Trying Quotes - Page 286

We don't have to make the bible relevant-it is-but we have to show its relevance. What is irrelevant, in my opinion, is our style of communicating it. We are tending to still use the style from 50 years back that doesn't match who we are trying to reach today.

I try to be respectful of how other people think, I try to listen to what they're saying.

The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.

I don't have to do emails, I don't have to protect myself about anything, I don't have any chain of command. My job is just to try and give everybody the tools that they need to express themselves.

Stop bitching and try again.

I try to make songs visual and tactile to kind of put you into the action.

I'm trying to change the way people approach knowledge and information in general. I think that to try to own knowledge, to try to control whether people are allowed to use it, or to try to stop other people from sharing it, is sabotage.

I am kinder to my body. I don't try to prove anything to myself or others. I keep thinking about the need to go slower, gentler and maintain a sense of humor about it all.

Don't try to take on a new personality; it doesn't work.

Normally my process is to sit in a room and read a script and talk about it and ask questions and just create a dialogue. That goes all the way through shooting. All kinds of thoughts and ideas can find their way in there. As long as you're all on - We're just all trying to tell the story so my job as a director is just to find out what this film wants to be based on, it's just words on a page at some point but then it just needs to go to some level of believable storytelling. I'm discovering the film as I make it, to some degree.

You can tell other people all the alibis you want. I don't mind. But to yourself try to be honest.

I've been trying to figure out for at least the last 10 years how to force myself into something more risky.

As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors trying to make the audience love them, being over emotional.

I am not surprised that they show no intention to follow in my footsteps, although if I had a second chance myself, I would certainly try to repeat my present career.

Being away from her is torturous and I'd much prefer to be with her. So I just try to get out of here as soon as I can. I make sure I do my job real well and fast.

It's very important to try to inculcate into children moral rules, such as "do as you would be done by."

I am trying to call attention to the elephant in the room that everybody is too polite - or too devout - to notice: religion, and specifically the devaluing effect that religion has on human life.

Trying to block women from getting access to contraception or defunding Planned Parenthood is completely nonsensical from a policy standpoint.

It's pretty hard to have faith when everybody is trying to lock you up.

If you love what you do and if you believe in what you do, others will share your enthusiasm. Passionate people find their way to the Virgin Group, and when they do, we snap them up and try to keep them within the family.

You never know with these things when you're trying something new what can happen. This is all experimental.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

If you don't succeed at first, there's no need for the F word (Failure). Pick yourself up and try, try again.

Well, I'm somebody who is just living ...living life, and if I get frustrated by something, then I like to try to put it right.

I am prepared to try anything once.