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“One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer.”

Giving Trying Actors Interesting Directors Performers Observers Small Things Really Interesting

Author:Janet Suzman

“Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations.”

People Writing Trying Kind Imagination Basements

Author:John Sandford

“There are Eastern religions that deny the reality of pain and suffering. They just try to wipe it away by saying it's all an illusion.”

Trying Reality Pain Suffering Illusion Deny Eastern Wipe Pain And Suffering

Author:Lee Strobel

“Some people like destroying for the hell of it; they love destroying beauty; they try to feel those people and then crack the egg.”

People Feels Trying Hell Eggs Cracks Destroying

Author:Frederick Lenz

“People will try to block you. Some will do it just for pure hostility. But most others are just afraid of themselves.”

People Trying Pure Block Hostility

Author:Frederick Lenz

“People try to get into your life. They try and keep you off-balance, keep you from making good decisions that will empower you - because if your attention field is sharp - you will see if anyone is in your life for ill reasons.”

People Ifs Trying Reason Decision Attention Fields Balance Ill Empowering Good Decision

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Naturally, along the way, there are beings and forces that will challenge you. They want to try and get some of your power, take it away from you, all this nonsense, and of course, you just defeat them.”

Way Want Trying Courses Force Challenges Defeat Nonsense Away From You

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Don't listen to voices. If you hear voices talking to you, forget it. Disregard the information, even if it is right occasionally. You are dealing with non-physical forces that are trying to influence you.”

Ifs Trying Force Voice Forget Talking Influence Information Forget It Disregard Physical Force

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There's a real difference between venture capitalism and vulture capitalism. Venture capitalism we like. Vulture capitalism, no. And the fact of the matter is that he's going to have to face up to this at some time or another, and South Carolina is as good a place to draw that line in the sand as any.”

“We have endless books about whether Jesus existed, or whether the Jesus we have learned about is really accurate and historical or mythical. We have endless complicated tracts on fine technical issues, but we don't explore Jesus' way to happiness and peace, or try to understand his feelings about God and creation of how he views our relationship with God, or his attitude toward human weakness. Understanding these things could help us immensely in our own search for inner peace and a meaning to life.”

“It's more frustrating. My expectation probably wasn't that I'd play [during the playoffs], but I was just trying to make sure that if there was any chance that it was possible to come back that I was ready and that I'd done everything I could to be ready. It's frustrating, disappointing. But can't really control any of that.”

Ifs Trying Done Play Sports Chance Ready Training Expectations Preparation Frustrating Disappointing Playoffs

Author:Sidney Crosby

“Try to think of writing as a gift - more complexly put: it is the curse and the cure.”

Thinking Writing Trying Cures Curse

Author:Julianna Baggott

“All of the systems that present different worlds, planes of being and energy centers ultimately fail if you try to make them all-inclusive. They are symbolic representations of something that lies beyond the world of thought and analysis.”

Ifs World Trying Different Wisdom Lying Energy Failing Buddhism Planes Analysis Representation Symbolic Different Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When the answer doesn't come, it's not supposed to come yet. Don't make eternity try and conform to what you want. That's desire. desire leads to frustration.”

Want Trying Wisdom Desire Answers Buddhism Eternity What You Want Frustration Conform

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Honestly admitting what you lost and not trying to rationalize it or push it off is an important step in self-assessment and mindfulness.”

Trying Important Self Wisdom Lost Steps Buddhism Mindfulness Honestly Assessment Admitting Rationalize Self Assessment

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In martial arts one of the first things that you learn is to be balanced. Balance is the central principle in architecture and design. Balance is a way of trying to talk about being at the center of things.”

Way Trying Firsts Art Principles Design Buddhism Balance Architecture Martial Arts Balanced Architecture And Design

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Whenever you take the time to inspire someone, to aid them in their inner search, you'll find energy will come back to you - unless you are ego tripping or you are trying to manipulate them.”

Trying Energy Inspire Buddhism Balance Ego Aids Manipulate Tripping

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Eventually you're supposed to get so confounded by this whole thing that you just give up completely, and that's when it starts to work. Not give up the practice, but give up trying to figure it out.”

Giving Trying Whole Practice Figures Buddhism Balance Giving Up Not Giving Up Just Give Up

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is a whole crazy world around you. You can't control it, so don't even try. Because the more you try to control your environment, the more it controls you.”

World Trying Whole Happiness Environment Crazy Buddhism Our Environment Crazy World

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Stop trying to do things that will make you happy. Happiness is a state of mind; because otherwise, you are a slave to circumstance.”

Trying Mind States Happiness Buddhism Circumstances Slave State Of Mind Make You Happy Stop Trying

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Practice smiling for five minutes. Stop trying to meditate. Just smile. Let your smile get bigger and bigger. Oh, you're unhappy, you're miserable, nothing is working in life, it doesn't matter. Smile anyway.”

Trying Matter Happiness Practice Five Minutes Buddhism Bigger Unhappy Miserable Five Minutes Stop Trying Your Smile Just Smile

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The rich aren't happy so they try and get richer thinking it will make a difference. The poor aren't happy. They try and get rich thinking that will make a difference.”

Thinking Trying Happiness Differences Poor Rich Buddhism Making A Difference Get Rich

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you are not as happy as you used to be, chances are you are not meditating properly. You may be trying to skip steps. You are using power incorrectly. Your motives are not pure. You don't vibrate quickly.”

Ifs Trying May Happiness Used Chance Steps Buddhism Pure Used To Be Motive Chances Are Meditating Skip Vibrate

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is only when we are by ourselves that we can know others. When we are with other human beings we are distracted. People try and dream us into their dreams.”

