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Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, it's not the same - it's not even close to the same.
My advice to authors would be to try to do something original rather than to try to anticipate what the market is looking for.
We look directly into our suffering rather than try to become happy. The happiness that arises from this approach is reliable.
Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way, and actually the people who look different are the ones who get picked up.
For one thing, I like to walk when I play golf. Now I don't walk the whole way, but I try not to be the driver when in a cart.
Independent labels take nothing and make something out of it. Major labels buy that something, and try to make more out of it.
If you set up an environment where failing is encouraged then you want to try everything. It's obviously the best way to work.
I knew Danny DeVito and he knew me, so he wanted me to try Death to Smoochy. I loved that stuff and had a great time doing it.
If you surround yourself with people who are trying to build, who are all willing to build other people up, they build you up!
It's okay to be you. You don't have to try to be anybody else. Whatever you are, however you are, it's fine. Nobody's perfect.
And then in life, you always have to try, and today, I may not have succeeded, but I am happy to have tried to beat my record.
I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it's not about the ring. It's a grave thing, getting married.
NVC is founded on language and communication skills that strengthen our ability to remain human, even under trying conditions.
I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change.
In my opinion, actual heroism, like actual love, is a messy, painful, vulnerable business—and I wanted to try to reflect that.
How can we do our best when we are spending our energies trying to make others lose - and fearing that they will make us lose?
Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.
Yes, it's funny, isn't it? You try to do what's best for the people you love, and you just end up in trouble for your efforts.
I didn't want to be known as the reality-show star trying to be an actress, so I kept a lot of the failed auditions to myself.
My father was always talking about God, and I idolized my father, so I'd spend hours trying to have mental telepathy with God.
If you don't think God's love for the unlovable is amazing, go try to love someone who hates you for a day. See if that helps.
A fair and just society offers equality of opportunity to all. But it cannot promise, and should not try to enforce, sameness.
Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.
When you pick up a script you want to do you generally have a theme you're trying to work with, and then it expands from that.
What I was trying to construct was relative symmetry, where it seems clear that the shapes have arrived through consideration.
I just like to keep challenging myself, keep it varied. It's a craft, and I'm constantly trying to learn and get better at it.
Hillary's trying to appear downhome. Earlier today she was sitting on the front porch of a general store whittling a pantsuit.
My biggest fear always is that I’ll photograph an idea rather than a person, so I try to be quite sensitive to how people are.
No one's playing records anymore, so find your favorite and frame it, then get rid of the rest - try selling or donating them.
I am a believer in trying to treat people properly and trying to respond and making sure that I find the time to be courteous.
I don't like religion very much. I think it's all about people trying to be very certain about things that are very uncertain.
The first thing is we got to make sure we try to keep guns out of the wrong hands. And I want comprehensive background checks.
The goal for me is to have one track just flow into the next one and you can just get lost in it. I try to find that fluidity.
I try not to cry, in general. The experience of crying is so emotional and uncomfortable for me that I don't like to go there.
I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.
I always try to take projects I'm genuinely interested and passionate about versus just trying to take projects for the money.
I try to read everything that I can about myself because Saddam Hussein didn't read his reviews and he thought he was winning!
When I hear Sam Cooke's 'A Change Is Gonna Come', it frustrates me because no matter how hard I try, I can never be that good.
I'm trying to entice people, and sometimes my information is very hard hitting. So I've always wanted to have a soft approach.
Thanksgiving, you know - Thanksgiving - it's like we didn't even try to come up with a tradition. The tradition is we overeat.
Every artist has a central story to tell, and the difficulty, the impossible task, is trying to present that story in pictures
But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.
Try this New Year's resolution: I won't check my phone, my tablet, or my computer until I've first read a chapter in my Bible.
The one who was born a genius can't win against the one who tries, and the one who tries can't win against the one who enjoys.
Whenever I go to New York I try to soak up as much live music as I can, including as many nights at the opera as I can manage.
I want to try to not be the child that had to go through too much too young. I want to be who I am now and not who I was then.
I can always grow a little bit, and try to do something different. So I'm always looking for what's out there - the potential.
Through . . . lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. . . . Lies become an inhibitor in your relationship . . . .
I'll always try to go the safest route, but once someone strikes you or puts their hands on you then it's on, at least for me.
It's a great feeling to do what you want and do what you love. Everyone should try it sometime if you're not doing it already.