Trying Quotes - Page 665

It's not important - it's not necessary that you read everything. What is necessary is that you care about things that you read and that you find something that really matters to you and you try and make something like that.

You can seek clarity, you can seek warmth, you can try to make something for lasting. You can pack something in salt so that it's well made and you can hope that it outlasts time. But, ultimately that's not up to you.

Emily Dickinson calls previous poets her kinsmen of the shelf. You can always be consoled by your kinsmen of the shelf and you can participate in poetry by going to them and by trying to make something worthy of them.

Our sense that things are transient, that everything is passing and then if you want to save something from the endless flux of experience and the world's movement, you have to set down a stake and try and make something that will last.

Many people persist in the wrong job, trying year after year to get good at what they're bad at or at what they dislike. Like marrying the wrong person, working in the wrong job is a prescription for a life of toil-and-groan.

Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things.

I think the environmental movement has failed in that it's used the stick too much; it's used the apocalyptic tone too much; it hasn't sold the positive aspects of being environmentally concerned and trying to pull us out.

I try not to be too plot-heavy and to balance the dramatic with the comedic.

Many of the projects that we do that appear quite successful, it's actually often the second or third time we've given it a try.

I often try to think about, What sounds like a bad idea, but if you find the right plan of attack, it's actually a really good idea? I spend a lot of time really trying to systematically tackle problems from different angles.

A rather ugly thing starts happening: the playwright finds himself knocked down for works that quite often are just as good or better than the works he's been praised for previously. And a lot of playwrights become confused by this and they start doing imitations of what they've done before, or they try to do something entirely different, in which case they get accused by the same critics of not doing what they used to do so well.

Art should never try to be popular.

Women: We cannot love them all. But we must try.

Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.

I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.

People always try to put a title or a symbol on you. If you work in a bank, you are a banker. For me, they see a co-founder of Facebook.

To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen.

In the software business there are many enterprises for which it is not clear that science can help them; that science should try is not clear either.

I always, I would say, make sure that in my presentation I'll have what I want to do. I try and make it so interesting to my companions that they want to go, too. I don't have to twist any arms or make - you know - any great challenges available.

my mother insisted that I had to try things on to make sure they were becoming. Becoming what, I always asked.

For me what was very important was to try to capture the essence that might have existed behind the myth, the human essence of the character.

It is hard to try and find a rhythm when you're only out there for short spurts, but it's fine.

I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.

The phone conversation where I haven't had a smoke, it's like trying to talk without using adverbs.

Im not trying to stay in the same place and Im not trying to compete with whats currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, Im different and the music reflects that to some degree.