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“The biggest danger is trying to put too much pressure on yourself, trying to get in too good shape.”

“I try to find nice chord changes, that's how I love to start, and then I start trying to knock it into a song, knock it into shape.”

Trying Song Nice Shapes Chords

Author:Jeff Lynne

“What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.”

Trying Art Form Building Shapes Construction

Author:Peter Zumthor

“What I so like about Poussin and Cezanne is their sense of organization. Ilike the way in which they develop space and shape in architecturalcontinuity - the rhythm across their paintings. When I paint a landscape, Iget the greatest pleasure out of composing it. As I paint, I try to work outa visual sonata form or a fugue, with realistic images.”

Way Trying Form Space Pleasure Painting Shapes Organization Paint Work Out Rhythm Landscape Visuals Realistic Composing Greatest Pleasures Fugue Sonatas Cezanne

Author:Ian Hornak

“I spent many years trying to write a lot like Ben Folds or John Lennon or Rivers Cuomo. I think that's healthy when you're learning to write and seeing how chords fit together and how songs take shape.”

Thinking Writing Trying Years Together Song Seeing Fit Healthy Shapes Rivers Chords Folds Lennon

Author:Andrew Dost

“I want to try to come away from that one directional, clear rectangular form. It's not used because it's the most beautiful form; it's just the practical thing. That's why our TVs are rectangles. Even in modern architecture, they want us to believe, "That's the nicest, most beautiful thing." I love modern architecture, but actually it's that they cannot afford amorphous shapes or ornaments.”

Want Trying Believe Beautiful Form Used Clear Modern Tvs Shapes Architecture Practicals Beautiful Things Want U Ornaments Things I Love Modern Architecture Rectangles Practical Things

Author:Pipilotti Rist

“I think that's what Dylan's trying to do: to create a space artistically where something else can take shape, can take life - where there's hope.”

Thinking Trying Space Shapes Dylan

Author:Sean Wilentz

“I have settled down in this border area; I am trying to find distinct standards of shape, and I long to experience, formulate, and evoke this dark, heavy, tranquillity.”

Trying Long Peace Dark Shapes Standards Areas Heavy Borders Evoke Tranquillity

Book:Arnulf Rainer: an exhibition

Source: Arnulf Rainer: an exhibition

“I had been in the gym training for many, many years, but I definitely stepped it up when it was time to get into shape to play 'Lights'. I began trying to live the life of a boxer, and that means everything that you would expect.”

Trying Years Mean Play Light Shapes Training Live Life Gym Boxers Gym Training

Author:Holt McCallany

“Heartbreak is our indication of sincerity: in a love relationship, in a work, in trying to learn a musical instrument, in the attempt to shape a better more generous self. Heartbreak is the beautifully helpless side of love and affection and is just as much an essence and emblem of care as the spiritual athlete's quick but abstract ability to let go... But heartbreak may be the very essence of being human, of being on the journey from here to there, and of coming to care deeply for what we find along the way.”

“What we assert, very often can become our reality. To some degree, everybody can try to shape and control their fate. Everybody picks an identity.”

Trying Reality Fate Identity Shapes Degrees Picks Often Can

Author:David O. Russell

“If you raise your standards but don't really believe you can meet them, you've already sabotaged yourself. You won't even try; you'll be lacking the sense of certainty that allows you to tap the deepest capacity that's within you... Our beliefs are like unquestioned commands, telling us how things are, what's possible and impossible and what we can and can not do. They shape every action, every thought and every feeling that we experience. As a result, changing our belief systems is central to making any real and lasting change in our lives.”

“I try to stay in the best physical shape that I can because I do most of my own stunts. It looks amazing if you can do it, but I dont advocate it because you always get injured.”

Ifs Trying Looks I Can Can Do My Own Shapes You Can Do It Injured

Author:Raymond Cruz

“Throughout their lives, women try to pummel their bodies into some phantom ideal shape that exists only with a lot of airbrushing. ... I don't blame men for this. Men seem to go for us no matter what size and shape we are. I blame capitalism. No, really. The consumer must constantly be in a state of anxious low self-esteem so that she will constantly buy lipsticks and girdles to make her feel cuter.”

“I had no plan for that year but it wound up being one of the most important years of my football coaching career. It hit me along the way that I needed to really get at the heart of what's really true to myself. And then I was able to mold it and shape it in the years at SC to become the approach and the concept and the culture that we try to create here at Seattle.”

“I don't get too upset or bent out of shape from things that go on on the field. But I think that you always want to try to keep it classy. You don't want to do any stupid fouls, and sometimes - sometimes the game gets to you; people react differently.”

People Thinking Want Trying Sometimes Games Stupid Fields Goes On Shapes Upset Bent

Author:Carli Lloyd

“Don't live vicariously through your kids or try to shape them into who you wanted to be, like the popular kid or an athlete. Children should be given the opportunity to be themselves.”

