#tryin

All I know is that I've made some big screw-ups, and I've done some things that have done all right. I just keep trying to learn from the mistakes I've made. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#done #i #just #keep #know

I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#imaginations #manipulative #people #spark #trying

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#complete #completely #design #foolproof #fools

I mean, that's kind of what this business is about in some ways. You're trying to make everybody like you. But you can't do that. You can't force everybody - anybody to like you if they're just not willing to do it. ↗

— Clay Aiken

#anybody #business #everybody #force #i

I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life. ↗

— Karen Allen

#born #doing #done #go #hard

I actually enjoyed the struggles that we had trying to shape 'Blood', to get the pacing right, the rhythm of it. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#blood #enjoyed #get #had #i

What five books would I like to be remembered for? Well... Tau Zero, I like that one especially. It was somewhat of a tour de force, and I think it got across what I was trying for. ↗

— Poul Anderson

#books #especially #five #force #got

Oh, who am I trying to kid? It's a madhouse. The minute those cameras go off, things just explode, everyone is just at each other in one way or another, in closets or cat fights here and there. It's nuts. You know, I can't be a part of it. ↗

— Richard Dean Anderson

#another #cameras #cat #closets #each

Man, I'm not trying to be important; I just go out and play. ↗

— Carmelo Anthony

#i #important #just #man #out

I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding. ↗

— David Antin

#everybody #everybody else #find #giving #giving up