Trying Quotes - Page 228

I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.

What we've been trying to do is difficult. You know it's difficult to win one, to win two. Madness to win three. But to try and come back to win it again should be impossible really.

A really important part of competition is coming back, trying to do it better the second time than you did the first.

You might want to think twice before you try to use a man's conscience against him. It may turn out he doesn't have one.

Indulgence is emptiness. I have proved the limits of food and frivolity. There is no real fulfillment in meaningless rushes of pleasure. You try to conceal the emptiness with more extravagance, only to find the thrills becoming less satisfying and more fleeting. Most pleasures are best as a seasoning, not the main course. However you try to disguise it, you end up feeding without being nourished.

I will not know that day has come because I will not stop trying.

When jumping is the sole option, you jump, and try to make it work.

I don't get the animosity when someone tells a joke that you don't like. Whereas if someone made a dish that you don't like if you went to a restaurant, you would either try another dish or you just don't go back to that restaurant. But you don't say like, "I did not like the hamburger here. This restaurant should be shut down. It should be banned from making hamburgers. No one else should have these hamburgers." And everyone else is like, "No, you wouldn't do that."

Once you get older, you get a little closer to yourself, intimate. I've always been very aware of that, more conscious of who I am, how I fit in the thing as opposed to trying to emulate someone else. Though, sometimes I try to emulate De Niro all the time, who is someone I could never be.

I just look for characters that have dimensions. If I don't see it written on the page, then I try to put it in there somehow. You don't want to play the same role twice.

If a player is trying to intimidate a skilled player on your team, what do we want? We want our skilled players playing, so we shouldn't be doing that.

We have a society that's trying to make sure that nobody gets any adventures because adventures are dangerous and danger is bad.

It's a strange thing, you have said it thousands of times I am sure...you will never know what you can do until you try. However the sad truth is, that most people never try anything until they know they can do it.

CAFE is like trying to cure obesity by requiring clothing manufacturers to make smaller sizes.

Fear will give us a reason not to try; hope will give us a reason not to listen.

Human progress depends on unreasonable people. Reasonable people accept the world as they meet it; unreasonable people persist in trying to change it. Well, I'm Bob and I'm an unreasonable person. And if TED is anything, it is the olympics of unreasonable people.

Well, I try my best to be just like I am, But everybody wants you to be just like them, They sing while you slave and I just get bored

Everything tries to be round.

I try to do my absolute best for the people who come see me play.

Look, when you are starting to put something together, you want the pudding to come out good. You're trying to put in the right ingredients.

I think if you can take care of yourself, and then maybe try to take care of someone else, that's sort of how you're supposed to live.

I try to take large, general questions that are difficult to resolve and break them down into small, very specific questions that have clear answers.

It's an experiment, and it's probably good to have a couple states try it out to see before you make that national policy.

I could name about a dozen paths, and you'd like to have a whole bunch of research on all those paths, and then, eventually, at least four to five companies with really significant financing try and get to big scale, going down and really trying to prove it out.

More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.