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There's an expression: Great is the enemy of the good. Sometimes in trying to be great, you make a mess of things.
I'm very interested in tennis, but when I try to tell younger players about [Bill] Tilden, they're not interested.
My biggest thing is to stay with my approach and take quality ABs to the plate. I'm just trying to keep it simple.
You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.
When you truly give up trying to be whole through others, you end up receiving what you always wanted from others.
That's the goal. Just to go out and not try to prove anybody wrong but just let your talents speak for themselves.
I try to create work that doesn't make viewers feel they're being spoken down to, so they feel open participation.
We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create.
I try to get rid of people who always confidently answer questions about which they don't have any real knowledge.
Even though I am not hungry when I get up, I try to eat to get me ready for the day. Within an hour of getting up.
I always try to practice what I preach. I meditate for fifteen minutes every day and do yoga several times a week.
Try a recipe that uses leafy vegetables like kale, or switch to filling, high fiber grains like whole-wheat pasta.
You grow (and thrive!) by doing what excites you and what scares you everyday, not by trying to find your passion.
First of all, if you're setting up a new company, you want to try to find a brand that can work on a global basis.
Everything reminds Milton of the money supply. Well, everything reminds me of sex, but I keep it out of the paper.
You try to get to know your character as best as you can before you start filming - whats written and not written.
A welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.
Live every day as if you've come back in time from a dystopian future to try and prevent everything from breaking.
I've seen time and time again the way that the process of trying to say something dignifies and improves a person.
When I write now, I pretend I'm holding hands with the old me. I try to make sense of all those questions for her.
You don't want to try to protect yourself from the pain of a crisis. You want to learn everything you can from it.
I've always believed that as an actor anything you're asked to do is within you. You just have to try and find it.
We've all made mistakes that are similar in just trying to get by or make some money or feel good about ourselves.
Things don't spiral out of control when we surrender them; they spiral out of control when we try to control them!
What I don't do is try to like become whoever I'm rapping with. The people who go get an LL album want to hear LL.
Those have been the two biggest challenges of my life: trying to follow Radiohead, and trying to follow Brad Pitt.
One thing I'm not is a moralistic filmmaker. I'm not trying to tell people what to do, and I'm not trying to lead.
If an artist is one who spends his life trying to define his being, I guess I would have to call myself an artist.
I listen to the audience and try and bounce with them. All audiences are different. But they are all homo sapiens.
You could just tell when a person belonged somewhere. That is something you can't fake, no matter how hard you try
I try not to date musicians. It's all I've dated. Every guy I've dated is a musician. Obviously, it's not working.
A rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it.
If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
Elizabeth Taylor was so fat that whenever she went to London in a red dress, 30 passengers would try to board her.
My guiding principle as president has been to try to do the right thing even when it's not politically convenient.
Sexuality is pushed back more and more and people try to replace what they've lost with other forms of excitement.
Every woman should try a Brazilian wax once. And then the sex they have afterward will make them keep coming back!
We're trying to divide groups or decide that some of them are truly victims and some of them are truly aggressors.
Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.
I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.
Try to live without something digital - without digital code for about two hours, very hard to do if you're awake.
Hyun Joong brother always prays SS501 WILL BE FOREVER ONE so we always try our best to make our performances cool.
It's my job to try to communicate with as little showiness as possible. I was a really showy actor as a young man.
If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try.
The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms.
A friend is someone who can brighten your day with a simple smile, when others try to do it with a thousand words.
Even a documentary portrait of a person that tries to be very accurate is shaped by the filmmaker in so many ways.
Even when I was saying I was Agnostic and trying to figure out my thoughts, I felt God was allowing me to do that.
In trying to be perfect, He perfected the art of anonymity, Became imperceptible And arrived nowhere from nowhere.
I do NOT accept the ephemeral nature of this moment. I'm going to extend it FOREVER! Or at least I'm going to try.