Trying Quotes - Page 224

It's good to leave your room super-messy when you're away. Whoever tries to break into your room will thought it has already been ransacked.

Keep it in tune with the times, but don't write with the specific purpose of trying to create a hit. If you're doing it strictly to make money, you're crazy. There are easier ways to make money.

China gets their oil from Libya. Why isn't China involved? They're going out spending billions of dollars a day on trying to take over the world economically. And we're spending billions and billions and billions of dollars on policing the world. Why isn't China involved with Libya? That - we don't get oil from Libya, China does.

Not too much, though there's a certain amount of rancour and bitterness when someone tries to fire you.

If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great as the best.

We don't think of ourselves as being perfectionists, really. To us it's more about desperately trying to have it sound more or less OK.

Nelson Mandela is a leader Barack Obama should try to emulate... He could start by spending 27 years in prison.

Most of the time, I do what I'm offered, but after I worked for it. I think I try much harder for the things that scare me and inspire me. The things that scare and inspire you are things that are different from what you did before.

Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.

I used to have this notion when I was a kid that the minute you said anything, it was no longer true. Of course it would have driven me crazy very rapidly if I hadn't dropped it, but there's something similar in what I'm trying to say. That once it's been done, you want to go someplace else. There's just some sense of straining.

Try this now. If you can't do it, you can do Headstand instead. If you don't want to do that, go home!

Get a scalpel, and practice just, say, cutting a piece of meat or something like that. You sort of learn how you want to hold your fingers, and that sort of thing, and try to become graceful when you operate.

Why should I try to make you believe the things I believe in?

One of the reasons I was so unhappy for years was because I never embraced my emotions and I was trying to stay in control.

There are many secrets; don’t try to resolve them all.

There is no sin in delegating. The sin is trying to do it all.

Our society nurtures the illusion that all the rewards go to the people who are perfect. But many of us are finding out that trying to be perfect is costly.

Instead of trying to conquer sin by working hard to change our actions, we can conquer sin by trusting Christ to change our affections.

I was trying to play as real possible - I wanted everything to be real.

Most of the artists were trying to make a living, trying to get laid, trying to figure out who they were. They weren't trying to change the world. That's what other people put on them. I knew all those people. I knew them all, intimately and well. Bob Dylan. I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I've known in my life. That's just the truth.

I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around.

I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age.

You do not have to be an economist to know that putting up the cost of employing someone is a pretty barking thing to do when you're trying to get out of a recession.

We're trying to teach artists that if you're smart enough to develop the material, then you're smart enough to market and promote the album too.

Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?