Trying Quotes
Sometimes the effort matters more than the outcome.
This collection finds humor and sincerity in the act of trying - baseball becoming enjoyable again only after quitting the attempt to play it, and a small reading ritual used to get through a demanding project. Related reading in I Am Quotes.
In all my shows, I'm not interested in the iconic shots of the Capitol and the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. I'm always interested in trying to get the culture of the place - trying to get it right.
I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber.
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To think in terms of what the effect of a story is going to be, as opposed to trying to discover its inner logic, is one of the fundamental dangers in the process.
Humility has to do with trying to be a vessel of purposes you're content to understand as not your own.
We spend more time developing means of escaping our troubles than we do solving the troubles we're trying to escape from.
Dirty Projectors has always been a band that's been card-carrying modernists in terms of pushing different kinds of abstraction to the fore and trying to take them to the center of the culture or something like that.
Think of a pitch in terms of advertising: You're trying to hook a reader the way a commercial tries to hook a detergent user.
I spent the first part of my career trying to avoid genre because I felt like genre, in some way, was cliche.
'Perfect Sense' is an extremely serious film, and I am an extremely serious film-maker who is trying to explore the medium in original and interesting ways.
Obama is not only obstructing budget reform; it's almost as if he is trying to make matters worse.
As leader of the effort of the Iraqi Survey Group, I spent most of my days not out in the field leading inspections. It's typically what you do at that level. I was trying to motivate, direct, find strategies.
I'm not a kid trying to make an impression in the business. I do have 600 films out there that are playing constantly.
Instead of educating students, these professors are trying to indoctrinate them.
I'm just trying to give the best human expression that I can to any particular genre, which could be comedy, could be drama, could be horror, could be thriller.
It would probably strike the average politician as absurd to argue that the best way to fix the economy is to stop trying to 'fix it.'
I'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make a difference.
It's not about being the biggest or the place with the most pins in a map. We want to be the most influential. We talk about trying to build the most influential agency in the world.
I think about what I say. I don't give stock answers. I'm not trying to cultivate an image with the public, like several of the top players do.
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