Trying Quotes - Page 34

Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.

I've got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like to do a guitar trio record next - since The Police I've mostly made records with keyboards.

It is very easy to take for granted the phenomenon that we are each alive, but we must try not to.

I think there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One is trying to say everything that can be said for the things that one loves while there's still time.

The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.

Going back into the negative past to find happiness is like trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear

I wanted them to be diverse. The whole underlying principle of the X-Men was to try to be an anti-bigotry story to show there's good in every person.

I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.

I just don't deal with the negativity. I can't get involved in that side of it. I don't understand it, and you can't let it take away from your life and what you are trying to do.

We never do great things without trying.

Sometimes when it looks like I'm deep in thought I'm just trying not to have a conversation with people.

Breathe and don't try to be perfect.

Behind every problem, there is a question trying to ask itself... Behind every question there is an answer trying to reveal itself. Behind every answer there is an action trying to take place. And behind every action there is a way of life trying to be born.

We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.

As an entrepreneur, you can always find a solution if you try hard enough.

I refuse to follow the rules where society tries to control people with low self esteem.

What I see is trying to make sure that everybody thinks you have more than what you actually have. What’s the point if you actually don’t have it? If you don’t have it, then you don’t have it. Have what you have. Enjoy that . . . The craft is everything. Don’t be afraid of not being the wealthiest person in the room. Be the smartest person in the room. Be the slickest person in the room. Be the most creative person in the room. Be the most entertaining person in the room. Just be in the room.

Every once in a while you must go to cash, take a break, take a vacation. Don't try to play the market all the time. It can't be done, too tough on the emotions.

For me, when I get knocked down, I really try to get back up and go at it again. I don't like to give up.

The biggest mistake young designers make is that they try to make their advertising look like advertising

I try to remind myself that we are never promised anything, and that what control we can exert is not over the events that befall us but how we address ourselves to them.

To my mind losing is always better than never trying, because you can never tell what may happen.

I feel like I'm a trendsetter. I try to always stay on the edge of everything I do, whether it be music, fashion, film. I just like to stay abreast of what's going on. What's going on in the street and what's going on in the hood I put in my music and I feel like a lot of people follow that.

If they try to rush me, I always say, I've only got one other speed and it's slower.

Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.