“When I started studying acting in New York, I didn't plan to be an action hero. I just wanted to learn acting because I felt it was something I needed to try to do for myself, to express something, my inner pain, or something I couldn't get out.” TryingActionWantedPainFeltActingStudyPlansNew YorkHeroNeededAction Heroes Author:Dolph Lundgren
“I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.” TryingYearsAmericaParentHalfStudyGroupsSixExcellentPermissionBostonScholarshipYaleConsultingHalf A Year Author:Indra Nooyi
“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.” TryingMadeAbilityStudyDesignExpressionSkillsAspectListenersObserversFacialFacial ExpressionAstute Author:Daniel H. Pink
“Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this.” TryingLanguageStudyPsychologyStatementsEnglish Language Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“I see the people in the tabloids, the ones that get bad press, who have kind of gone off the edge, and I try to study them so that I don't do that. It seems like they lost focus at some point - that's the one thing they all have in common.” PeopleTryingKindSeemsLostCommonGoneStudyFocusOne ThingPressesEdgesTabloidsBad Press Author:Cory Monteith
“The only place where you could see life and death, i. e., violent death now that the wars were over, was in the bull ring and I wanted very much to go to Spain where I could study it. I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.” WritingTryingWarWantedStudyFundamentalsRingsViolentLife And DeathSimplestSpainBullsViolent Death Book:Death in the Afternoon Source: Death in the Afternoon
“I just think I'm better equipped to make a study of human personality than trying to get into the mind of animals.” ThinkingTryingMindHumansAnimalStudyPersonalityHuman Personality Author:Sara Gruen
“Studying the universe engages us in something bigger than ourselves. Science tries to describe, in terms we can only grasp intuitively, things that are beyond our intuition. . . . all we can hope for is that our physical descriptions, like a song or a good painting, are a faithful evocation of some ineffable truth.” TryingSongUniverseTermStudyPaintingIntellectualBiggerIntuitionFaithfulDescriptionIneffable Author:Guy Consolmagno
“This is so rich a country that luxury has developed at the expense of necessities, and even the destitute partake of the luxury. We are the rich country of the world, like Dives at the feast. We must try hard, we must study to be poor like Lazarus at the gate, who was taken into Abraham's bosom.” WorldTryingCountryHardPoorStudyRichTakenLuxuryGatesExpensesConsumerismBosomsAbrahamOverconsumptionDestituteRich CountriesCountries Of The WorldLazarus Author:Dorothy Day
“I always try to have a book on hand, traveling is an excellent way of providing perspective, and studying Art History has made going to art museums way more fun than you can imagine.” WayTryingArtMadeBookHandsFunStudyImaginePerspectiveExcellentMuseumsProvidingArt HistoryStudying Art Author:Gideon Glick
“If we taught music the way we try to teach engineering, in an unbroken four year course, we could end up with all theory and no music. When we study music, we start to practice from the beginning, and we practice for the entire time.” IfsWayTryingYearsEndsCoursesTeachPracticeStudyFourTeachingTaughtTheoryFour YearsEngineeringUnbroken Author:Charles Kettering
“I recommend that you should work actively... and study the artistic structures of Rubens, Rembrandt, Titian, Watteau, Poussin, and other painters, even Chardin, where he is an artist. Study very closely their dabbing manner of execution and try to copy a small piece of canvas, just one square inch.” ShouldTryingArtistStudyPiecesMastersStructurePainterArtisticJust OneCopiesSquaresInchesExecutionCanvasSmall PiecesRubens Author:Kazimir Malevich
“I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I reflect, and out of all of this I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can.” TryingI CanIdeasFormCommonStudyCommon Sense Author:Marquis de Lafayette