Should Trying Children Kids Wanted Opportunity Given Shapes Athlete

Author:Joan Cusack

“I try to visualize geometric shapes and patterns slowly spinning and expanding into infinity.”

Trying Shapes Patterns Infinity Expanding Spinning Geometric Geometric Shapes

Author:Martina McBride

“I am discovering that in trying to find God's will and the shape of the Christian life I have begun an adventure so great that its total completion will always be ahead.”

Trying Christian Adventure Shapes Gods Will Christian Life Discovering Completion

Author:Keith Miller

“Keeping your body in shape is a spiritual discipline. Its not just about losing a few pounds, wanting to live longer, or trying to look nicer.”

Trying Looks Body Spiritual Discipline Shapes Losing Your Body Pounds Spiritual Disciplines

Author:Rick Warren

“I'm just trying to keep myself in basketball shape and take care of my body while I can.”

Trying I Can Body Care Shapes Basketball Take Care

Author:Terry Rozier

“I can picture the color of the song, or the shape of it, or who it is that I'm trying to appeal to, in the song, and what I'm trying to, almost, reinforce my feelings for. And I know that sounds sort of vague and abstract, but I've got a handle on it when I'm doing it.”

Knows Trying I Can Feelings Song Sound Color Shapes Handle Appeals Abstract Vague

Author:Bob Dylan

“I think great relationships are great partnerships, and those come in all shapes, sizes, forms, ages. The only tip I have for anyone in a relationship or a partnership is work on it when it's good. It's very easy to try to take the break when things are going good, but that's the time you have to keep working on it, because you can keep it good, and that's worth a lot.”

Thinking Trying Age Form Easy Break Shapes Size Partnership Great Relationship

Author:Ashton Kutcher

“I've worked with multiple directors throughout the 'Saw' series with a lot of conversations as they bring their particular installment to the screen. If I've been able to do anything throughout the course of these films, it's been to help shape dialogue and to try to make things as delicate and as intelligent as I can.”

Ifs Trying I Can Helping Able Film Courses Saws Particular Shapes Directors Conversation Intelligent Series Screens Dialogue Delicate Multiple

Author:Tobin Bell

“I try to stay in decent shape always. I pride myself on staying at least a month away from really good shape.”

Trying Pride Months Shapes Decent Staying

Author:Jim Carrey

“I've been trying to make records and I describe it almost like a "movie for your ears" where it's a little unconventional in its shape and form, but there's something that's intriguing in keeping you wanting to wait and see the next frame of film, except in here what's coming around the corner for your ears.”

Trying Littles Film Form Next Waiting Records Shapes Ears Corners Intriguing Around The Corner Unconventional

Author:Billy Sherwood

“Every now and then I will play; I try to focus on charitable work. I might do it because it's an offer I can't refuse, so I rally and try to stay in shape and keep myself active.”

Trying I Can Play Might Focus Offers Shapes Refuse Active Now And Then Charitable Charitable Work

Author:Andre Agassi

“I do try hard to pick roles that differ. I love that about the job. I think the variety that's out there is to be taken advantage of and I enjoy that element of shape shifting with everything.”

Thinking Trying Hard Jobs Enjoy Roles Taken Shapes Elements Picks Advantage Variety Shifting Taken Advantage

Author:Emily Blunt

“With non-fiction writing I feel like I'm confined and driven by what actually happened. That makes the "plot". So it's a process of getting all of my notes typed up, then scanning through the notes, trying to extract or find certain vignettes that seem like they might write well - that might have a potential for good energy, shape, etc. And then at some point I start stringing these together, keeping an eye on the word count.”

Feels Writing Trying Wells Seems Might Eye Together Certain Energy Process Fiction Happened Shapes Notes Driven Etc Plot Confined Non Fiction Fiction Writing Good Energy Scanning Vignettes

Author:George Saunders

“You did not tell me what you are doing athletically just now but I do hope that if your arm comes along next spring you can get it in good shape to try out for the pitching spot on the varsity. However, if you don't make it then I suggest you take up golf which after all is the best game of all of them.”

Ifs Trying Next Games Sports Arms Shapes Spring Golf Spots Pitching

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“As you get older, it gets harder to get rid of that belly but I do a lot of cardio to try to stay in shape.”

Trying Shapes Harder Belly Cardio

Author:Frank Thomas

“Rugby has always been a game for all shapes and sizes. You have the superstars and the fast guys who score the tries, but you also need the workhorses and the people who play all the other roles. Unless they all work together as a team then it's really going to affect the performance. Everyone's got to rely on everyone else.”

People Needs Trying Play Together Guy Games Roles Team Shapes Performances Size Rely Score Working Together Rugby Superstar

Author:Warren Gatland

“So I really love this very difficult feeling of being completely out at sea. I don't know what I'm doing, and I kind of like this feeling. So I think for the moment, I'm going to continue to try and nail film down in some sort of shape where I'm happy with it.”

