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“Studying design has made me a much, much more astute observer of this aspect of business. And I'm working mightily to improve my empathic skills. I've dramatically improved my ability to read facial expressions - and I'm trying to be a better, more attentive listener.”

Trying Made Ability Study Design Expression Skills Aspect Listeners Observers Facial Facial Expression Astute

Author:Daniel H. Pink

“I feel that discussing story-writing in terms of plot, character, and theme is like trying to describe the expression on a face by saying where the eyes, nose, and mouth are.”

Feels Writing Trying Character Stories Eye Faces Term Expression Mouths Noses Theme Plot Discussing Story Writing

Book:Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.”

People Trying Faces Ability Forever Expression Broken Awkward Cracked Trust Others

Book:No Longer Human

Source: No Longer Human

“Words are changing. I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn't been born yet. It's difficult.”

Writing Trying Difficult Born Expression Outdated

Author:Agnes Denes

“As regards my means of expression, I try my hardest to achieve the maximum of clarity, power, and plastic aggressiveness; a physical sensation to begin with, followed up by an impact on the psyche.”

Trying Mean Achieve Expression Regard Impact Hardest Clarity Sensations Plastic Maximum Aggressiveness

Author:Joan Miro

“The story man must see clearly in his own mind how every piece of business will be put over. He should feel every expression, every reaction. He get far enough from his story to take a second look at it... to see whether there is any dead phase... to see whether the personalities are going to be interesting and appealing to the audience. He should also try to see that the things that his characters are doing are of an interesting nature.”

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Author:Walt Disney

“It's like trying to drink whisky from a bottle of wine.”

Trying Expression Drink Wine Bottles Whisky Bottles Of Wine

Author:Elton John

“Like two sparrows in a hurricane trying to find their way.”

Way Trying Two Expression Hurricanes Sparrows

Author:Tanya Tucker

“We can't stop trying til we break up our minds, til the sun drips blood on the seedy young knight.”

Trying Mind Young Break Sun Blood Expression Knights Stop Trying

Author:David Bowie

“Everyone wants rather to be pleasing to women and that desire is not altogether, though it is very largely, a manifestation of vanity. But one cannot aim to be pleasing to women any more than one can aim to have taste, or beauty of expression, or happiness; for these things are not specific aims which one may learn to attain; they are descriptions of the adequacy of one's living. To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.”

Want Trying May Running Desire Expression Taste Machines Aim Vanity Manifestation Description Specifications Adequacy Trying To Be Happy

Author:J. Robert Oppenheimer

“In a way, the blank canvas... represents the infinity of trying to use color to express emotions - to assign a linguistic function to color.”

Way Trying Use Emotion Color Expression Function Infinity Blank Canvas Blank Canvas

Author:Guido Molinari

“I decided that expressionism was a cheap way of getting a reaction - show anybody ripped apart, and you get sympathy. I was deliberately trying to show the human body as whole and relatively healthy.”

Way Trying Humans Whole Shows Body Expression Healthy Decided Reactions Human Body Ripped Expressionism

Author:Philip Pearlstein

“People think that they have no right to judge a fact - all they have to do is to accept it. Thus from the moment that technics, the State, or production, are facts, we must worship them as facts, and we must try to adapt ourselves to them. This is the very heart of modern religion, the religion of the established fact, the religion on which depend the lesser religions of the dollar, race, or the proletariat, which are only expressions of the great modern divinity, the Moloch of fact.”

People Thinking Trying Heart States Moments Facts Race Accepting Modern Expression Judging Depends Worship Dollars Productions Divinity Proletariat

Author:Jacques Ellul

“At present, I am a poet trying to be a soldier. To tell the truth, I am not interested in writing nowadays, except in so far as writing is the expression of something beautiful ... The only sort of book I care to write about the war is the sort people will read after the war is over - a century after it is over.”

People Writing Trying Book War Care Beautiful Century Poet Expression Soldier Telling The Truth Not Interested I Care Something Beautiful

Book:Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems

Source: Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems

“Fashion is ultimately a form of self-expression. Thats why I love trying out new things.”

