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  • My style icon has always been my mom. I feel like she was always sophisticated and effortless and looked really well put together without trying too hard.

    Mom   Icons   Style  
    Source: www.justjared.com
  • Our intentions attract the elements and forces, the events, the situation, the circumstances and the relationships necessary to fulfill the intended outcome. We don't need to become involved in the details-in fact, trying too hard may backfire. Let the non-local intelligence synchronize the actions of the universe to fulfill your intentions for you.

    Deepak Chopra (2007). “The Essential Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire: The Essence of Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence”, p.111, Harmony
  • But baseball was different... You stood and waited and tried to still your mind. When your moment came, you had to be ready, because if you f****d up, everyone would know whose fault it was. What other sport not only kept a stat as cruel as the error, but posted it on the scoreboard for everyone to see? ... You could only try so hard not to try too hard before you were right back around to trying too hard. And trying hard, as everyone told him, was wrong, all wrong.

  • I've been accused of trying too hard to rescue people

    Father   People   Trying  
    Kim Edwards (2010). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter”, p.406, Penguin UK
  • I just don't like showing everything I've got. I don't want to look like I'm trying too hard to be sexy.

    Sexy   Trying   Looks  
  • Trying too hard to be too good, even when trying to be bad, is too good for the bad, too bad for the good.

    "Imperfection". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic,
  • Sometimes men present a swagger that suggests a prowess, whether it's sexual or financial. L.A. seems to be a place where trying too hard is almost a given. Some people are unapologetic about how blatantly they represent who they are through what they wear or drive. Subtlety is in short supply.

    Apology   Men   People  
  • Let the world unfold without always attempting to figure it all out. Let relationships just be, since everything is going to stretch out in Divine order. Don't try so hard to make something work - simply allow. Don't always toil at trying to understand your mate, your children, your parents, your boss, or anyone else because the Tao is working at all times.

    Dr Wayne W Dyer (2009). “Change Your Thoughts-Change Your Life (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.5, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • I don't like it when people are trying too hard. That goes for clothes, for acting, for everything. It's just not good when it seems like you're making too much of an effort.

    Clothes   People   Effort  
    "Milan Party Report: New Masculinity, Clive Owen-Approved" by Josh Peskowitz, www.esquire.com. June 23, 2010.
  • When I was growing up, I would try to sing out of key very consciously. I was probably afraid of trying too hard to do something beautiful, and then I just wasn't good enough. But I've learned that I was also on the outside - wanting more challenge by living in that more conventional world.

    "Jenny Hval's Soft Dick Rock". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. June 15, 2015.
  • It's dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you're feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That's why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling.

    Children   Dark   Self  
  • I've always been a really really big Sheryl Crow fan. I just respect what she does in a way that she just remains true to her music and sort of has just been real. She isn't trying too hard ever.

    Real   Crow   Trying  
  • When you do your best, people notice.

    People  
  • A lot of young actors have the idea that, "I've got to do this right. There's a right way to do this." But there's no right or wrong. There's only good and bad. And "bad" usually happens when you're trying too hard to do it right. There's a very broad spectrum of things that can inhibit you. The most important thing for actors - and not just actors, but everybody - is to feel loose enough to create what you want to create, and be free to try anything. To have choices.

    Success   Ideas   Choices  
  • In all this welter of women I still hadn't got one for myself, not that I was trying too hard, but sometimes I felt lonely to see everybody paired off and having a good time and all I did was curl up in my sleeping bag in the rosebushes and sigh and say bah. For me it was just red wine in my mouth and a pile of firewood

    Lonely   Wine   Sleep  
    Jack Kerouac (2007). “Road Novels 1957-1960”
  • Sometimes people start to meditate and they get a headache. It's because they're trying too hard. You're pulling in too much energy.

  • I'm very interested in trying to make comedy shows that are a bit bigger, more theatrical, more of a "show." Some people might say I'm trying too hard, but that's a compliment to me. I like to inject a bit of production value and flair to comedy, or at least to my little corner of comedy.

    People   Trying   Littles  
    Source: www.popmatters.com
  • How to fail: Try too hard.

  • A lot of the men were upset or jealous of me because I got the girl. Men are always trying too hard. When I effortlessly get the girl, it pisses them off.

    Girl   Jealous   Men  
    Source: www.elle.com
  • What's your heart telling you to do? I don't know.' Maybe, you're trying too hard to hear it.

    Heart   Trying   Knows  
  • I think trying too hard to be sexy is the worst thing in the world a woman can do.

    Sexy   Thinking   Trying  
  • Trying too hard to follow every trend. You want to look fashionable and put-together, not like you hit every sale rack this season.

    Trying   Together   Looks  
  • It's no good telling somebody they're trying too hard. It's very much like ordering a child to go stand in a corner for a half hour and never once think about elephants.

    "The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper". Book by John D. MacDonald, 1965.
  • We humans are here because nothing can be perfect. There always have to be some living things that are unsatisfied, itchy, trying too hard. If it was all just animals and rocks and lettuce, the gods wouldn't feel like they had enough to do.

    Animal   Rocks   Perfect  
    "Miranda July" by Matthew Higgs, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 6, 2009.
  • How to succeed? Try hard enough.

  • You're trying too hard to find a correlation here. You don't know these people, you don't know what they intended. You try to compile statistics and correlate them to a result that amounts to nothing more than speculation.

  • That's basically the gangster code. Just be yourself. Just be you, dog. The easiest way to get your card plucked around a gangster is to be a fake. If we feel like you're trying too hard, if you're trying to act like you're from the street, you're in trouble.

  • On a daily basis, jeans and t-shirt is still sexy, but it doesn't look like you're trying too hard.

    Sexy   Jeans   Trying  
  • We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.

    Trying   Used   Felt  
    "J.J. Abrams on the Secret Movie References He Snuck into 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens'". Interview with Bruce Handy, www.vanityfair.com. May 6, 2015.
  • I like to look put together without trying too hard. I don't want to look as if God's made another rainbow - I prefer muted, autumnal colours, like most fading redheads.

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