Best past & trying Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“To me the only real star of the movie is the writer. And I work with writers very closely, from outline to first draft and on to the seventh draft, whatever it takes. Then my job is to support the director to make the best movie we can. Some producers try to go past them, but my job is to support them.”

Trying Firsts Real Jobs Past Stars Support Directors Producers Outlines Whatever It Takes

Author:Dino De Laurentiis

“The last four years under President Obama have been trying and troubling for this entire country. The tired big government policies of the past have failed us. We can't afford more disappointments. We need a new direction. We need a new president.”

Needs Trying Years Has Beens Country Bigs Government Lasts Past President Four Policy Tired Disappointment President Obama Four Years Big Government New Directions Government Policy

Author:Reince Priebus

“Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal 'security,' those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists - they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies.”

Way Trying Looks Long Today Past Views Security Solutions Ideology Inward Static Exaggerated

Book:My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change

Source: My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change

“I wasn't a jock in school, and by the 10th grade, when I was in boarding school I was carrying water buckets for the girls' hockey team. I was the kid with long hair and glasses and acne trying to learn how to play guitar and piano in the music center. I was not an athlete past the age of 13 or 14 when they start throwing the ball really fast.”

Trying Long Play Kids Age School Past Girl Water Team Hair Balls Guitar Glasses Athlete Piano Grades Hockey Throwing Buckets Jocks Long Hair Acne Hockey Team

Author:Michael Weatherly

“Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal.”

Trying Past Remember Lost Ideals Stopping Refrain

Author:Lawrence Lessig

“Live. How many of us need to be reminded that living has nothing to do with trying to be as good as someone else, or trying to fit into some category, or filling in the blanks on some stupid checklist. That it has nothing to do with punishing yourself for past mistakes.”

Needs Trying Past Mistake Stupid Fit Categories Filling Past Mistakes Checklists Filling In Trying To Fit In Punishing Yourself

Book:Coffeehouse Angel

Source: Coffeehouse Angel

“I don't think I've ever gone on stage to be an asshole. I know one thing, from the past, and that's that my intentions always began in a pure way. I really want to just try and play the songs.”

Thinking Knows Way Want Trying Play Past Song Gone One Thing Stage Pure Intention

Author:Ryan Adams

“Don't worry about the past and don't try to solve the future.”

Trying Past Worry Future Solve

Book:A Christmas Blizzard: A Novel

Source: A Christmas Blizzard: A Novel

“For me it's the challenge -- the challenge to try to beat myself or do better than I did in the past. I try to keep in mind not what I have accomplished but what I have to try to accomplish in the future.”

Trying Mind Past Challenges Beats Accomplish Accomplished

Author:Jackie Joyner-Kersee

“You can only live on the past for so long, and we kind of stretched our luck on that. We think we're on the way back, but it's just a matter of how quickly things come together. Common sense tells you it's not going to happen overnight because we're trying to catch up.”

Thinking Way Trying Kind Long Matter Happens Together Past Common Luck Common Sense

Author:Richard Petty

“Many works of the past complete what they announce they are going to do, to our increasing boredom. Certain others plague me because I cannot follow their intentions. I can tell at a glance what Fabritius is doing, but I am spending my life trying to find out what Rembrandt was up to.”

Trying I Can Past Artist Certain Intention Spending Boredom Glances Plague

Author:Philip Guston

“I've been trying to garden all my life - it just happens that I haven't had a big garden...until the past few years.”

Trying Years Bigs Happens Past Havens Garden

Author:Claire Tomalin

“We should try to achieve things for ourselves and not rely on former or past family glories with which we have no connection but the arbitrary nature of our birth.”

Should Trying Past Achieve Birth Glory Connections Former Rely Arbitrary

Author:Shirley Franklin

“Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid. In the past, whenever I had fallen short in almost any undertaking, it was seldom because I had tried and failed. It was because I had let fear of failure stop me from trying at all.”

Life Trying Past Force Aids Live Life Fallen Fear Of Failure Undertakings Live Life To The Fullest Live Life To Its Fullest Live Your Life To The Fullest Live To The Fullest

Author:Arthur Gordon Webster

“I've learned from the past that it's important to recharge and get time in-between jobs, and if I can't get time in-between jobs then when I know I've got some time coming up at the end of a job, really try and take advantage of that. And do very mundane things at home and putter in the garden and spend time with family and make music and, you know, play with the dogs. Just get back to being me.”

Ifs Knows Trying I Can Important Ends Play Home Jobs Past Dog Advantage Garden I've Learned Get Back End Times Spend Time Mundane Being Me

Author:Guy Pearce

“I think I'm scared a lot. I'm scared of almost everything. And I'm constantly trying to work my way through each obstacle, whether it's a present, past, or future relationship.”

Thinking Way Trying Past Scared Obstacles My Way Future Relationship

Author:Dave Grohl

“In the past, I would try to control so much, but that's just too stressful, and gives me too much anxiety and worry.”

