Trying Quotes - Page 331

So when I was 24, someone suggested to me that I was bipolar, and I thought that was ridiculous. I just thought he was trying to get out of treating me. But he was also responding to the chaotic nature of my life.

Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.

I'm not saying certain illnesses don't come from genetic baggage and all that. It would be too simplistic to summarize and make it all about emotion, but yeah, so many times, I've been to doctors trying to pinpoint what it was exactly and finally it just went away.

It's heartbreaking but we're trying to get over it. As disappointed as we were, I think that somehow you have to find a way to think that it happened for a reason.

Don't become a fashion victim is what I'm trying to say.

Love who you are, and you're good enough, and you don't need to feel like you need to apologize for who you are, and you don't need to feel like you need to try to be someone you're not.

There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her.

I have wisdom. I feel love. I live in the present and I try to present a dimension that brings harmony and healing.

If guys try to make a bigger company for the sake of size, they don't create value in most cases.

In my work theres always been a duality between sticking to reality and trying to stage things.

I've been playing piano my whole life but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made really. Try to imagine if you'd loved paintings your whole life but had never painted one. My aspiration now is just to understand. I don't have professional pretensions. I've learned so much. So many things I've been doing in the visual, two-dimensional painting world parallel many of the inner working of music - how intervals resolve into each other, harmonic rhythm, tonal things - there's a whole vocabulary that overlaps. Sometimes people see pianos in my works - that I never think.

We have overwhelming evidence that available information plus analysis does not lead to knowledge. The management science team can properly analyse a situation and present recommendations to the manager, but no change occurs. The situation is so familiar to those of us who try to practice management science that I hardly need to describe the cases.

Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop.

Joy bursts in our lives when we go about doing the good at hand and not trying to manipulate things and times to achieve joy.

Feelings, and feelings, and feelings. Let me try thinking instead.

The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose.

We have been helping, trying to help Afghanistan in many ways, even from the beginning of... the beginnings of the '20s, 1920s, when he we were fighting our own national struggle.

Simply put; I'm trying to see what I can get done with the horse without him being troubled about doing it.

Once I start something, I always finish it. They had been trying to get X-Men made for 30 years and they thought maybe if I got involved, it might actually happen.

No one predicts the future. No one tries to.

Trying to make bits uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet. The sooner people accept this, and build business models that take this into account, the sooner people will start making money again.

I've been accused of being a little pedantic here and there, but I don't buy that criticism. I'm telling it like I see it. You don't have to buy it. You don't have to like it. You don't have to listen to it at all. I'm not trying to convince people of things, other than the fact that I'm trying to make as vivid as I can my own feelings and experiences.

I'm trying to figure out the trick of working to live as opposed to living to work, but I don't know if I've quite stumbled upon it just yet.

Right when I was I was diagnosed my husband and I were actively trying for a family, which is heartbreaking for us both.

Every time I open the paper, there's some symphony orchestra collapsing somewhere in the United States. What the hell is going on? And then you find out that the board members try to run these things as businesses.