The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
The night before Tilbury, the Cordon Bleu gourmet dinner turned out Cordon Brown. Six out of ten to the chef for trying and ten out of ten to us for eating it.
‘E.T.’ began with me trying to write a story about my parents’ divorce.
There are limits to how much sound a cello can make. That’s part of the framing of acoustical instruments. Finding what those limits might be, and then trying to suggest perhaps even the illusion of going beyond is part of that kind of effort.
I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we’re all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose… When you connect with that love and that compassion, that’s when everything unfolds.
I think happiness really happens when you least expect it: it’s when you’re not really thinking about it, when you’re not trying to achieve it, when you’re not trying to get the perfect holiday, the perfect life, the perfect body, the perfect existence.
I know I haven’t always done things the right way. I’m just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how to become a better man, a better father, a better person, a better artist.
Gossip is a very dangerous tool. We should be more wary of the gossiper, and not the gossip they’re trying to relay to you.
Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That’s in your power.
You don’t get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.
I didn’t do anything but write for six months after I got my publishing deal. That was just trying to get better and figure out my sound and the way I like to do it.
I’ve never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal.
When I played, I would never, ever try to run Reggie Miller off the line because I knew Reggie. If I ran at him, and I was trying to run him off the line, I was going to get kicked.
We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation… but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.
Cynicism, to me, is trying to make people as unhappy as you are.
I’m just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.
I learned to see myself and my role as a capitalist… as somebody who’s trying to harness, for myself and for society, the power of greed and the power of the will to acquire into something that makes the world a better place. That’s the version of capitalism that we want.
Why should we change onstage? We’re not trying to be something big and fancy, it’s just us, doing what we do, we’d like to keep it that way.
I believe you only have one chance on this earth, and I’m just trying to live my life and do what makes me happy.
I’m trying to grow. I don’t want to stay on the same page.
Can anyone remember love? It’s like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.
With the Monday Night Wars, it was almost a pay-per-view every single Monday between the two factions because they were trying to throw everything but the kitchen sink to win the ratings war.
Never hold up your entire group of friends in real life trying to capture a perfect Instagram pose. Nobody cares.
It’s remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.
‘Snow White’ is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today’s science, people have become crazy with trying to move their face around. It’s bizarre.
Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.
I’m not trying to be sexy. It’s just my way of expressing myself when I move around.
I don’t care what people think of me, unless they think I’m mean or something, but I don’t care if they think I’m like someone else because I know I’m not – I’m a total weirdo. I’m not selling a dream; I’m not selling fame like it is some sort of fantastic thing. I’m just trying to sell music and get on with my real life.
Bitcoin frees people from trying to operate in a modern market economy.
Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.
A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.
Working through experience is best for me, just being there and trying to get into the mode.
I love new restaurants; I love trying out new foods.
I was taught to confront things you can’t avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you’re trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don’t last for ever makes them beautiful.
Whether it’s a friendly match, or for points, or a final, or any game – I play the same. I’m always trying to be my best, first for my team, for myself, for the fans, and to try and win.
I’m not a diva. I’m a tadpole trying to be a frog.
Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.
I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you’re doing. You have to be a salesman, and you have to get your players, particularly your leaders, to believe in what you’re trying to accomplish on the basketball floor.
When you are trying to express things with metaphors and much more subtlety, that’s when you are doing yourself a disservice by making a video.
It takes a long time to free oneself from chatter – goals, social media, image, persona. And if you’re able to move through in that way, you can actually start trying to create from a different place.
I’m a student of patterns. At heart, I’m a physicist. I look at everything in my life as trying to find the single equation, the theory of everything.
Don’t waste time trying to break a man’s heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.
I’m trying to incorporate colour into my life. Until recently, everything in my closet was black, white, grey, navy or olive.
Imperfection and perfection go so hand in hand, and our dark and our light are so intertwined, that by trying to push the darkness or the so-called negative aspects of our life to the side… we are preventing ourselves from the fullness of life.
My job is trying to make people laugh. A room full of people laughing forget their worries, their issues, that’s why I find it so joyful.
Don’t stop until you get where you’re trying to go.
I have a producing partner named Stephen Hamel, and we’ve been trying to generate material.
We have a lot of guests who are trying to take over the house and the owner of the house doesn’t like it.
At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there. Then it was about fine-tuning and trying to improve in each area.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
It’s much easier to get a reception from someone if there is an introduction versus randomly trying to get in front of people.
We are not trying to entertain the critics. I’ll take my chances with the public.
I have been running since I was 7. I was trying to restructure the way my body was made instead of trying to master the way I ran. I would get so frustrated with my starts in practices that I would just cry. When I ran, I wouldn’t even try to get out of the blocks, I would just run.
I’m trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny.
I think my riding has hopefully gotten a lot better, but I’m always trying to push myself.
A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it’s best to let him run.
Putin probably, almost certainly, thinks that one of the great disasters of the 20th century was the demise of the Soviet Union. It’s very obvious that he’s trying to work its way back and maintain something similar to that sort of institution.
We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.
Trying to learn to be a good man is like learning to play tennis against a wall. You are only a good man – a competent, capable, interesting and lovable man – when you’re doing it for, or with, other people.
Realistically, looks offer an advantage to an actor. I’m going to work hard to maintain my skin. I’m going to prevent aging as much as possible. And I will keep trying to become a better person on the inside as much as I spruce up the outside.
