Trying Quotes - Page 85

UNESCO provides protection for the great cultural institutions. There is something called the intangible cultural heritage list. And the Italians want to put Neapolitan pizza on it. But in order to do that, you have to show that whatever it is that you're trying to protect is under threat. And pizza is totally under threat from Pizza Hut and Domino's...

Don’t bother trying to explain your emotions. Live everything as intensely as you can and keep whatever you felt as a gift from God. The best way to destroy the bridge between the visible and invisible is by trying to explain your emotions.

Try to be inspired by something every day. Try to inspire at least one person every day.

You always have to try to move forward with a positive connotation in the future.

This is who I am. I'm not perfect. I don't want to try to be perfect.

I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.

You can't please everybody. There's that old saying that there's no sure formula for success, but the only sure fire formula for failure is to try to please everyone. You're not going to do that.

I usually try to make my images look like they just exist, like no effort was put into it.

What would we do if we didn't try? We have to try.

There's nothing like trying to spoonfeed Tortellini Carbonara to a blindfolded naked giggling woman.

A snake will always be a snake, even if you put a chain around its neck and try to make it walk upright.

Well, the way I play, I try not to be a 'repeater pencil', ya dig? Originality's the thing. You can have tone and technique and a lot of other things but without originality you ain't really nowhere. Gotta be original.

I'm not the kind of person who tries to be cool or trendy, I'm definitely an individual.

It is safer to try to understand the low in the light of the high than the high in the light of the low. In doing the latter one necessarily distorts the high, whereas in doing the former one does not deprive the low of the freedom to reveal itself as fully as what it is.

My only challenge was to tell my truth, man... figure out what I had to say. These days, it's not enough to boost that roomful of strangers. The young comic spends all their time trying to sound different from the million other jokesters grabbing for the mic.

You can waste so much energy trying to make everyone happy, but at the end of the day it's impossible to please everyone, so you just need to focus on what makes you happy.

With improv, it's a combination of listening and not trying to be funny.

There are a lot of things that come to bear on movies now that I don't think are good for movies. They're trying to appeal to the biggest demographic and, when they do that, you sometimes flatten out.

While you have people who are actually fronting for your needs and wants, sometimes your needs and wants may not be right for you. The people around you are just trying to keep their jobs.

Four: If you try to force yourself into my head, I will force myself into your pants.

People always try to box you in to what they know you best for.

Don’t try to be anybody else because that’s what makes you not swaggy.

I'm not old school, like, "Aw, man, I gotta do my music like I did in '98." I just go with the flow. I don't try to change anything.

I feel like I'm waving the flag for musicianship, trying to bring back bands that can play.

If someone is feeling out of sorts or detached it's a great time to bring them in and restate why we are here and what we are trying to do.