Trying Hard Quotes - Page 4

• I know, I say, after he says, This is hard, for the third time. This is what happens when you have a TRM, I tell him. You make a mess. It's okay. You just have to try harder next time. I am trying hard, Dad says. I know. You get a sticker. Thank you. Okay. You get another sticker for being polite.

  Kathryn Erskine

  Dad, Trying, Next

  Kathryn Erskine (2010). “Mockingbird”, p.84, Penguin

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• The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change.

  Stockwell Day

  Trying, Typical, Stories

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• Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life.

  Bryan Adams

  Later In Life, Life Is Hard, Trying

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• If I don't have at least 4 or 5 failures a month, I feel like I'm not trying hard enough

  Ramit Sethi

  Trying, Months, Enough

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• Concentration comes not from trying hard to focus on something, but from keeping your mind open and directing it at nothing.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Focus, Mind, Trying

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• I made observations for three hours last night, and am almost ill today from fatigue; still I have worked all day, trying to reduce the places, and mean to work hard again tonight.

  Maria Mitchell

  Hard Work, Mean, Night

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• I'm trying hard not to use a specific reference, but you'll probably know it's you after the first sentence.

  Donald Glover

  Trying, Use, Firsts

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• I don't know who I touch and who I don't. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don't have any secrets. I don't know the reasons I've been so well received.

  Adam Sandler

  Growing Up, Hard Work, People

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• Chimps are brutal, and it is so deliberate. The males go out and get near the boundary of their territory. And they walk very silently trying hard not to make any noise. They will climb into a tree and stare out over hostile territory for hours. They are waiting for the right opportunity. And then they attack.

  Jane Goodall

  Opportunity, Tree, Waiting

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think writers can respond by writing about the refugee crisis, by looking at problems faced by migrants, by trying hard to portray them as the human beings that they are.

  Adam Hochschild

  Writing, Thinking, Refugee Crisis

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I've been spending this last month trying to find four outfits to wear to the different premieres of The Two Towers. It's hard work.

  Liv Tyler

  Hard Work, Two, Trying

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• You know, my goal is not to convince you that I'm right or that you're wrong. About homophobia. Gun violence. Racism. Whatever the issue. I'm really trying hard with you - and others - to have a respectful discussion, debate about these issues.

  Steven Petrow

  Gun, Issues, Racism

  "Civilities: We'll be talking about your reactions to the Orlando massacre for the full hour". Live chat, live.washingtonpost.com. June 21, 2016.

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• How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Educational, Learning

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.41, Booklassic

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• I would like to thank all the people who've said such nice things about it. Team Batman is giving it our collective all for you. We're trying hard to not let you down.

  Greg Capullo

  Nice, Team, People

  Source: www.ign.com

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• Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It's been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I'm talking about. But I'm still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car.

  Patrick Stewart

  Stars, Believe, Men

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am trying hard to better my performances every match.

  Suresh Raina

  Trying, Performances, Hard

  Source: www.oyecricket.com

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• I'm making a record that's half stripped down acoustic which is the way I perform a lot and half of it is very produced. It's really hard to keep music simple but I was trying to keep it simple and focus on one or two instruments and vocals.

  Lisa Loeb

  Simple, Two, Focus

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• I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I try to make them sound as natural as possible, but within a quite strict form, which to my ears has a lot to do with musical rhythm and sound.

  Anne Stevenson

  Musical, Trying, Sound

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• Sometimes it just doesn't translate to people. You just move on, and you feel bad because people worked so hard on it and everyone loved it... Everybody was treated so well and was going for something and trying to do the best work possible.

  Catherine Keener

  Moving, People, Trying

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• I think that you have to present an image that is... true to you, and... the way you would like to be perceived, so I think that through the years I've worked really hard at trying to create an image that is true to me.

  Kristanna Loken

  Thinking, Years, Trying

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• I know there's a great deal of speculation, and while I appreciate the interest, kind of, my contract ends in May and I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to do. I'm fortunate to have a couple of opportunities to think long and hard about.

  Katie Couric

  Couple, Opportunity, Thinking

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• Our enemies and our would-be enemies are working very hard at cyberterrorism... They're trying to level the playing field because they know they can't beat us tank for tank, plane for plane.

  Curt Weldon

  Working Very Hard, Enemy, Trying

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• Atticus said that Jem was trying hard to forget something, but what he was really doing was storing it away for a while, until enough time passed. Then he would be able to think about it and sort things out. When he was able to think about it, Jem would be himself again.

  Harper Lee

  Thinking, Trying, Enough Time

  "To Kill a Mockingbird". Book by Harper Lee, 1962.

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• By the way, I haven't heard an 'I'm sorry' from you yet." My sense of grievance had overwhelmed my sense of self-preservation. I am sorry that the maenad picked on you." I glared at him. "Not enough," I said. I was trying hard to hang on to this conversation. Angelic Sookie, vision of love and beauty, I am prostrate that the wicked evil maenad violated your smooth and voluptuous body, in an attempt to deliver a message to me." That's more like it.

  Charlaine Harris

  Sorry, Self, Evil

  Charlaine Harris (2003). “Dead in Dixie”

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• Hell must be a pretty swell spot, because the guys that invented religion have sure been trying hard to keep everybody else out.

  Al Capone

  Guy, Trying, Hell

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