Trying Quotes - Page 378

The Path is not far from man. When men try to pursue a course, which is far from the common indications of consciousness, this course cannot be considered The Path.

My job is to try to advance American foreign policy, to try to advance the president's agenda on democracy and human rights.

It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails when you're trying to make a plan work.

Sometimes there's a general arc that you want to try and get better the longer you do something.

If you're playing someone who's got marital problems, you have to play someone who's trying not to have marital problems. So, you've got to get into the problem first.

[Rumi] is trying to get us to feel the vastness of our true identity... like the sense you might get walking into a cathedral.

I try to make sure that, when I'm writing, I don't put too much Cody in it. But I don't want to lose it either.

The theater's a live thing, and film is, to some extent, a discipline where you're putting everything together and trying to execute something exactly. You do it away from people and then you present it at the end.

Murray sounds like a blindfolded man riding a unicycle on the rim of the pit of doom, the men actually facing the danger are all so taciturn that you might as well try interviewing the cars themselves.

I'd rather stay away from the limelight. Not because I'm trying to be a good boy and all that stuff. I just love quiet.

The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms.

When we try to describe one person to another …, what do we say? Not usually how or what that person ate, rarely what he wore, only occasionally how he managed his job—no, what we tell is what he said and, if we are good mimics, how he said it. We apparently consider a person's spoken words the true essence of his being.

Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way - how many pleasing things are done for you.

While archetypes may emanate through us for short periods of time, in what we call numinous experience, no woman can emanate an archetype continuously. Only the archetype itself can withstand such projections such as ever-able, all giving, eternally energetic. We may try to emulate these, but they are ideals, not achievable by humans, and not meant to be. Yet the trap requires that women exhaust themselves trying to achieve these unrealistic levels. To avoid the trap, one has to learn to say 'Halt' and 'Stop the music,' and of course mean it.

Maybe if the right person floats into your life, you have to jump in with both feet and try to make it work before the tide turns.

In my book, I was trying to get into my own soul.

People are always trying to find the next groovy thing, and it hasn't gone back to painting... I'd like it to go back to painting. I'm sick of all this photography and video. There's so much of it, it's almost annoying.

I've had the pleasure and the great luck to work with some incredible actors over the years and you have to observe and learn and take something from it and try and become better yourself.

In terms of trying to improve as an actor, for me it's always important to return to the stage. After doing a piece of theater for a prolonged period, I can think I must have surely improved in some way as an actor - you must be fitter than you were prior to doing it. For me, theater is very, very important in keeping things fresh and dangerous.

I get paid by the year, and I try to earn my money.

I was always trying, even in pure action movies, to find what was sensitive about the character more than the pure action.

I keep trying to train myself to stop saying 'filmmaker' and start saying 'storyteller.' We're telling stories.

Men, all men, were always trying to get hold of me, you know.

I think everybody who really wants to change things has to allow themselves to be angry in a constructive way, and you have to fully understand the thing you're trying to change. We really need to get serious about this now; there needs to be real, effective programs. I think there needs to be a little bit more strategy involved and a little more realism, to be pragmatic and realistic, looking at the way we as women contribute to the problem. Once the second half of the population stops doing it, it's going to end.

In Paris, I really do like to try and do nothing... but that's impossible.