Trying Quotes
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Real philosophy is like trying to read an alarm system installation manual in Korean.
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Well. I'm probably not loving myself like I should, but I'm really trying.
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So many times, genuine health workers and genuine NGO folks are really just trying to help other humans in whatever capacity they can. But they are perceived as being CIA, and therefore, it blocks their effectiveness.
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I'm not just interested in the pictorial aspects of the landscape - see a pretty place and try to paint it - but in some way to manage it, manipulate it, or see what I can turn it into.
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I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein.
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The first interviews I gave were entirely unpleasant. You have people trying to trip you up with impolite questions that have nothing to do with the books. It's simply vulgar curiosity, and I won't have it.
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We all trying to get to where the suffering ends. In front of the Most High, being judged for our sins. Can't front for the Most High.
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We are all so busy and constantly trying to save time and balance everything.
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Trying to imagine what it's like to be someone else is never a substitute for actually living that way, for acknowledging the respect that we need to have for each other's experiences.
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The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone - by trying to act it out.
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I've spent a lot of time and money trying to keep my anger in control.
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I was too young to ever have fun in the '90s, so I'm always trying to relive what I wasn't a part of.
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If you're trying to turn me into something else? It's easy to see, I'm not down with that.
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I'm not disappointed (at not leading), I'm just trying my best.
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My whole life has been nothing but trying to find a way to take care of my mom and take care of my family as quickly as possible.
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I'm a self trained, autodidactic artist, so all I was ever trying to do was to draw as realistically as possible - but that's what comes out, because I don't really know how to draw! I think when I draw characters, I'm able to reduce them down to little marks that capture the most distinct elements of them.
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In previous roles, I have thought of my body as 'Betty's body,' and I try not to eat too many dinner rolls - please don't fire me! I'll make crazy choices from the neck up, but from the neck down, it's just me trying to suck it in. And in 'GLOW,' my whole body was required to do a function and not just to look as good as possible in a costume.
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What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?
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It's different being a director. I suppose, especially if it's a story you've written and you feel compelled to tell, in some ways it's a lot easier than acting because you're orchestrating the piece. As an actor, sometimes you're trying to second-guess what people want.
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Lack of clarity is the number-one time-waster. Always be asking, 'What am I trying to do? How am I trying to do it.
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If I were trying to impress a girl, I wouldn't get all super dressed because I would look like I was trying too hard. Instead, I would probably wear what I normally would.
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I've learnt that you tend most to make a div of yourself when you're trying to cover up the fact that you don't know what you're doing. And that simply saying 'I don't know what I'm doing' is a massive relief.
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You don't come to work going, 'Oh my God, I've got all this money I have to worry about'. You come to work going, 'I need more time and more money'. Because whatever resources you're given, you're always trying to push the envelope.
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If I get noticed for my individual performance, that's what happens. Other than that, I'm just trying to win the game.
