#tryin

Or if I have my head in the results, I can't work with what I have, because I'm trying to force something to happen. And with singing, any time you force it, you tighten up. If you tighten up, you're screwed, nothing will work. ↗

— Kathy Mattea

#because #force #happen #head #i

I tell my staff, we're riding a tour bus around, and we're going to stop and look at some weird stuff - but we're taking our viewers around safely. They're just looking out the window at it. I'm trying to create a sense of comfort for my center audience. ↗

— Chris Matthews

#audience #bus #center #comfort #create

It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#both sides #face #fact #friendships #good

The military is trying very hard right now to put a better face on Guantanamo, and I think they actually have tried to rid some of the extreme versions of abuse that we have read about. ↗

— Jane Mayer

#abuse #actually #better #extreme #face

Trying to impress my mother with words was one of my favourite pursuits. ↗

— John Mayer

#impress #mother #pursuits #trying #words

I'm trying everything I can not to be jaded 'cause I don't like jaded musicians. ↗

— John Mayer

#everything #i #i can #jaded #like

So what I do is supervise the boarding process trying to get the shows the way I'd like them to be. And in some cases I've completely redone a board myself even though I'm not credited for it. ↗

— Craig McCracken

#boarding #cases #completely #credited #even

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#anxiety #concepts #great #job #our

The shows are either 11 or 22 minutes and they move pretty quickly, and that's part of the charm of them - so it was just trying to keep that in mind and keep the energy of the story moving, even though we were dealing with a longer format. ↗

— Craig McCracken

#dealing #either #energy #even #format

That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit. ↗

— Willie Mays

#ball player #baseball #baseball player #became #before