Trying Quotes - Page 287

If you're always looking at someone else, trying to imitate them, how can your natural gifts ever emerge?

American television is very much created by the writers, just the volume of it. The writers are so key. You're just trying to do something that serves that script. And in general, film isn't all about the script, really.

You blindfold yourself and spin around for 10 times and then open your eyes and try to chase it down.

As funny as watching a man in a wig trying to hold down a job on a helipad

Maybe they say they do but I don't think many actors really enjoy trying to do a Shakespearean play.

What makes the meaning of life is people, so you try to be good to people immediately around you and in your broader community. So a lot of my projects are about how I can affect the world in the hundreds of millions.

When you're playing such brilliant music every day, then the last thing you ever want to do is try to write something of your own that's crude and not as good.

Stop trying to make ‘fetch’ happen. It’s not going to happen!

Men rise through the ranks because of potential, but women have to prove themselves - while trying to have children and having no family leave.

I started working on trying to sound like June from the very beginning.

The modern film tries too hard to be real. Its techniques of illusion are so perfect that it requires no contribution from the audience but a mouthful of popcorn.

The refs are so confused themselves because there's so many rules. It's like, 'Oh my gosh I've never seen this many rules in my life.' And everybody's trying to govern this and justify that.

The world is already yours - why try to conquer it?

One day these will just be memories that I haveso I try to enjoy it as much as possible

I will say go into the world and try to find good people that feel genuine affection and love for you, and disregard everything else about their background.

But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds.

Providence has a wild, rough, incalculable road to its end, and it is of no use to try to whitewash its huge, mixed instrumentalities, or to dress up that terrific benefactor in a clean shirt and white neckcloth of a student in divinity.

Let it not be said by a future, forlorn generation that we wasted and lost our great potential because our despair was so deep we didn't even try, or because each of us thought someone else was worrying about our problems.

I try to find people who love and believe in what I do - and people I can respect because they do what I don't do. I've had to bring in financial people and put them in positions where they could tell me, "Ralph, let's not do that."

I try to design into a world that is constantly moving, and moving me.

The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.

Too many of Disney animators, and a lot try to emulate Disney, are trying to hit what they call quality levels. They're boring mannerisms.

I just try to keep rebounding the ball as much as I can. I just go out there and do what needs to be done and don't worry about my stats.

I always try to push myself, even more now because evidently I'm not doing something right. I'm trying to do the little things that count in practice to try and get my job back.

Be a witness of sex too. Don't be the controller of it. Don't try to forcibly bring it under control, remain a witness of it too. Just as you are a witness of everything else, remain a witness of sex too.