories?” IfsTryingMadeRealityLostForgetMistakeRichNeededTerribleShameErrorsStupidityCelebrateTemplesWhy NotCategoriesLots Of MoneyForget YouCognition Author:Charlie Munger
“There's an old poem by Neruda that I've always been captivated by, and one of the lines in it has stuck with me ever since the first time I read it. It says "love is so short, forgetting is so long." It's a line I've related to in my saddest moments, when I needed to know someone else had felt that exact same way. And when we're trying to move on, the moments we always go back to aren't the mundane ones. They are the moments you saw sparks that weren't really there, felt stars aligning without having any proof, saw your future before it happened, and then saw it slip away without any warning.” KnowsWayTryingFirstsLongMomentsMovingStarsFeltLinesForgetLove IsSawsHappenedNeededFirst TimeProofStuckRelatedOur FutureSparksWarningSlipsYour FutureMundaneSaddestCaptivated Author:Taylor Swift
“I built a leprechaun trap that was made to look like a tiny hotel. There was a ramp where the leprechaun could walk into the hotel, see a Lego pot of gold on the other side, try to reach it, fall through a trap door, go through a tube, wind up in a biscuit tin, and be trapped. My mom, encouraging my madness, told me that the leprechaun might escape and that I needed a shot glass of whiskey down there to keep him occupied while he was in there.” TryingLooksMadeMightFallSidesWalksDoorsWindMomNeededShotsBuiltGoldMadnessGlassesMy MomTinyHotelPotTrappedTrapsWhiskeyTubesTinBiscuitsRampLeprechaunLegosPot Of GoldShot Glass Author:Alex Hirsch
“In a normal democracy, you protect the individual from the excessive power of the state. In Turkey, power elites try to protect the state - as if this state were fragile and needed protection - when in fact, it's too powerful already.” IfsTryingStatesFactsIndividualPowerfulDemocracyNeededProtectNormalProtectionFragileElitesTurkeys Author:Elif Safak
“From an early age, I was trying to get laughs, but it wasn't a conscious thing. I think I was about six months old when I first realized I needed friends in life and making people laugh worked for me. By nine months, I came out of my shell.” PeopleThinkingTryingFirstsAgeLaughingMonthsNeededSixConsciousNineShellsSix MonthsMaking People LaughNine Months Author:Arj Barker
“When I was about 15. I was just singing around, and people kept telling me I needed to try it. A friend got me to sing in front of Troy Taylor, and he took to me right there.” PeopleTryingFrontsNeededSinging Author:Trey Songz
“I left Stone Sour in '97 because, by that time, we'd been together for about five years and I was kind of getting to the point where I wanted to do something different. I loved the music that we did and I loved the guys that I was with, but I was 24 and just felt like I needed to go and try something different so I didn't get stuck where I was, you know, just doing the same thing. And, coincidentally, that's when Slipknot came and asked me to join. I'd never done anything like Slipknot up until then, so I was like, "Okay, we'll try this and we'll see what happens." And it worked out.” KnowsTryingYearsKindDifferentDoneHappensWantedTogetherGuyLeftFeltFiveNeededStonesOkayStuckFive YearsSourStone Sour Author:Corey Taylor
“When I was a kid, I was always around boys. I was always trying to keep up with boys - skateboarding and snowboarding. If my brother was mowing the lawn, I had to mow the lawn. If my brother was using a hammer, I needed to use a hammer. I've always been a little bit of a feminist.” IfsTryingLittlesUseKidsBitsBoysBrotherNeededLittle BitFeministMy BrotherHammersAlways TryingLawnsSkateboardingSnowboardingMowingMowing The Lawn Author:Daria Werbowy
“In order to avoid sentimentality and to be able to write the screenplay with the kind of humor and irony necessary to keep the story moving, I needed to distance myself as much as I could from the characters, to try to get to a point where I could view them objectively.” WritingTryingKindCharacterStoriesAbleMovingOrderViewsNeededDistanceIronyScreenplaysSentimentalityDistance Myself Author:Hirokazu Koreeda
“Some of us seem to be born with a drive to try to make the world kinder. In my twenties, living in New York City, I worked in a soup kitchen every Sunday for many years, just trying to do my part. Then I read Animal Liberation and learned about factory farming and the killing of animals for oven cleaner and realized nobody needed my help as badly as the animals did.” WorldTryingYearsHelpingSeemsBornAnimalCitiesNew YorkNeededTwentiesKillingLiberationKitchenSundayNew York CityFactoriesSoupFarmingCleanersKinderOvensAnimal LiberationFactory FarmingSoup Kitchens Author:Karen Dawn
“Kenneth Rexroth took me under his wing for a brief period. I was fifteen years old, and I was smoking a lot of heroin and trying to be cool, man, and I really loved poetry. And Kenneth convinced me that destroying myself was not really the best possible solution, and that I needed to look at the world's literature, and not just my own life, in order to be hip, if you will. So he had a huge influence on what became of me thereafter.” IfsMenWorldTryingYearsLooksOrderLiteratureMy OwnInfluenceHugeNeededPeriodsSolutionsWingsConvincedHipsSmokingDestroyingFifteenMy Own LifeHeroinBeing CoolFifteen YearsKennethFifteen Years Old Author:Sam Hamill
“I spent the first years working in Jordan trying to learn as much as I could about what was taking place in the country, about where there were gaps in the development process that needed attention.” TryingYearsFirstsCountryProcessAttentionDevelopmentNeededGapsJordan Author:Queen Noor of Jordan
“However, for story reasons, we needed to represent them in certain ways. One of the things that sort of blew me away that I didn't know when we started is that memories are completely susceptible to change. And this is, you know, one of the many reasons why certain people are trying to get it taken out - eyewitness testimony in court cases because it's very unreliable.” PeopleKnowsWayTryingReasonStoriesCertainMemoriesCasesTakenNeededCourtReason WhyTestimonySusceptibleUnreliableEyewitnessesCourt Cases Author:Pete Docter
“There's such a stigma around girls' periods, and women's sexuality - girls can't speak out for themselves or be who they want to be. I think that coming from the social platform that I have, I try to be a positive influence, and this was something that I felt needed to be seen and heard.” ThinkingWantTryingGirlSpeakSocialFeltHeardInfluenceNeededPeriodsSexualityPlatformsStigmaSpeaks OutPositive Influence Author:Chloe Grace Moretz
“I have a lot of books optioned. This one sat around for a while - part of that was just because I was trying to figure it out, and I didn't realize I needed Pam to figure it out - but I'm not somebody that likes to option books and then sit on them.” TryingBookRealizingFiguresNeededLikesSat Author:James Franco
“What I was saying back then was that we have a lot of public health costs that taxpayers end up paying for through Medicaid, Medicare, through uncompensated care, because that was in the context of the push for health care reform and that we needed some way to try to defray those costs.” WayTryingEndsCareNeededCostReformHealth CareTaxpayersMedicarePublic HealthHealth Care ReformMedicaid Author:Hillary Clinton