Trying Quotes - Page 65

If you look into the way that materials are used in an ecological system you'll notice that you'll find that there is no waste. The waste of one organism becomes food for another and everything's recycled in an ecological system whereas in our human built environment there's a throughput system. We use something then we throw it away... We have to imitate nature and try to re-use everything we make as human beings or recycle them - when we cannot re-use or recycle them we should try to reintegrate them back into the natural environment.

That is the brilliant thing about the millennials. They're not obsessing about, "Hey, there is not going to be a job for me" - they're trying to take advantage of how good a life they can have without having to create so much nominal income.

Don't cheapen Jesus's sacrifice by trying to pay him back

It’s interesting how people try to redefine God to their liking. They bring him down to their level so they can understand him, then they reject him because he is too much like them.

You try to play the song better than you had before.

Problems can only be solved by the people who have them. You have to try and coax them and love them into seeing ways in which they can help themselves.

War is a foolish, childish, animalistic, unthinking, unintelligent way of trying to accomplish a purpose.

I want to make people laugh and I want to try to encourage world peace.

Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!

Colours have their own distinctive beauty that you have to preserve, just as in music you try to preserve sounds. It is a question of organization, of finding the arrangement that will keep the beauty and freshness of the colour

It is the meaning of what my life has been since a youth - to try to fight for the dignity and the freedom of my own people.

For me, personally, when I'm afraid of something - when you're afraid of something, normally you try to go away, you try to avoid it. Instead of avoiding it, to overcome your fear, I believe you need to embrace it.

It's a never-ending process to try to make yourself the best person you possibly can.

And that taught me you can't have anything, you can't have anything at all. Because desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it - but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you've got the inconsequential part, but the glitter that made you want it is gone.

The partisan wants to change the law, the criminal break it; the anarch wants neither. He is not for or against the law. While not acknowledging the law, he does try to recognize it like the laws of nature, and he adjusts accordingly.

By trying to grab fulfillment everywhere, we find it nowhere.

I'm very romantic when I masturbate. Sometimes I light a candle...then I try and shoot it out. It's like a carnival.

[My work is] maybe about me maybe not wanting to be me and wanting to be all these other characters. Or at least try them on.

I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.

The only way you improve is to try new things.

I think that I'd like to try to be a superwoman and have kids and work, so we'll see if I can actually accomplish that.

A woman asking 'Am I good? Am I satisfied?' is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.

If you're a fan of hurting others, talking down to, or trying to bring others down, then never call yourself a fan of mine.

How can I be sure I've succeeded, if I can't remember what I was trying to do

That's always been my philosophy: I try to just be as straightforward as possible, and then I don't really have to question what I said or regret anything.