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For me, self-gratification eventually took a backseat to trying to do something collaborative with other people, to trying to make something new.
Failing sucks. But it's better than the alternative." "Which is?" "Not even trying." Now he did look at me, straight on. "Life's short, you know?
We're going to try and recruit the very best people we can and produce the best papers we can, and publish them to the highest standards we can .
We are trying to persuade all the Iraqi opposition to come breathe freedom in Iraq and use liberated Kurdistan as a base for our common struggle.
For me, what is most important is the element of surprise. If I can surprise you with every film of mine, that is exactly what I am trying to do.
Without technique it is impossible to reach the top in chess, and therefore we all try to borrow from Capablanca his wonderful, subtle technique.
As an artist, I try not to sound the same as others. Or even as myself. It's a constant, flowing web of influence. And information. And retweets.
We've invested millions of dollars in tourism. Now they're trying to industrialize and pollute the ocean. It doesn't make any sense to me at all.
I love you just the way you are but you don't see you like I do. You shouldn't try so hard to be perfect. Trust me, perfect should try to be you.
About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.
I’m trying to be the Jay-Z of comedy one day. I don’t know if there’s any comedy moguls out there, but I would love to be the first comedy mogul.
I'm not really much of a prankster, but I've definitely been pranked. I never really liked being pranked, so I generally try not to prank people.
There is no more irritating fellow than the man who tries to settle an argument about communism, or justice, or liberty, by quoting from Webster.
Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didn't know that at first.
Writing by hand is a way of letting mystery into my writing. But I'm constantly trying to figure out how to do this job. It's a work in progress.
I am trying to teach my children to feel a responsibility for their fellow human beings and a sense of connection with ... the world around them.
We get more dangerous as we accumulate knowledge, and that's both a sadness and something to control, try to learn to live with, make terms with.
He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment.
To me, if you're trying to impress a girl, get a date, they're gonna like that more because you're a confident guy. That's what it comes down to.
Until we learn to love others as ourselves, it's difficult to blame broken people who desperately try to affirm themselves when no one else will.
What are you doing?" she asked, trying to raise herself. "First, I thought I'd show you what a pity it would be if they cut off my wicked tongue.
With software, you really can replicate and do a lot of very real and active development in parallel, and actually try it out and see what works.
Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness. There's love and emotion trying to express itself, but at the time, it just ends up being awkward.
There's always that sense of because we're so racially defined, if you're trying to cross the boundaries you don't fit into any particular space.
I speak in reality. I don't try to hide anything from anybody, and that's the most dangerous thing about our music that parents are so afraid of.
Try and keep on trying until that which seems difficult becomes possible and that which seems only possible becomes habit and a real part of you.
When you're young, you try to meet that expectation that people have of you. It can be very stressful. But with time it's become less of problem.
Here's why I like geek culture: People like what they like because they like it. They're not trying to fit into any mainstream likes or dislikes.
Grace is sufficient even though we huff and puff with all our might to try and find something or someone that it cannot cover. Grace is enough...
People who try to define their spirituality sometimes are annoying, 'cause the spirit is something you feel and let guide you and humbly respect.
I'm not sure anyone's life turns out exactly the way they imagine. All we can do is to try to make the best of it. Even when it seems impossible.
I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.
When you're on MTV Asia, you're like royalty. When you walk down the streets of the Philippines or Indonesia, everyone wants to try to touch you.
A saint is a person who gives of themself without asking for anything in return. That's how simple it is to be a saint. Try it! Try being a saint
It's not that we're trying to avoid death; we're trying to enjoy our lives fully, to wring every wonderful drop out of life that we possibly can.
As soon as I stopped trying to control everything that came out of my mouth and every picture that came out, that's when I became so much happier.
Everyone says corruption is everywhere, but for me it seems strange to say that and then not try to put the people guilty of that corruption away.
I do try to pay attention to new bands and what's happening within the scene. I try to make sure I give everything a listen - even if I loathe it.
Keeping a diary is advanced-level living. I spend way too much time trying not to curl up in the corner like a giant fetus & weep to keep a diary.
I hope you find someone you can't live without.I really do. And I hope you never have to know what it's like to have to try and live without them.
The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I think I'm doing.
My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.
The world is filled with people who are no longer needed -- and who try to make slaves of all of us -- and they have their music and we have ours.
When you shoot a film, you have very little time to waste, and I try to go into the character as soon as possible and stay there as much as I can.
Risks are a measure of people. People who won't take them are trying to preserve what they have. People who do take them often end up having more.
There are massive efforts on the part of the internet's corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.
If I go back to the beginning, I could start it over again. I could go line by line; try and find a shorter way. I could try to make it... better.
Last time I was recording, I was trying to loop on the computer, but it's really difficult because it's really different from looping on hardware.
Not that that mystical stuff's necessarily true: The only thing that's capital-T true is that you get to decide how you're going to try to see it.
Trying to run away is never the answer to being a fully human. Running away from the immediacy of our experience is like preferring death to life.