Giving Trying Past Worry Too Much Anxiety Give Me Stressful Anxiety And Worry

Author:Cam Gigandet

“An aged painter cannot help but accept the fact that his work belongs in the past. Younger painters have leaped into the phenomenon called contemporary, where it would be foolish of me to try to enter. But I can claim my own phenomenon.”

Trying I Can Facts Helping Would Be Past My Own Accepting Claims Foolish Contemporary Painter Phenomenon

Author:Joseph Plaskett

“Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does not apply to new problems the old doctrinaire solutions, because it is prepared to experiment and innovate and because it knows that the past is less important than the future.”

Knows Trying Doe Important Philosophy Problem Past Solutions Tradition Prepared Experiments Our Time Liberalism

Author:Pierre Trudeau

“It's always difficult for anyone trying to compete against their past achievements.”

Trying Past Difficult Achievement

Author:Michael Jackson

“Decades later I would look into my father's eyes and try to reach past the murkiness of Alzheimer's with my words, my apology, hoping that in his heart he heard me and understood.”

Trying Looks Heart Eye Past Father Heard Understood Decades Apology Alzheimer Alzheimer's

Author:Patti Davis

“The past. The Golden Age of the past. What a nostalgia we all feel for it. Yet we don't want it when we get it. Try the South Seas.”

Want Feels Trying Age Past Sea South Nostalgia Golden Golden Age

Book:Studies in Classic American Literature

Source: Studies in Classic American Literature

“The art of the poem nowadays is something unstable; but at least the construction of the poem should make sense; you should know where you stand. Many questions haven't been answered as yet. Our poets may be wrong; but what can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.”

Knows Should Trying May Art Past Vision Talent Havens Poet Make Sense Construction Unstable Where You Stand

Author:William Carlos Williams

“The Mexican revolution was a break with the past to recover the past. We were trying to deny we had an Indian and a black and a Spanish past. The Mexican Revolution accepted all heritages. It allowed Mexico to be mestizo.”

Trying Past Black Break Revolution Deny Accepted Indian Heritage Mexico Mexican Over The Past Mexican Revolution

Author:Carlos Fuentes

“I've had a lot of people in my past who were friends with me just to get publicity. When I was young, my mom or sister used to have to point out if someone was using me to make a name for themselves you know, linking arms with me on the red carpet and trying to get in every picture. But now I can see for myself when someone is just hungry for attention.”

People Ifs Knows Trying I Can Past Young Used Names Attention Arms Mom Red My Mom Hungry Carpet Publicity My Past Red Carpet Using Me

Author:Paris Hilton

“The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century every case of a poor nation that worked its way up to a more or less decent, or at least dramatically better, standard of living has taken place via globalization, that is, by producing for the world market rather than trying for self-sufficiency.”

“In the past, love for me has always meant forever, and sure, you still nurse some of those fantasies, but I don't try to force it anymore. I hung on to my fairy-tale ideals for a long time. But where I am now, what I've been through, there are no rules. There are lots of ways it can turn out.”

Way Trying Years Kind Long Stills Different Past Turns Force Fantasy Forever Long Time Ideals Tales Fairy Just One Nurse Different Kinds Fairy Tale Hung Past Love

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“Today, I will try to remember to regret the past. I will think of how many mistakes I have made throughout my life. I will say to myself, "If only I could go back in time and make different choices, so that my life could be the way it should have been." Then I will remind myself that I cannot.”

Ifs Thinking Way Should Trying Has Beens Made Different Today Past Remember Choices Mistake Regret Should Have Should Have Been Back In Time Go Back In Time Different Choices Past Regrets

Author:John S. Hall

“X-Men is not a story about superheroes, but a story about the ongoing revolutionary struggle between good/new and bad/old. The X-Men are every rebel teenager wanting to change the world and make it better. Humanity is every adult, clinging to the past, trying to destroy the future even as he places all his hopes there.”

Men World Trying Stories Past Humanity Struggle Adults Teenager Revolutionary Changing The World Rebel Superhero Ongoing Clinging X Men

Author:Grant Morrison

“If I never explore my limits, my bodymind will gradually tighten and become unconscious. If I regularly explore my limits in a caring and adventuresome fashion, I will expand and grow in a vital fashion. But if I try to push myself past where I am honestly able to go, I will no longer be practicing yoga but instead will be practicing greed, and I will probably be met by pain and disease. Stated simply, it is the difference between ignoring your self, making love to yourself, and raping yourself.”

Ifs Trying Self Able Pain Past Grows Differences Fashion Mets Limits Disease Yoga Greed Caring Honestly Unconscious Making Love

Author:Ken Dychtwald

“The Secret Service said there have been 40 fence-jumping incidents at the White House in the past five years. Half of them were intruders trying to get in. The other half was President Obama trying to get out.”

Trying Years Has Beens Said Past House President White Secret Half Five Five Years White House President Obama Fence Jumping Incidents Other Half Secret Service Intruders

Author:Conan O'Brien

“There is not one piece of artwork I have ever done that lived up to the vision I had for it in my head. That's why I keep on trying. Maybe someday I'll do it. I don't want to be in the past. I want to get to the next thing.”

