Trying Quotes - Page 196

Actors are observers. They're trying to have an understanding of human sensibility. And how do you have that accurate observation if you regard yourself as someone of great importance? When you're the one constantly being observed, because they view you as a celebrity? It's all wrong.

The principle I adhere to when directing, is that I make good use of everything my staff creates. Even if they make foregrounds that don't quite fit with my backgrounds, I never waste it and try to find the best use for it.

In the simplest of terms, what we are doing in Korea is this: We are trying to prevent a third world war.

The thing about photography is that every day is a new day, even if you are working on the same story, because every day you have got a chance to correct what you did the day before, and try to take it a bit further or a bit back.

Sometimes the most helpful thing you can do is to stop trying to be helpful.

Try to focus on the things that you do have instead of obsessing over things you don't

It usually takes me 20 to 90 minutes to write a song because once I start, I don't stop. I like when it's really organic, so I try to knock it out in one shot.

You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something.

A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula.

If you win, fine, if you don't, you try again next year.

By trying to understand everything, everything makes me dream

I try not to define myself. Other people are going to do that for you anyway.

I try not to think about the drums themselves. If I do, I'll end up hitting myself in the head with a drumstick, or sustaining some weird injury.

Somehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos.

In trying to become 'objective,' Western culture made 'objects' of things and people when it distanced itself from them, thereby losing 'touch' with them.

My whole thing is quality of life. . .It must always be easy and low-maintenance and stress-free, and that means not trying to fit too much in. I don’t ever want to be in a hurry. I want to enjoy the moments.

I try to feed my hunger rather than my appetite.

The thing that happened in Washington -- it happened. All you can do is just grow from it. That took a toll on me. That was probably -- I think if I could've bounced mentally out of that situation faster than I did, I would probably still be in the NBA. But since I couldn't understand why they were trying to treat me like that, I basically gave up. I just didn't want to be a part of it anymore.

The more people that learn about you, even if you're an underdog, then you can come under fire a lot and the more attention you get and the more threatening or dangerous you appear to people. And the more people try to knock you down.

We are trying to make the world a better place, but that is not necessarily what we accomplish. Many of the problems which preoccupy us are basically insoluble.

You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.

I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.

If you're a Bosnian and suddenly you get attacked by the Serbs, there's just one way of getting rid of your opponents. It's taking revenge and trying to fight as hard as you can.

I have no understanding as to why you wouldn't try to make what you're passionate about work for you.

I try to work with God as a partner.