Trying Quotes (4291 quotes)

Picture of quotation author Catherine Zeta-Jones
„I may be the first actress to admit that beauty doesn't hold you back. I think beauty is a gift that you have to make the most of. I've worked hard at trying to look my best.“
Picture of quotation author Niklas Zennstrom
„When we started Skype, if you look at analyst reports, no one forecasted it as a big business. Also when Google started, it was not fashionable to be in search. It's not trying to do the obvious - that's the hard part.“
Picture of quotation author Zedd
„Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do.“
― Zedd ―
Picture of quotation author Natalie Zea
„I've been trying to get into comedy for years. I had a meeting with one of the networks a couple years ago, a general meeting, and when they asked what I was looking for and I told them I'd prefer to do comedy, it was as if I had two heads.“
― Natalie Zea ―
Picture of quotation author David Zayas
„To get into another person's mindset and what they are trying to do with their project is a challenge, and it is what I like.“
― David Zayas ―
Picture of quotation author Jamie Zawinski
„Using these toolkits is like trying to make a bookshelf out of mashed potatoes.“
― Jamie Zawinski ―
Picture of quotation author Sara Zarr
„I'm so focused on trying to craft the story that I'm in my own little world with it and that process. The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please.“
― Sara Zarr ―
Picture of quotation author Sara Zarr
„The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please.“
― Sara Zarr ―
Picture of quotation author Sara Zarr
„There were about ten years of trying, failing, trying again, suffering rejection, etc. My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the fourth book I wrote.“
― Sara Zarr ―
Picture of quotation author Abraham Zapruder
„Yes, sir, a patrol car came and took me down to a station where they were trying to develop films, but they hadn't got the facilities to develop colored film.“
Picture of quotation author Townes Van Zandt
„I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best.“
Picture of quotation author Mark Zandi
„It has become fashionable to rail against government intervention in the economy, and the FHA is a favorite example by those trying to show the government's overreach. In reality, the FHA shows how government action during the Great Recession forestalled a much worse economic fate.“
― Mark Zandi ―
Picture of quotation author Steve Yzerman
„I'm exhausted trying to stay healthy.“
― Steve Yzerman ―
Picture of quotation author Muhammad Yunus
„What we are trying to do is to create a social business in Bangladesh, a joint venture to create restaurants for common people. Good, healthy food at affordable prices so that people don't have to opt for food that is unhealthy and unhygienic.“
― Muhammad Yunus ―
Picture of quotation author Muhammad Yunus
„We developed microfinance to fight loan sharks - I was telling people don't go to loan sharks - not trying to take advantage and make money for myself. I would be a junior loan shark if I did... It is not a panacea.“
― Muhammad Yunus ―
Picture of quotation author Eliezer Yudkowsky
„I keep trying to explain to people that the archetype of intelligence is not Dustin Hoffman in 'The Rain Man;' it is a human being, period. It is squishy things that explode in a vacuum, leaving footprints on their moon.“
Picture of quotation author Mosab Hassan Yousef
„The God of Quran is trying to unskin Muslims from their humanity. Muslims are good people. But their God is absolutely bad.“
Picture of quotation author Mosab Hassan Yousef
„I want everybody to worship the God of love instead of worshipping the God of hate and torture. But in the meantime, we don't want to force Jesus Christ on anybody and look that we are trying to force our beliefs onto others.“
Picture of quotation author Mosab Hassan Yousef
„I'm not trying to convert the entire nation of Israel and the entire nation of Palestine to Christianity. But at least if you can educate them about the ideology of love, the ideology of forgiveness, the ideology of grace. Those principles are great regardless, but we can't deny they came from Christianity as well.“
Picture of quotation author William P. Young
„I think people are tired of religion and how it divides and damages people. You can name it whatever you want, Islam or Christianity, but if you have a system in which God is distant and angry all the time, and you're trying to please him through the right disciplines, it isn't going to work for everyone.“

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