Trying Self Form Fashion Expression New Things Self Expression

Author:Ashley Madekwe

“Your freedom as a writer is not freedom of expression in the sense of wild blurting; you may not let rip. It is life at its most free, if you are fortunate enough to be able to try it, because you select your materials, invent your task, and pace yourself.”

Ifs Trying May Enough Able Expression Materials Tasks Fortunate Pace Rip Select Freedom Of Expression Your Freedom Pace Yourself

Book:The Writing Life

Source: The Writing Life

“I see myself as a student. I would never call myself a master or a maestro. If you take the path of the student, that means you have to try a little bit of everything in hopes that you're going to learn something or strike some kind of new note, expression in the process. I'm not going for grades; I'm going for an education. I'm going to continue experimenting and trying new things to try to evolve and learn.”

Ifs Trying Kind Mean Littles Bits Process Sound Path Students Expression Masters Little Bit Notes Strikes Evolve Grades New Things Trying New Things Maestro

Author:Nicolas Cage

“A good home owes it, as an expression of thankfulness for its own happiness, to try and make up something of the lack that is in other homes.”

Trying Home Happiness Family Expression Thankfulness

Book:Ideal Homes, Or, Our Golden Mile-stones ...: A Volume of Practical Experices, Popularly Illustrated : Embracing All the Interests of the Household

Source: Ideal Homes, Or, Our Golden Mile-stones ...: A Volume of Practical Experices, Popularly Illustrated : Embracing All the Interests of the Household

“Why does philosophy use concepts and why does faith use symbols if both try to express the same ultimate? The answer, of course, is that the relation to the ultimate is not the same in each case. The philosophical relation is in principle a detached description of the basic structure in which the ultimate manifests itself. The relation of faith is in principle an involved expression of concern about the meaning of the ultimate for the faithful.”

Source: Dynamics of Faith

“The trouble is that the expression 'material thing' is functioning already, from the very beginning, simply as a foil for 'sense-datum'; it is not here given, and is never given, any other role to play, and apart from this consideration it would surely never have occurred to anybody to try to represent as some single kind of things the things which the ordinary man says that he 'perceives.”

Men Trying Kind Play Given Roles Trouble Expression Materials Perception Ordinary Data Perceive Consideration Material Things Ordinary Man Foils

Author:J. L. Austin

“For as long as human beings are forced to live in a system that at every turn impedes the fulfillment of their basic human needs - not only for love but for creative and spiritual expression - they will try to compensate for this in other ways, including the compulsive acquisition of ever more material goods.”

Way Needs Trying Humans Long Spiritual Turns Human Beings Loss Creative Expression Materials Including Disaster Fulfillment Goods Acquisition Human Needs Basic Human Needs

Author:Riane Eisler

“My programme, The Art of Creative Expression, empowers young people with tools to express themselves. We teach photography, art and drama, but it's not just the medium that's important, it's about what you are trying to say.”

People Trying Art Important Young Teach Creative Expression Drama Photography Tools Mediums Empowering Programmes Creative Expression

Author:Dawud Wharnsby Ali

“Adolescents do get very angry with their parents, and acknowledging this anger is part of acknowledging them. If the anger is notacknowledged then its expression is increased. The parent seems super-strong. The adolescent tries to become the super-attacker.”

Ifs Trying Seems Strong Parent Expression Angry

Author:Terri E Apter

“I am freely able to express myself honestly to the public without trying to polish it over, trying to hide something. I'm just trying to be free with my expression.”

Trying Able Expression Honestly Polish

Author:Ziggy Marley

“Everything I do is really an expression of myself, through colors and shapes and, at the same time, I try to explain what I feel not only as a creator but also as a woman. I cannot separate one from the other.”

Feels Trying Color Expression Shapes Creator

Author:Sonia Rykiel

“I don't look at people's expressions, because I still get nervous when I play, especially when I first put the harp up there. I just try to tune - it takes me a half-hour to tune, and I get nervous if I look at anybody when I do it.”

