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I wouldn't consciously pursue trying to make something for the charts. It's just not in my scope now. I'd rather stick needles in my eyes.
How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.
Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and try to be content with that.
I'm a very tactile learner, so I need analog index cards, moving them all about, trying out various sequences for the book's architecture.
When Christ possesses the will He keeps it fixed. The trouble comes when we take matters out of His hand and try to handle them ourselves.
I just want my kid to not hate and to be a good human. That's what you try to do. You hope that they are the next evolution of your thing.
Universities are very clarifying places of power, because everyone is focused on trying to figure out exactly what to do with their lives.
I'm just trying to figure out the right balance between making fans feel good and also maintaining some dignity for myself in the process.
You've got to take responsibility and to do everything in your power to get results. Hopefully players look at that and try and follow it.
As an actor, you try to bring as much of yourself to a part to try and create a feeling of authenticity and emotional truth and resonance.
If you try to turn me against Lissa one more time the stories are going to be about you bleeding because I'll have ripped your throat out!
Maybe language is kind, giving us these double meanings. Maybe it's trying to teach us a lesson, that we can always be two things at once.
We'd been trying to touch the sky from the bottom of the ocean. I realized that if we boosted one another, maybe we'd get a little closer.
I just continue to be kind of disappointed that people don't realize that and try and diversify the kind of work they are doing in comics.
Woe to the man who tries to stretch the imagination of man He shall be mocked he shall be scourged by the blinkered guardians of morality.
What I would tell young players is that as you get older, the best thing you can do is try to have other interests and have opportunities.
I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside.
Meanwhile the 3 a.m. drunks of the world would lay in their beds, trying in vain to sleep, and deserving that rest, if they could find it.
I'm a little bit of a geek - I have to be the first person to get new things when they come out. I always want to buy and try new gadgets.
What I admired most about him [Bobby Fischer] was his ability to make what was in fact so difficult look easy to us. I try to emulate him.
Controversy is always a beautiful thing. I love controversy and I try to fan it as much as I can without having my husband's head pop off!
Anytime there's an actual grassroots movement that isn't funded by people trying to create a grassroots movement, I find that interesting.
Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. ---in Good Housekeeping
So many will try to destroy me. So many, over and over, coming in periods of greatness. But in this period, I cannot be broken: GAGAKLEIN.
I just like writing lyrics. I find a little satisfaction in performing live, making records. But primarily, I just try to write every day.
I never start a section of the story without knowing how it will end. I also consciously try to shape the story as though it were a movie.
Try becoming a person people want to be with rather than conforming yourself to the false identity of what you conceive their ideal to be.
Steven Spielberg makes Minority Report with the newest digital technology; other directors seem to be trying to make their movies from it.
We can’t change the world. The only thing we can change is ourselves, by trying to get a better understanding of our own messed-up wiring.
I'm not a very intentional writer. I try to be as unintentional as possible. What I basically try to do is invite the zeitgeist in to tea.
In terms of trying to re-create an image, I think that's a waste of time. I have no interest in doing that. The decisions I made are done.
Never was I power thirsty, or trying to control everyone. I believed in educating everyone, so they could all get to the position I was at.
Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying.
I feel like Harriet Tubman, except I am trying to free people through underground music, to free themselves creatively and inspirationally.
I don't have any option. I'm not going to be less gay or more pretty. I can't try to have less personality or fewer controversial opinions.
The principal role of the President of the United States is the security of the country and participating in trying to stabilize the world.
Whenever anybody called Nelson Mandela a saint, he would say: "If by saint you mean a sinner who is trying to be better, then I'm a saint."
What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
Most of the time people are aiming so low on television. They're trying to reach that common denominator, especially on network television.
Christ always had a passion for whatever He was doing. That's how I try to define myself as an athlete. That's the example I try to follow.
If someone is feeling out of sorts or detached it's a great time to bring them in and restate why we are here and what we are trying to do.
Imitate. Don’t be shy about it. Try to get as close as you can. You'll never get all the way, and the separation might be truly remarkable.
I did try when I wasn't doing the singing to do as much comedy as I could because I thought with Comic Relief you are duty bound to anyway.
I didn't fill it up with movies every time because I was trying to just film one damn movie, but that's the heartache of independent films.
If you see yourself as trying to beat the mountain, eventually the mountain will win. You don't conquer mountains, you cooperate with them.
My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone, but agnosticism about everything.
(President Nixon,) in the face of a vote to impeach he might try, as "commander-in-chief", to use military forces to keep himself in power.
Pretty much every time I try something different or do something in front of a live audience, I truly think they might throw peanuts at me.
I try to shrug it off as a minor annoyance that whenever I do something successful, every capitalist out there wants a piece of the action.
Julius Peppers is a beast, man. I dont know how many pounds he outweighs me by... I still try to do things like him to make my game better.