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In the midst of an ordinary training day, I try to remind myself that I am preparing for the extraordinary.
I've spent my life trying to be better than I was, and I am a brother to all who share the same aspiration.
I don't generally derive my stories from novels. I try to turn into film things I have felt or experienced.
I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.
A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail.
I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A rule sometimes broken is better than no rule.
We have to ask ourselves, 'Am I really trying to discern God's will, or determine whether I want to do it?'
I'm trying to protect you. From myself. I don't do..." he swung a finger back and forth between us"...this.
It's pure instinct that makes me rebel every time someone tries to control my life and hand out more rules.
I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.
I'm never tired of going to the studio. I enjoy recording and documenting everything and trying new things.
Simply put; I'm trying to see what I can get done with the horse without him being troubled about doing it.
I try to improvise like Les Young, Louis Armstrong or someone else I admire. What comes out is what I feel.
You hear stories like that of Canadians trying to get in, but when you go back home, you don't expect that.
I try very much, whenever I do projects, whatever it is, there's only one thing on my mind, only one thing.
If we try to secure the well-being of others, we will, at the same time, create the conditions for our own.
Landmarks to the muses that inspired the music. When I could tell it was sincere without trying to prove it
When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself.
There's always one more way to do things and that's your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.
I wake the dead. I bring Jackie Robinson and the Roosevelts to life. Who do you think Im trying to wake up?
I’m a Brooklyn guy onstage, and I try to really feed my fans with the kind of material they expect from me.
The only real failure is the failure to try, and the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment.
You just need to be accepted for who you are and be proud of who you are and that is what I'm trying to do.
I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.
Don’t get discouraged if you stumble at times. The first step to walking in righteousness is simply to try.
I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE AND THANK EVERYONE WHO TRIES TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES OF VULNERABLE CIVILIANS
My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly.
Straight photography, following the medium, is intoxicating - trying to wrestle it into the form of a poem.
I try to identify myself with the atoms ... I ask what I would do If I were a carbon atom or a sodium atom.
If you try to give an on-the-one-hand-or-the-other- hand answer, only one of the hands tends to get quoted.
One of the things I try to be very careful of is not taking a movie when I know I have no inspiration left.
Forget loyalty. Or at least loyalty to one's corporation. Try loyalty to your Rolodex-your network-instead.
Trying to compromise EXCELLENCE, is like trying to let a little bit of air out of a balloon with a hat pin.
Art tries, literally, to picture the things which philosophy tries to put into carefully thought-out words.
But try as I might, I never got to eat any of her pastries, and do you know, she never even offered me one.
A writer is trying to create believable people in credible moving situations in the most moving way he can.
When I perform, I like to immerse myself in the music, and I just try to get off on the diversity of music.
I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.
Don't be smart. Smart is only a polished version of dumb. Try intelligence. It will surely see you through.
And though some days it is very hard, I try not to live for the future. And I try not to dream of the past.
My 20s were a time where I made it; my 30s were when I was away, confused, and trying to figure it all out.
I'm pretty vocal about my healthy lifestyle choices. I do try to eat organic, high protein and gluten free.
I just keep my game plan the same and try to just go out there and be efficient and attack the strike zone.
When I run in the morning, my body spends the first 20 minutes trying to figure out what's happening to it.
When you paint, try to put down exactly what you see. Whatever else you have to offer will come out anyway.
Literally, I just love food and I like going to dinner with big groups of people so you can try everything.
I create something that means something to me, to the world, and try to do my best. I can't fix everything.
We were like deaf people trying to dance to a beat we couldn't hear, long after the music actually stopped.
We found ourselves in a hole that I didn't dig, but I have dug, dug and dug to try to get out of that hole.
Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.