People Knows Trying Humans Dream Nature Human Beings Buddhism Distracted

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Don't try to hold people to you, don't try to push them away. Let life do everything for you. This is the proper attitude on the path of love.”

People Trying Attitude Path Buddhism Sexuality Old People Path Of Love

Author:Frederick Lenz

“An imbalanced association is when one or both parties become abusive and takes unfair advantage, tries to block another's enlightenment or success.”

Trying Party Buddhism Enlightenment Advantage Sexuality Block Association Unfair Abusive Unfair Advantage

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You are trying to pierce the veil, to break through the Frisbee so that it doesn't exist, to break through the football so it doesn't exist, and to break through your opponent so they don't exist.”

Trying Break Football Health Buddhism Opponents Veils Athletics Break Through Pierce Frisbee

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I'm not trouble at all. I'm just a guy trying to get a girl to give him the time of day. I'm like every song on the radio.”

Giving Trying Guy Song Girl Trouble Radio Time Of Day Get A Girl

Author:Hailey Abbott

“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

“It's not that you get a cliché and then wiggle it about or use synonyms. You don't take an ordinary decorative paragraph and give it style. What you're trying to do is be faithful to your perceptions and transmit them as faithfully as you can. I say these sentences until they sound right. There's no objective reason why they're right. They just sound right to me.”

Giving Writing Trying Reason Use Sound Style Perception Ordinary Sentences Objectives Reason Why Faithful Paragraph Transmit Being Faithful Synonym

Author:Martin Amis

“How on earth could that be done? If you try to laugh and say 'No' at the same time, it sounds like neighing - yet people are perpetually doing it in novels. If they did it in real life they would be locked up.”

People Ifs Writing Trying Real Done Would Be Earth Sound Novel Laughing Real Life Locked Locked Up

Author:Hilaire Belloc

“In one deep sense, novels are concealed autobiography. I don't mean that you are telling facts about yourself, but you are trying to find out what you really think or who you are.”

Thinking Writing Trying Mean Facts Novel Who You Are About Yourself Autobiography Concealed One Deep

Author:Robert Penn Warren

“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

“People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don't.' Gee, I sound shallow. But I don't react to current events or other stimuli. I don't read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the drawing table and getting silly.”

People Want Trying Looks Ideas Sound Watches Laughing Events Tvs Sitting Tables Folks Currents Drawing Silly Shallow Cartoon Stimulus Sitting Down Current Events Deep Meaning

Author:Gary Larson

“I try to avoid saying 'fantastic' too often and 'obviously' is a dangerous word for all broadcasters.”

Trying Dangerous Fantastic Broadcasters

Author:Gary Lineker

“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

“It was like pulling teeth trying to get me to L.A. I hated it for so long, but now I've got this great life here.”

Trying Long Teeth Hated Pulling

Author:Jennifer Lawrence

“Usually people have gone through years of in vitro, just trying. The dilemma that faces infertile couples right now in America, there's so many of them. That's why - you know that's why I started talking about it, so that they didn't hear just the terrible stories.”

People Knows Trying Years Stories America Faces Talking Gone Couple Terrible Right Now Dilemma Through The Years

Author:Joan Lunden

“I would rather be erring on the side of common-sense pragmatism and doing everything possible so that I felt that no stone was left unturned in terms of trying to protect school children.”

Trying Children School Left Felt Sides Term Common Protect Stones Common Sense Pragmatism Erring

Author:John B. Larson

“Like most photographers, I try to capture a moment in my work.”

Trying Moments Photographer Capture

Author:Julian Lennon

“I just try to live a really simple, natural life, because obviously, life has an impact on your voice.”

Trying Voice Natural Simple Impact Natural Life

Author:K. D. Lang

“I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.”

Trying Speak Involved Moved

Author:K. D. Lang

“I never, my producer never, we never let myself just sing. We were always trying to get the perfect vocal.”

Trying Perfect Producers Vocal Always Trying

Author:K. D. Lang

“I've just grown a little disappointed with 'Muppets in the Old West', 'Muppets Under Water' and all these weird concept movies. I just want to go take it back to the early 80's, when it was about the Muppets trying to put on a show. That's what I'm trying to bring back.”

Want Trying Littles Shows Water Concepts West Disappointed Muppet Old West

Author:Jason Segel

“We've got another nominee coming up, well qualified, Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owens has a tremendous reputation, tremendous record, but they are already marshalling their forces to try to stop that nomination.”

Trying Wells Force Justice Records Court Supreme Reputation Texas Supreme Court Qualified Nominations Supreme Court Justice Court Justice

Author:Jay Sekulow

“It's always special when you're young and you have a vision for something you want to do, and somebody takes a moment to connect with you. Now if there are kids on the set I try to talk to them for a bit.”

Ifs Want Trying Moments Kids Young Bits Vision Special

Author:Jeremy Sumpter

“I'm not an angry person. When I write, the lawyer in me tries to make it as easy to read as possible.”

Writing Trying Persons Easy Angry Lawyer Angry Person

Author:Joe Scarborough

“I don't feel my best right now, but at the same time, I'm not trying to find any excuses or anything.”

Feels Trying Right Now Excuse

Author:Johan Santana

“I try to do my best to have fun off the court.”

Trying Fun Court Having Fun

Author:Marat Safin

“'I think as a guy you need a little bit to be on your own from early on, to start to live your own life, and try to understand what is going on around you, you have to be able to survive...”

Thinking Needs Trying Littles Able Guy Bits Little Bit Live Your Own Life

Author:Marat Safin

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