Trying Quotes
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As regards the presentation of musical ideas, obviously rules of order soon appeared. Such rules of order have existed since music has existed and since musical ideas have been presented... So we shall try to put our finger on the laws that must be at the bottom of this.
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I have never gone into a picture without first studying my characterization from all angles. I make a study of the fellow's life and try to learn everything about him, including the conditions under which he came into this world, his parentage, his environment, his social status, and the things in which he is interested. Then I attempt to get his mental attitude as much as possible.
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When I came back to it, we amicably separated from Warner Bros. I just picked up where I left off, trying to write the rest of this record. It took awhile to get out.
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In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.
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Why should we try for space travel? It cannot be a substance of any kind that can be expected to pay. It can only be something intangible, not involving haulage, which is at the same time more valuable. There is something like that: Knowledge.
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I love swimming in the darker seas, so even if I play a noble guy (well, like Lincoln for instance) I am pre-disposed to try and show the conflict; the regret; the less-than-perfect choices that any human faces. That's what I like and it seems to be what the camera likes to see me do.
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When a man is drowning, it may be better for him to try to swim than to thrash around waiting for divine intervention.
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I try to stay in the best physical shape that I can because I do most of my own stunts. It looks amazing if you can do it, but I dont advocate it because you always get injured.
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You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper.
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It drives me crazy when people say, "All we're trying to do is create entertainment." I feel like people go to movies for more than that.
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I do say things that I think will shock people. But I don't do things to shock people. I'm not trying to be the next Tupac, but I don't know how long I'm going to be on this planet. So while I'm here, I might as well make the most of it.
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The market has a simple way of whittling all excessive pride and overblown egos down to size. After all, the whole idea is to be completely objective and recognize what the marketplace is telling you, rather than try to prove that the thing you said or did yesterday or six weeks ago was right. The fastest way to take a bath in the stock market or go broke is to try to prove that you are right and the market is wrong.
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Don't go trying some new fashion Don't change the color of your hair. . . . I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
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What Clinton wants is to enforce trade policy, she wants to triple the number of trade enforcement officers, which will really matter in trying to level the playing field with South Korea and China and other countries that don't play it straight.
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I made clothes because I was looking for something that didn't exist. I had to try to create my own world.
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I was always the observer, trying to understand what was going on. I was always the new kid. Writing became my safe place.
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I'm trying to avoid having regrets about missing opportunities. That would be the worst thing. Like having an audience waiting, and not working hard enough, and coming out with a record that disappointed them.
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Often, failure is success trying to be born in a bigger way, and persistence helps you to experience that greater result.
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Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.
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I think what I try to do with all the naysayers, negative comments, or even people that think you can't do it, I'm trying very hard to use it as motivation and to add to that chip on my shoulder.
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Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist
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We have a lot of guests who are trying to take over the house and the owner of the house doesn't like it.
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Each mistake teaches you something new about yourself. There is no failure, remember, except in no longer trying. It is the courage to continue that counts.
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To me, life is so exciting. To me, life is always trying to beat someone in something competitive. It's kinda been my whole life.
