I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it
There is price you pay when you want freedom of speech. You must be willing to accept the good the bad and the ugly when trying something out of the box.
The only thing you're taking out of here is your spirit and your soul, so we need to be conscious to try and develop that part of ourselves, because we're all spiritual creatures.
You see how it is, my dear friends. There's no pleasing everyone. It's hopeless to even try, and the more you play the peacemaker, the less peaceful things become.
Competition pushes me to improve. If I see someone do a big trick, I try it.
Change happens not by trying to make yourself change, but by becoming conscious of what's not working.
And leadership then is about mobilizing and engaging the people with the problem rather than trying to anesthetize them so you can go off and solve it on your own.
There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer these questions and tell us they’re not really answerable. I draw on art and literature, and music in particular, because music is a wonderful example of something that’s in this world but not of this world. Great works of music speak to us from another realm even though they speak to us in ordinary physical sounds.
The pathetic thing about it is that many scientists are trying to prove the doctrine of evolution, which no science can do.
It's in the silence that your problems just dissolve. Try it. It really works.
When I was younger, I was worried about how others viewed me and if I was good enough. I realize now that you can't mold an image or try to be something that you are not. As far as being an actor is concerned, your work really speaks for itself.
If you try to serve people, it impresses them. If you try to impress people it irritates them.
But I'll try to immerse myself in as many of the formal characteristics of site as possible in the landscape.
The next time your core beliefs are challenged - try being curious instead of furious.
You fight, you try your best, but if you lose, you dont have to break five racquets and smash up the locker room. You can do those things, but when youve finished, nothings changed. Youve still lost. If something positive came from that, I probably would do it. But I see only negativity.
All I did was take my time, figure out where I made a lot of mistakes and try not to make them no more.
You know, comments about style always seem strange to me - 'why do you work in this style, or in that style' - as if you had a choice in the matter... What you're doing is trying to stay alive and continue and not die.
Willpower is a myth. The problem with trying to use willpower to achieve and sustain a behavioral change is that it is fueled by emotion. And as we all know, our emotions are, at best, fickle. They come and go. When your emotions start running down -- and they will -- even your best-laid plans will fall flat.
We [photographers] have the tools and the power to create images - we should try to make them as truthful as possible.
The thing I would like most to leave behind is to be remembered for trying hard.
The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution.
People are much less interested in what you are trying to show them than what you are trying to hide.
Why do we try so hard to make Jesus cool?! He doesn’t need a makeover.
I'm blessed. I'm blessed every day I wake up. So I just try to maximize every day to the fullest.
It has nothing to do with swimming. That happens to be my sport. I'm trying to see how far I can go