Trying Quotes - Page 382

Fast tempo is essential for success; do it, fix it, try it!

Ninety to ninety-five percent of people will withdraw to the comfort zone when what they try doesn't work. Only that small percentage, 5 or 10 percent, will continually improve themselves; they will continually push themselves out into the zone of discomfort, and these are always the highest performers in every field.

Everyday, it's about building a practice that enables you to try and forget that you're afraid.

I try and make non-fiction films that feel like fiction, so I'm always looking for the subtext and that's what really excites me.

When I do research, I cast my net very widely and then snatch what feels right out of that. Occasionally I'll read a specific book for a specific book, but usually I'm trying to increase my general understanding.

Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.

You know that for sure because Godzilla was killed by an ordinary missile. He spends most of that film dodging them but then the Army finally gets a bead on him and they shoot a missile at him and he blows up and dies, and that's not what Godzilla is. Godzilla is supposed to be a thing that you can't possibly kill, no matter how hard you try.

I auditioned at the Radisson in Knoxville, and I just did what I always do. I just try to believe what I'm doing.

I guess it's interesting trying to feel someone's vibe on a track that you've never met before.

When I was coming up, we weren't trying to get a hit or get paid, we were just trying to do our thing. The only thing we were really trying to do was to be recognized for our originality.

What I have now are good problems of trying to decide and what I really want to do is good work next. My phone's ringing a lot more and I've got nine lines so when it doesn't ring, it's very frustrating.

Milton Hope led the singing of Happy Birthday ... He would say, 'Keep it sweet and short and don't try to be funny.'

It's always disappointing when people decide for one reason or another that they don't like your work anymore, but you can't try to please people, because then you're just going to be doing - you'll never live it down, y'know it'll always be dogging you around - you might be being a fake about the whole thing.

I just try to understand that tomorrow is another day.

There was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in things present.

I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.

If someone gave me the chance to create something, I put myself into it. I just want to try to do something that will last forever and that won't leave people saying, 'Gee, it could have been better, it could've been this, it could've been that.'

Don't be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.

I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.

If you don't know how to meditate at least try to spend some time every day just sitting.

But you talk to most filmmakers and it is six, seven, eight years trying to get things off the ground. It is incredible really.

We're not at the point of trying to stop global warming; it's too late for that. We're trying to keep it from becoming a complete and utter calamity

The billion people who wake up every day trying to figure out if they have enough food to eat won't be at Davos.

Whatever I do, I attempt to do it fully. I try, and don't always succeed, to be thorough. There are musicians who do not know their worth, and if they knew it at one time, it has eluded them. I know my worth. You try not to dwell in the past.

Well, I really don't know what the secret of success is but I can tell you that the secret of failure is to try to please everyone.