Quotes by Trying I can't do nothin except try to find cloud nine. Assata Shakur ninecloudstrying I really wanted to know what happens in a place that is trying to build socialism, that's trying to construct some form of social justice. That's trying to feed people, to make health care and education a right. Assata Shakur justicetryingpeople I worked, studied, mothered and continued to be an activist. I found that Cuba was much different from the US; its government was genuinely trying to erase racism. Assata Shakur governmentracismtrying I have noticed several times that people don't think I know how to behave even when I'm trying as hard as I can. Astrid Lindgren tryingpeoplethinking There is a desperate tendency to try to legislate artists, to try to lay down rules for their obligations to society. Just leave artists alone. If you are a true artist, you will have a very finely tuned moral mechanism. Athol Fugard moralartisttrying Try to produce your own films, avoid directing for hire. Atom Egoyan producefilmtrying I think ultimately if you have a very high expectation of your audience and you know exactly what it is you're trying to express through the medium of film, there will always be an audience for you. Atom Egoyan expectationstryingthinking Every actor has a different temperament. Part of my job is to know what those boundaries are. The actor has to know you'll be there at the other end, that you're trying to represent them in the best light, who they are as they're harnessing these roles. The methods vary from actor to actor. Atom Egoyan lighttryingjobs It was very important that it be done in such a way that it be executed with complete conviction. If I had done it both ways, if I was trying to cover myself in case it didn't work, then it would have been to no purpose. Atom Egoyan importantpurposetrying I think in the '80s, when I started making films, we were all suspicious of these technologies. We were all convinced they would filter out any emotion and sense of intimacy, and the films I made during that period reflected that. In fact, what has happened is the opposite. I think we're saturated with a degree of intimacy we would never have expected, and we're trying to sort through this idea of complete access to each other's lives on an ongoing basis. Our emotions aren't filtered out at all. They're actually accelerated. Atom Egoyan technologytryingthinking Sometimes you think you want to know something, but it's actually more exciting and more resonant when you have to try [and figure it out]. Atom Egoyan wanttryingthinking Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try. Atul Gawande geniusdoetrying One of the reasons people might be fallible, why we might fail to do what we try to do isignorance, that we have a limited understanding of the laws of the world - the physical laws that govern the world and of all the particulars of the world upon which those laws work. And then there's ineptitude, meaning that the knowledge is available, but individuals fail to apply it correctly. The third source is "necessary fallibility." That is, we're never going to be omniscient, there is some knowledge that we will simply never achieve, and there are limits to what we will be able to do. Atul Gawande understandingtryingpeople Don’t let yourself be. Find something new to try, something to change. Count how often it succeeds and how often it doesn’t. Write about it. Ask a patient or a colleague what they think about it. See if you can keep the conversation going. Atul Gawande writingtryingthinking Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish; it can only add a second atrocity to the original one ... So long as one sees killing as wrong there is no need to waste time with the deterrent argument, since it would be nonsense to try to prevent a theoretical evil in the future by perpetrating an actual one in the present. Auberon Waugh eviltryinglong I can assure you that buying leases for x and selling them for 5x or 10x is a lot more profitable than trying to produce gas at $5 or $6 per million cubic feet. Aubrey McClendon buyingfeettrying My theory on smear pieces is try and win 'em over. Aubrey O'Day emswinningtrying I do have magical powers, I try to use them for good and not evil, but I can pretty much make anyone do whatever I want them to do, if they're within range. Aubrey Plaza useeviltrying [people] very fact that it's decentralized makes it literally impossible to try to hack or rig the results. Audie Cornish tryingfactspeople Because the machine will try to grind you into dust anyway, whether or not we speak. Audre Lorde machinesdusttrying«5758596061626364656667»
