Trying Quotes - Page 84

I would just encourage any artist to stay focused, of course keep God first, and just keep working hard. Try to outwork those who you idolize.

You can never get ahead by trying to get even.

I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.

You must try to make the most of all that comes but also don't forget to learn a lot of all that goes.

I write as someone who has no more time for repressive Islam than he does for repressive Christianity or Judaism, but at least look at the face in the hijab - and try to imagine the one beneath the niqab - before you depersonalise its wearer.

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.

Try to walk as much as you can, and keep your love for nature, for that is the true way to learn to understand art more and more. Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see her. If one really loves nature, one can find beauty everywhere.

The good life begins with Christ and ends with me. I need to stop following me and stop trying to make life all about me.

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami.

Anybody who tries to change society without examining the family is trying to push a shadow without moving a statue.

[Making movies] you're not trying to capture reality, you're trying to capture a photograph of reality.

I have always tried to have a message, not to be a preacher, but a message that shows it's better to be a good guy than a bad guy, and I try to make it clear that doing the right thing is more attractive than not.

You can make it if you try, push a little harder, think a little deeper.

I'm not a traditional politician, and I have a sense of humor. I'll try to soften it and become boring, maybe even very boring, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to.

Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight.

We spend our life, it's ours, trying to bring together in the same instant a ray of sunshine and a free bench

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.' You won't believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.

I run 5 miles every night. It’s where I go to digest my day, hash out the multitude of information that’s been poured into me in the last wild six months or so, and to try and condense it down to some sort of cohesive strategy to live my life by.

I'm just trying to make my favorite music. That's how I work; I just do things based on the way they feel to me. I want to be touched by the music I'm making. Luckily, other people have shared that response to my work over the years.

I try to write every day. Sometimes the things come out well, and sometimes they don't. When they come out well you think, Wow, I must be really great; and when they come out poorly, you think you must be terrible, but the truth is that's how any process works.

We've replaced the proclamation of Christ with an easy-listening legalism of do more and try harder.

Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes not divine, but demonic.

A Judge must bear in mind that when he tries a case he is himself on trial.

I love stories. When I tell a story, I try to think of people sitting around a crackling campfire.