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"You might be a legend one day if you just keep your head to the ground and never get overzealous and start thinking you've outdone yourself. That's the space I try to stay in."
"Going into Indianapolis, playing Indiana, I guess bring it on. It's what we've caught at the end of the year, and we've got to try to make the best of it."
"If the believers of the present-day religions would earnestly try to think and act in the spirit of the founders of these religions then no hostility on the basis of religion would exist among the followers of the different faiths. Even the conflicts and the realm of religion would be exposed as insignificant."
"The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with us in our daily conduct."
"I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don't try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint them ordinary-ordina ry."
"At times I can't help going for visual comfort. Sometimes a picture fills up your head, and you try to move the actors around to make that visual statement."
"My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone."
"Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived."
"It was not facing what life dealt that made you crazy, but rather trying to set life straight where it was unstraightenable."
"I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world."
"Try is a noisy way of doing nothing."
"Work as hard as you can, whatever you do, and try to spread generosity of spirit."
"My thoughts seem thick, ketchup stuck in a bottle. Like trying to feel someone's face while wearing goosedown mittens."
"And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world."
"What's risky is living your life and never trying for anything and never doing something brave and never getting yourself scared."
"You die - and this is why manmade religions don't work for so many of us. The notion that you're dead and that's the end, and they even try to contain you in coffins. They make them out of steel and stuff. But really, your journey - for all you know - is just beginning. For all I know, what you see now is just a tiny little seed. So, I may blossom into an entire - I don't know - something in the sky. Who knows where we're going?"
"For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium."
"I've spent a lot of time and money trying to keep my anger in control."
"The time to buy stocks is consistently over time. You should never buy your investments with the idea, 'I have to get a certain return.' You should look at the best return possible and learn to live with that. But you should not try to make your investments earn what you feel you need. It doesn't work that way. The stock doesn't know you own it."
"I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have a single person who is basically the key person in that area."