Thinking Knows Trying Kind Moments Feelings Film Difficult Sea Shapes Nails

Author:Dave McKean

“Many people think there's nothing they can do to change their karma - it's preordained so why bother trying to change their situation? This is what scares people. These folks think that to accept the reality of karma one must be passive. It simply isn't true. Karma is active. We can - in the blink of an eye - make decisions that will shape our futures and transform the parts of our lives that are causing us unhappiness.”

Source: The Power of Karma: How to Understand Your Past and Shape Your Future

“And the camera position, the organization, looking for repeating forms, shapes, trying to set up a visual rhythm seemed to come very natural. All of a sudden I was in a forest of aluminum and steel rather than a forest that we might think of in a traditional sense.”

Thinking Trying Might Form Artist Natural Position Shapes Organization Cameras Photographer Forests Traditional Rhythm Visuals Steel Aluminum

Author:John Sexton

“They ignore what is deep and true to a man's heart, his real passions, and simply try to shape him up through various forms of pressure.”

Men Trying Heart Real Form Passion Shapes Pressure Various

Book:Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul

Source: Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul

“I try to stay in good physical shape, I don't smoke, I don't drink.”

Trying Drink Shapes Smoke Gym

Author:Mickey Spillane

“People build continuity into their life: Places, friends and goals. We go to work on Monday with plans for Friday night, enroll as freshmen intending to be seniors and save money for retirement. We try to control what comes next and shape it to meet our will.”

People Trying Night Next Goal Plans Shapes Retirement Senior Monday Friday Continuity Saving Money Freshman Friday Night

Book:One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer

Source: One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer

“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

“If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control-myself. I can stop trying to shape up my wife and can work on my own weaknesses. I can focus an being a great marriage partner, a source of unconditional love and support. Hopefully, my wife will feel the power of proactive example and respond in kind. But, whether she does or doesn't, the most positive way I can influence my situation is to work on myself, on my being.”

“A lot of the people I'm working with are not actors, or it's their first time in a movie. I'm not trying to shape performances, coax performances out of them. It's more like I want to put them in situations that naturally work or allow them to be themselves. If it's not happening, I'll just completely switch it up, rather than trying to make it work.”

People Ifs Want Trying Firsts Actors Situation Shapes Happenings First Time Performances

Author:Joe Swanberg

“I never start a section of the story without knowing how it will end. I also consciously try to shape the story as though it were a movie.”

Trying Ends Stories Knowing Shapes Sections

Author:Dave Barry

“Sometimes, you just let the country have its way, and you don't try to determine the shape of the country. You sort of modestly step back and let the country figure out what it believes.”

Way Trying Believe Country Sometimes Steps Figures Shapes Determine

Author:Mark Shields

“I try to stay in decent shape.”

Trying Shapes Decent

Author:D. J. Cotrona

“I'm just trying to get my body in shape so that I can handle it. It's a very physically demanding thing. I've been doing it for 16 years, so I know what I'm going into now. I'm trying to stay calm and not panic.”

Knows Trying Years I Can Body Shapes Calm Handle Panic Stay Calm

Author:Andrew Bird

“Merely that you start off with ideas buzzing around in your head, and then you try to give them the simpler, more graceful shape, of a feeling that a reader might share. You learn to sing with, not argue at, your possible readers.”

Giving Trying Ideas Feelings Might Share Reader Shapes Arguing

Author:Adam Gopnik

“Sometimes you know about a job four months in advance. Sometimes you know about a job four days in advance. It's all different, and my thing is just to try to stay prepared. It's like being a boxer. You never know when you're going to get your next fight, so you have to just stay in shape, mentally and physically and creatively.”

Knows Trying Different Sometimes Jobs Fighting Next Four Months Shapes Prepared Boxers

Author:Michael Rapaport

“Naturally, women are drawn to a man who understands the subtlety of emotions, and they know I'm a passionate man. But the reason I try to keep myself in shape is so I can sing better, not to look good.”

Knows Men Trying Looks I Can Reason Emotion Shapes Passionate Subtlety

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“It's a reality of art that the fewer lines you get, the harder it is. Cartooning is actually harder than realism. You have less to work with. It's like trying to build a house-if you have unlimited resources, you're in much better shape than if you get two bricks, a hammer, and a bent nail.”

Ifs Trying Art Two Reality House Lines Shapes Resources Harder Fewer Realism Nails Bent Unlimited Bricks Hammers

Author:Ursula Vernon

“The problem with trying to make a film good and have it work for an audience is the problem of trying to tell a story well. The shape or the color of it doesn't matter.”

Trying Wells Matter Stories Problem Film Audience Color Shapes

Author:James Frain

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