Want Trying Book Done Past Next Vision Pieces Comic Someday Comic Book Artwork One Piece Maybe Someday

Author:Jim Steranko

“When I was a young girl salmon fishing with my father in the Straits of Juan de Fuca in Washington State I used to lean out over the water and try to look past my own face, past the reflection of the boat, past the sun and darkness, down to where the fish were surely swimming. I made up charm songs and word-hopes to tempt the fish, to cause them to mean biting my hook. I believed they would do it if I asked them well and patiently and with the right hope. I am writing my poems like this. I have used the fabric and the people of my life as the bait.”

“I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me. The horse is out of the barn... In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don't try to play younger than I really am.”

People Thinking Trying Important Play Age Able Past Generations Talent Late Horse Tricks Too Late Barns Past Generations

Author:Clint Eastwood

“I can't do anything with what's happened in the past. I have to just go forward with the most awareness I can going forward and trying to be the best I can be for our team.”

Trying I Can Past Happened Team Awareness Being The Best

Author:Tom Brady

“I feel that in the past, my style has shown itself to be capable of handling dark and light in the same paragraph, or even in the same sentence. That's something I almost take for granted. I think it was more a concern to get the details right and persuasively recreate the world I was trying to write about.”

Thinking World Feels Writing Trying Light Past Dark Style Capable Concern Details Sentences Granted Paragraph

Author:Michael Chabon

“How readily we wish time spent revoked, that we might try the ground again where once--through inexperience, as we now perceive--we missed that happiness we might have found!”

Trying Might Past Found Wish Perceive Time Spent Inexperience

Book:The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham

Source: The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham

“Any time you lose a few in a row, you have to hit reset and come back tomorrow and do the best you can to forget about how the past series went. It's frustrating. Individually it's frustrating. I'm trying to figure it out. And I know as a team, it sucks losing a few in a row any time. So you know, we'll snap out of it.”

Knows Trying Past Loses Forget Team Figures Tomorrow Losing Series Frustrating Do The Best Snaps Reset

Author:Adam LaRoche

“I dare say you will try to make me believe that Editors are human. Now I deny that, for I myself have, in past days, had evidence to the contrary.”

Trying Believe Humans Past Evidence Dare Deny Contrary Editors

Book:Caper-sauce: A Volume of Chit-chat about Men, Women, and Things

Source: Caper-sauce: A Volume of Chit-chat about Men, Women, and Things

“The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful.”

Trying Past Successful Operations

Author:Mary McCarthy

“The past is gone. I know it sounds cliché, but you're here. Like be in it. And boxing was a really good analogy for me to try and carry that in my everyday life all the time.”

Knows Trying Past Sound Gone Everyday Boxing Everyday Life Analogies

Author:Hilary Swank

“In becoming archaeologists of the world of our mothers, we are trying to retrieve the female past and to invent a future.”

World Trying Past Mother History Becoming Female Archaeologists

Book:Among women

Source: Among women

“the difficult art I was attempting had, indeed a powerful fascination, before which the past faded, the future receded, and the whole of experience narrowed down to this stretch of glancing, glimmering water, and the fly I was trying to cast across it.”

Trying Art Whole Past Difficult Water Powerful Casts Fishing Attempting Fascination Faded

Author:Mary Stewart

“The past is already past. Don't try to regain it. The present does not stay. Don't try to touch it from moment to moment. The future has not come. Don't think about it beforehand.”

Thinking Trying Doe Moments Past

Author:Layman Pang

“People spend thousands in therapy digging and digging in the past. When you dig and dig, you find relics. Try to forgive yourself and get back on that ride.”

People Trying Past Forgiving Therapy Get Back Digging Forgive Yourself Relics

Author:Richard Simmons

“Pain is like a new room in your house that you never knew you had. If you had known, you would have bolted and locked the room past any entering. But truly, it is a room like any other, four glaring white walls and a dark hard floor, and if you don't try to get out, it is possible to remain in it. Once you tried to get out, you ... couldn't ... stand ... it. Don't think of getting out.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Hard Pain Past House Dark White Rooms Known Four Wall Locked Entering White Walls

Book:Seed of Mischief

Source: Seed of Mischief

“It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.”

Thinking Trying Wells May Facts Past Law Strange Equal Degrees Fundamentals Opening Our Thoughts Backwards Metaphysical Opening Up

Book:Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking

Source: Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking

“Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past.”

Trying Past Design Failure Vain Complaints Morrow Another Time

Book:Letters of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Source: Letters of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

“But as an actor you do want to challenge yourself and step outside what you have done in the past and that what I like to do, I like to jump around and try different things and stretch myself.”

Want Trying Different Done Past Actors Challenges Steps Different Things Challenge Yourself

Author:Mary Elizabeth Winstead

“I can safely say that I had an incredibly difficult and trying past growing up and trying to be an artist and standing up as who I am in this world.”

World Trying I Can Past Artist Difficult Growing Up Growing This World Standing Who I Am

Author:Matt Bomer

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