“It's a good feeling to see the kids try to make it, try to get to the big leagues. Everyone here has an opportunity to achieve his dream. I was lucky I was able to achieve my dream.” TryingFeelingsDreamBigsKidsAbleOpportunityAchieveLuckyLeagueGood Feeling Author:Tony Oliva
“I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid.” ThinkingTryingFirstsPersonsAchieve Author:Sonny Rollins
“Families can be the most detrimental things to have in your life. They are sometimes the most poisonous relationships that people have. Sometimes family is the thing that keeps you from ever achieving what you want to achieve, and yet people hold it and hold it and grab it and try to fix it and twist it and turn it.” PeopleWantTryingSometimesTurnsAchieveWhat You WantTwistsPoisonousDetrimental Author:Amy Sherman-Palladino
“Especially with a comedy, you've got the clear cut goal of trying to make a scene funny. It's not like drama where you're trying to achieve some kind of emotion or trying to further the story along. You're trying to figure out what's the funniest way to do something.” WayTryingKindStoriesGoalEmotionClearComedyCuttingAchieveFiguresDramaScene Author:Luke Wilson
“When you're a kid and you're trying to find your own voice, it's rather daunting to hear somebody like Howlin' Wolf, because you know that you'll never achieve that.” KnowsTryingKidsVoiceAchieveHowlin Wolf Author:Tom Waits
“To be successful, you really have to put your ego in the background and try to be diplomatic to achieve what you want to achieve.” WantTryingSuccessfulAchieveEgoWhat You WantBackgroundsBeing SuccessfulDiplomatic Author:Ken Adam
“One thing that I think works in 'Casablanca' and which I've lectured a lot about - in terms of what I've been trying to achieve as a designer - is the film's creation of its own form of reality.” ThinkingTryingRealityFilmFormTermOne ThingAchieveCreationDesigner Author:Ken Adam
“When we speak of God or achieving union with God, we are often merely trying to put that great thing into a small container. One cannot drive a camel through the eye of a needle.” TryingEyeSpeakAchieveUnionsGreat ThingsNeedlesThrough The EyesCamelsContainers Author:Chogyam Trungpa
“Three or four stones in one firing will all react differently. I try to achieve a balance between those that haven't progressed enough and those about to go too far.” TryingEnoughThreeFourAchieveHavensBalanceStonesFiring Author:Andy Goldsworthy
“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.” TryingMeanAchieveExpressionRegardImpactHardestClaritySensationsPlasticMaximumAggressiveness Author:Joan Miro
“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.” ShouldTryingPastAchieveBirthGloryConnectionsFormerRelyArbitrary Author:Shirley Franklin
“Not trying is the surest way of achieving nothing at all.” WayTryingAchieveEncouragement Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“You should never go to a meeting or make a telephone call without a clear idea of what you are trying to achieve.” ShouldTryingIdeasClearAchieveDisciplineMeetingsSelf DisciplineTelephonesDecisiveness Author:Steve Jobs
“We have to put in our time every day to try and achieve and learn so that we can develop our talents and each of you, thank goodness, have special talents; each of you are special persons.” TryingPersonsAchieveSpecialTalentGoodnessOur TimeThank YouSpecial Talents Author:Bruce Vento
“Those opportunity gaps begin early, often at birth. And they compound over time, becoming harder and harder to bridge, making too many young men and women feel like, no matter how hard they try, they may never achieve their dreams.” MenFeelsTryingMayMatterHardDreamYoungOpportunityAchieveBirthBecomingMen And WomenHarderBridgesYoung ManGapsCompounds Author:Barack Obama
“If you feel overwhelmed, you may be trying to achieve too much at once. Step back and look at your goals. If you're doing too much, it's time to reprioritize.” IfsFeelsTryingLooksMayGoalStepsToo MuchAchieveStressOverwhelmed Author:Lauren Mackler
“If you try to impose a rigid discipline while teaching a child or a chimp you are working against the boundless curiosity and need for relaxed play that make learning possible in the first place... learning cannot be controlled; it is out of control by design. Learning emerges spontaneously, it proceeds in an individualistic and unpredictable way, and it achieves its goal in its own good time. Once triggered, learning will not stop--unless it is hijacked by conditioning.” IfsWayNeedsTryingFirstsChildrenPlayGoalTeachingAchieveDesignDisciplineCuriosityGood TimesControlledUnpredictableRelaxedConditioningBoundlessIndividualistic Author:Roger Fouts
“Civilization tries to persuade us we are going towards something, a distant goal. We have forgotten that our only goal is to live, to live each and every day, and that if we live each and every day, our true goal is achieved.” IfsInspirationalTryingPurposeGoalAchieveCivilizationAchievementAimEverydayForgottenLive LifeAccomplishmentLiving My LifeLive Life HappyOne Life To LiveLifetime Achievement Author:Jean Giono