#tryin

So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old. ↗

— Robert Morris

#composers #contemporary #create #daunting #encouraging

What we should be trying to do is to encourage people to establish private retirement accounts and help them take pressure off the Social Security system. ↗

— Dennis Moore

#encourage #establish #help #off #people

I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence. ↗

— Garry Trudeau

#develop #i #lifestyle #presence #require

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#trial-and-error #trying #perseverance

Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong. ↗

— Robert. L. Ehrlich

#accept #around #convince #din #doing

When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their idea very well. It's a muddled expression. ↗

— Casey Affleck

#actor #because #express #expression #idea

Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying. ↗

— Harry Anderson

#fool #keep #knows #stars #touch

My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that, every car company is doing that. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#ask #big #car #come #company

At the end of the day, we're just trying to prevent each other from going mad. ↗

— Will Champion

#each #end #end of the day #going #just

As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of their suffering, we feel deeply and profoundly that we should be there, in Haiti, with them, trying our best to prevent death. ↗

— Jean-Bertrand Aristide

#buried #death #debris #deeply #feel