Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scarlett Johansson

I try to stay fit and eat healthily, but I am not anxious to starve myself and become unnaturally thin. I don't find that look attractive on women and I don't want to become part of that trend. It's unhealthy and it puts too much pressure on women in general who are being fed this image of the ideal, which it is not.

Scarlett Johansson

I never struggled with trying to figure out what it was I wanted to do or what made the sparks go for me.

Shunryu Suzuki

We try, and we try, and we fail; and then we go deeper.

Shunryu Suzuki

If you try to observe the precepts, that is not true observation of precepts. When you observe the precepts without trying to observe the precepts, that is true observation of the precepts.

Shunryu Suzuki

When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything.

Shelby Lynne

I feel like records are moments in time, a modern moment that feels right then and it found its way to us then, that minute. We can all try and repeat records we have made that had success, but it's not possible.

Shari Arison

The Ahmadinejads of the world, the bin Ladens of the world, will not change their ways, regardless of how hard we try to explain to them that peace begins with them.

Seth

What could you measure? What would that cost? How fast could you get the results? If you can afford it, try it. If you measure it, it will improve.

Seth

Don’t try to make a product for everybody, because that is a product for nobody.

Sean O'Casey

When one has reached 81... one likes to sit back and let the world turn by itself, without trying to push it.

Sean Patrick Flanery

The best films in the world, you've got to beg and plead and try your best to get.

Lewis Thomas

It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be enchanted by the act of learning all the way.

Len Wein

I try not to violate what came before me and to leave lots of wiggle room for those who will follow.

Lee Konitz

You just keep playing. If someone special comes along and organizes it in a new way, then you'll have another approach and everybody will jump on it to try to learn.

Laura San Giacomo

I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.

Laura Ramsey

I try to just take in every moment of being alive.

Laura Prepon

The worst diets are ones that restrict your calories too much and try to trick your body. You have no energy, and it's ridiculous.

Larry Ellison

All you can do is every day, try to solve a problem and make your company better

Larry David

I'm trying to elevate small-talk to medium talk.

Marco Arment

I started out from a pretty modest background, so I always had a pretty good sense of money. I always had to work for my money, save my own money, I always bought my own stuff with my money... trying not to waste money unnecessarily.

Marc Cherry

Yes, we're trying some new stuff. Some of it might work. Some of it might not. This, of course, is the nature of episodic television. They can't all be gems.

Marc Forster

I always try to stay objective, and to remove myself from the process and look at the film again.

Sandra Cisneros

One of the things Thich Nhat Hanh taught me: he says, "When you're in a hurry, go slower." That works every time, unless you're trying to catch a plane.

Sandra Cisneros

You don't have to be the specialist on everything. You can try to inform yourself.

Sam Tsui

At some point I will try balut. I will make sure that I will film it

Sam Walton

Do it. Try it. Fix it.

Sam Altman

Stay focused and don't try to do too many things at once. Care about execution quality.

Sam Altman

What you want to do is innovate on your product and your business model, management structure is not where I would try and innovate.

Sam Altman

Developing a personal connection with anyone you're trying to do a big deal with is really important.

Sam Altman

One of the great and terrible things about starting a start up is that you get no credit for trying.

Ryan Guzman

While everybody is trying to be different, everybody becomes, obviously, the same, so it's finding what makes you special and then kind of sharing it with the world; it's what makes you a superstar.

Ryan Gosling

I try not to discriminate against genres.

Ryan Adams

I always have to remember that I am the narrator, but it doesn't have to be about me. A lot of songwriting is about trying to use what part of me is valid in telling the story. I don't want to overcook it, you know? Sometimes it seems that's really where the work is.