Trying Quotes - Page 86

What's the point in being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.

Something like trying to protect yourself all the time, things like trying to outwit fate. Those things can be the worst thing you can do for yourself.

When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture.

There is no luck; you've got to make your luck. You've got to always be prepared-without trying to.

If you raise taxes on millionaires and billionaires, you'll do nothing to address the debt and the deficit. And the thing you might do is you might finally put this economy over another cliff. These millionaires and billionaires are the folks that try to create jobs and help grow the economy.

Yeah, it's nice to look up to people, but the more you try to be somebody else, the less you are of yourself.

I don't really push myself upon people. I don't have that. When it meets and things fall in line, it's meant to happen. It's happened that way. I just try to do my best and do my work, and then it falls in line.

I’m going to break one of the rules of the trade here. I’m going to tell you some of the secrets of improvisation. Just remember—it’s always a good idea to follow the directions exactly the first time you try a recipe. But from then on, you’re on your own.

Once in your life, try something. Work hard at something. Try to change. Nothing bad can happen.

I'm treating every day as a special one and trying to live in the moment.

I don’t care if the world or anyone in it tries to drag me down. Because I know that in the end, they will be the ones left tired from the struggle to hold me back.

If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.

Things change all the time, and theyll probably never be the same again. Its just the natural evolution of the human condition. Things change, and whatever it is is what it is. I mean, you try to start second guessing that, you either get rich or die broke.

Sir, are you trying to offer me a bribe? How much

Don't pretend to be a great master and don't try to show off your strength.

The world isn't tidy; it's a mess. I don't try to make it neat.

As you get older, it gets harder to get rid of that belly but I do a lot of cardio to try to stay in shape.

Every time you start a movie is to explore with a director and if you can with the actors and with the other collaborators and try to figure out what's the best way to tell the specific story.

Children listen, I'm trying to tell you something good, don't get caught up in the hood.

We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying.

If you have used colour throughout most of your artistic life, try just black and white... it will take your painting to another dimension where tone and form in all its permutations reign supreme.

Thought is constantly creating problems that way and then trying to solve them. But as it tries to solve them it makes it worse because it doesn't notice that it's creating them, and the more it thinks, the more problems it creates.

People are happiest when they're trying to achieve goals that are difficult but not out of reach.

Try honest to see things from the other person's point of view.

The tongue is very powerful, so what you say really is, and I really believe that. So I just try to say good things, and then things like this happen.