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"There is no cultivation of patience when your pattern is to just try to seek harmony and smooth everything out. Patience implies willingness to be alive rather than trying to seek harmony."
"Trying to run away is never the answer to being a fully human. Running away from the immediacy of our experience is like preferring death to life."
"I find that the dead-end route is to try to describe what's going on in your mouth."
"Try and identify where the money can go to create conditions for true systemic change."
"Things like science and technology still leave some gaps, so it's not as if everybody was sitting around doing nothing, but the bureaucracy and the whole structure of our culture is basically built out of men trying to be legitimate and making things up so they look important."
"Effective innovations start small. They are not grandiose. They try to do one specific thing."
"We can't make people better by trying to eliminate their weaknesses, but we can help then perform better by building on their strengths."
"Keep the boss aware. Bosses, after all, are held responsible by their own bosses for the performance of their subordinates. They must be able to say: "I know what Anne [or John] is trying to do.""
"Too many leaders try to do a little bit of 25 things and get nothing done. They are very popular because they always say yes. But they get nothing done."
"In our show, we try to think about consequences, not about tricking the audience or hiding things to fool the audience."
"I just try and do something good. But as a writer, you're slightly out of control."
"Hollywood is a cottage industry involving a very small number of people, and around the edges are enormous numbers of people trying to get into it and work."
"I have to experiment with methods and I'm trying to find an authentic way of making an equivalent of the living, breathing person within the limits of a single picture."
"At a certain stage of misery, you'll try anything to explain what's going on with you, even if you know it doesn't explain a thing and it's one failed explanation after another."
"I don’t ask writers about their work habits. I really don’t care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each other what time they start working and when they finish and how much time they take for lunch, they’re actually trying to find out, "Is he as crazy as I am?" I don’t need that question answered."
"Unless you are willing to try, fail miserable, and try again, success won't happen."
"Human beings have Love for one another inborn in them - Love, reassembler of our ancient nature, who tries to make one out of two and to heal human nature."
"I was trying to find a reason for having had to escape from the place that was my home. To convince myself of my choices, I had to make it a place that everyone should want to escape from."
"I'm confident being at Universal, which is a great home for me, 'cause they understand what I'm trying to do."
"In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously."