People Ifs Trying Firsts Looks Stills Play Hours Half Expression Nervous Tunes Take Me Half Hours Harps

Author:Joanna Newsom

“Much more than trying to focus on the battlefield of the war, it was the central place that German doctors occupied within Nazism, the omnipotent and insane idea of wanting to generically modify an entire nation. This idea was not on the outskirts of Nazi ideology, it was the heart of movement, that's what intrigued me. Mengele is the most extreme expression of this idea.”

Trying Heart Ideas War Nations Focus Movement Expression Doctors Extremes Insane Ideology Nazi Battlefields Intrigued Nazism Omnipotent

Author:Lucia Puenzo

“I think that writers often try too hard in the name of expression, when often it's just a matter of reframing what's around you or republishing a preexisting text into a new environment that makes for a successful work.”

Thinking Trying Matter Hard Names Successful Environment Expression Reframing New Environment Successful Work

Author:Kenneth Goldsmith

“And heresy is, as I have tried to show, largely the expression of opinion of the untutored average man, trying to grapple with the problems of the universe at the point where they begin to interfere with his daily life and thought.”

Men Trying Shows Problem Universe Opinion Expression Average Daily Life Interfere Heresy Average Man

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“In my portraits I try to avoid the fleeting expression and vivacity of a snapshot.”

Trying Expression Portraits Fleeting Snapshots Vivacity

Book:Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography

Source: Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography

“Celebrity and charity have been bedfellows for many years. The key is to try and choose practical, sound and effective ones. There is no shortage of solicitation for endorsement, so you have to really know what you're getting behind and be passionate about it. In this case, aside from just being a spokesperson, they're benefiting a form of expression that is dear to me, painting.”

Knows Trying Years Has Beens Form Sound Behinds Cases Painting Expression Keys Charity Dear Passionate Practicals Just Being Shortage Endorsements Bedfellows Solicitation

Author:Billy Zane

“What the artist attempts to do is to try and tell a story. Attempting to give physical expression to a story that's internal.”

Giving Trying Stories Artist Expression Internals Attempting

Author:Gregory Crewdson

“I try to express with the camera what the story is, to get to the heart of the story with picture. In battle I look at things first in terms of people, second in terms of strategies or casualties... To tell a story, you don't photograph one hundred dead civilians to prove there were one hundred dead civilians. You photograph one dead civilian with an expression on his face that says, This is what it's like if you're a dead civilian in Vietnam.”

People Ifs Trying Firsts Looks Heart Stories Faces Term Expression Battle Prove Hundred Cameras Strategy Photograph Vietnam Civilians Casualties

Author:Horst Faas

“If by the expression "not practical" you mean "not easy," you are right. Definitely it is not easy. Yet it should be tried. You may say it is risky trying it. Surely it cannot be more risky than trying a nuclear war.”

Ifs Should Trying May Mean War Easy Expression Nuclear Practicals Nuclear War

Book:What the Buddha Taught

Source: What the Buddha Taught

“I try to look at the evolution of these utopian claims. In the late '60s there was an assumption that the wealth generated by industry would be taxed and then put into social programs and it would provide a baseline of stability that would allow people to have the time for self-expression; and that social contract has eroded over the last four decades and now it's every person for themselves.”

“As a consumer of culture, I like a wide range of emotions to be touched in art. It's funny but on the other side of it, I do feel that people that are trying to sell culture would like to see a narrower range of expression from their content-makers. Easier to sell I guess.”

People Feels Trying Art Culture Sides Emotion Expression Easier Sells Wide Consumers Range Touched Makers Range Of Emotions

Author:Erin McKeown

“The spiritual traditions of all the religions have certain similarities that are unmistakable. They share many of the same basic practices like sacred reading, spiritual guidance, moderation in eating, drinking and sexual expression, and above all, trying to be aware of the presence of God in other people and in everyday life.”

“I think expression is at it's best when it comes from an honest place, so I always try to use my own life experiences, feelings, struggles, frustrations etc. as the catalyst for my song writing.”

