Trying Quotes - Page 480

The role of the board is advice and consent. If the CEO does not lay out a clear strategy and tries to get the board to set one, it will usually end in disaster.

If you have several ideas that all seem pretty good, work on the one that you think about, when you're not trying to think about work.

If you pivot, do it fully and with conviction. The worst thing is to try to do a bit of the old and the new-it's hard to kill your babies.

Developing a personal connection with anyone you're trying to do a big deal with is really important.

The second part of how to hire: try not to.

Stay focused and don't try to do too many things at once. Care about execution quality.

One of the great and terrible things about starting a start up is that you get no credit for trying.

If you're going to write a memoir, try to be as honest and open as you can.

When I am writing novels I don't read a lot of novels so I try to catch up in-between.

So Thomas Pynchon wants a private life and no photographs and nobody to know his home address. I can dig it, I can relate to that (but, like, he should try it when it's compulsory instead of a free-choice option).

Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment.

The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story, whereas an autobiography tries to be a full account of a life.

I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I inhabit it, I am trying to learn from it.

I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.

If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around you. It seems redundant to make a lot of noise about something when, in fact, there it is. But if someone tries to remove it, it becomes important for you to formulate your own defenses of it.

It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying to look at my books in terms of my life.

The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that and then I put it out there and say to you, "What do you think?" I hope that you think well of it, obviously.

The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.

Try to figure out who you really are and not who you want other people to think you are.

Sometimes when we try to get outside of ourselves, to be like someone else, you miss out on so many beautiful things that you don't know that you are because you're looking at someone else.

Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.

I dont have the self-discipline for diets; I break rules I set for myself, so I try and eat more healthily, juice more, and avoid sugar.

I'm an actor. I'm trying to be the character and do what they're doing.

You try to get rid of the things that are weighing you down.

If the constitution is not changed, then we will try to bring it down either before the referendum through the law by filing a suit in international or local courts, if we can, challenging the legitimacy of this constitution and the National Assembly.