Quotes by category:Trying

You can't reinvent the wheel. You've got to just take the best from all the other shows and try to make it work, because there's the "live show Gods" that dictate if there are going to be any surprises, if there's a very commercial film that's a Best Picture. There are a lot of things that are out of my control, but I do my best.

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You're trying to pin me down. I'm not a verbal person. Look at my work and decide for yourself. It's hard to put it into words.

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Trying to follow in the footsteps of the masters, but it's a lot harder than it looks because even though they had the same size feet as us, they weren't looking down the whole time while they walked to make sure they were doing it right

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There's a long history of presidents coming in, saying they're gonna to take on the bureaucracy. What they really mean is they're gonna try to shift the emphasis of where those bureaucrats are gonna work and how they're gonna spend their time towards achieving objectives that presidents want to achieve.

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Certainly I get a lot personally out of it as well, there's the recognition and things like that but mostly I try to take that as an opportunity to explain why I hope we could see more projects like Apache out there and why it's a good thing for society.

Brian Behlendorf

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I'm not Michelangelo but I would like to be that. I'll never be him but I'm trying to strive to do that in my work.

A really important part of competition is coming back, trying to do it better the second time than you did the first.

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Any artist who really engages with the problems in their medium at that moment and tries to deepen the problems is likely to discover new problems, new possibilities that will excite audiences and continue to excite them.

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When you start a company, it's more an art than a science because it's totally unknown. Instead of solving high-profile problems, try to solve something that's deeply personal to you. Ideally, if you're an ordinary person and you've just solved your problem, you might have solved the problem for millions of people.

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I try to drum each day. It's therapeutic. by Brian Chippendale

I try to drum each day. It's therapeutic.

Brian Chippendale

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Each day I also try to draw. It's a similar expulsion of buildup: Milking the cows every morning. Checking the chickens' eggs. Why should that be limited to a certain medium?

Brian Chippendale

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I love digestible art, but I make what I think is organic and realistic, and therefore it's incomplete and completely tangent oriented. I try to keep with what I am thinking about that day - which changes too fast.

Brian Chippendale

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What we've been trying to do is difficult. You know it's difficult to win one, to win two. Madness to win three. But to try and come back to win it again should be impossible really.

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We may not be able to offer long-term employment, but we should try to offer long-term employability.

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So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point

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I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.

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Don't give up when you still have something to give. Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying.

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I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I'm on form, I can sell anything.

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Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds... by Brian Eno

Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.

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The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn't just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one. A responsible designer might try to overcome this limitation - probably the engineers at Marshall tried, too. But that sound became the sound of, among others, Jimi Hendrix. That sound is called electric guitar.

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