Thinking Writing Trying Use Feelings Song My Own Struggle Honest Expression Frustration Etc Life Experience My Own Life Catalyst

Author:Kate Brown

“The Niagara on a bicycle. It's like trying to cross the Niagara on a bicycle, which is impossible, but it's an expression in the Dominican Republic that basically says that someone is going through a hard time.”

Trying Hard Impossible Expression Crosses Hard Times Republic Bicycle Niagara Dominican Republic

Author:Juan Luis Guerra

“I think that I burnt myself out a little bit with my dancing because I did so much of it. I was exhausted so thought that I would try a different kind of performance and expression and acting seemed like a close fit; it was similar in some ways to dancing. My mum showed me some really good films and so I became interested in films and acting.”

Thinking Way Trying Kind Littles Different Film Bits Acting Expression Fit Little Bit Performances Dancing Different Kinds Mum Exhausted Good Films

Author:Mia Wasikowska

“After Pope, in the beginning of Romanticism, people developed the idea that imagination rather than reason was a special form of knowledge and its best expression is through poetry. Therefore, poetry should not try to do the stuff that mere prose does: convey information or make arguments about ideas.”

People Should Trying Doe Ideas Reason Form Stuff Imagination Special Information Expression Argument Mere Prose Pope Romanticism

Author:Robert Hass

“It meant a kind of real liberation of expression. It embraced amateurism in a way that I still am inspired by. It was not about trying to get, you know, stadium gigs or even commercial radio play or even record deals for that matter. It was about saying something 'cause you meant it, and expressing something that you felt. And that was primary for that - whatever the scene, whatever punk rock means, it was very, very important to me, very formative.”

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Author:Jim Jarmusch

“I try to use models at least for the main characters because of the nature of my art. I tend to focus on the humanity of my subjects, the details of expression that add a certain reality to the work. Real faces = real art. That's the goal anyway.”

Trying Art Real Character Use Reality Faces Certain Humanity Goal Focus Subjects Expression Models Add Details Main Characters

Author:Floyd Cooper

“Transience is what is normal. The problem is that we are busily trying to create political structures and cultural expressions that deny that and to deny that is to deny the basic idea of what is human.”

Trying Humans Ideas Problem Political Expression Normal Structure Deny Transience

Author:Mohsin Hamid

“My work has never been autobiographical. Although the subjects are driven on a personal perspective it's sort of elevated above me. I try to express something that is more a collective expression of crisis.”

Trying Subjects Expression Perspective Crisis Driven Collectives

Author:Shirin Neshat

“I think movies are expressions of our imagination; they are expressions of our conscious and of our subconscious. I think that movies can be analyzed the way dreams are analyzed, and sometimes I feel that the viewers or the journalists I discuss the film with are psychoanalysts who are trying to make sense of my dreams.”

Thinking Way Feels Trying Sometimes Dream Film Imagination Expression Conscious Make Sense Journalist Subconscious Viewers

Author:Olivier Assayas

“I was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, painters and people that were in theater. Just having the art-communal hippie experience as a child, there wasn't a clear line that was drawn. We celebrated creative experience and creative expression. We didn't try and curtail it and stunt any of that kind of growth.”

People Trying Kind Children Art Artist Growth Lines Creative Clear Expression Musician Theater Raised Photographer Painter Hippie Creative Expression

Author:Jared Leto

“If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.”

Ifs Trying Funny Music Expression Words Bother Piano Composer Classical Music Music Love Playing Music Composing Conductor Inspirational Music Classic Music Composing Music

Author:Gustav Mahler

“There's an expression in Australia that's called 'Go Bush,' which means to get out of the city and relax. I try and 'go bush' to places where there's no cell reception. But, I don't get to do that often, so for the most part, it's just a state of mind.”

Trying Mind Mean States Cities Expression Cells Relax Australia State Of Mind Reception

Author:Cate Blanchett

“Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.”

Needs Should Trying Young Creative Player Expression Skills Soccer Fear Of Failure Freedom Of Expression Be Encouraged

Author:Arsene Wenger