I try to go through my reads and then, if I have the option to run, I do run.
I try not to make conscious decisions about what I am looking for. I don't make elaborate preparations before I go to a location. Essentially I walk, explore, discover and photograph.
There's nothing that compares to being in a band with your best friends. We're so comfortable together, we understand each other. It feels, like, normal. Whereas solo period felt like I was trying to be something, and play a role, and pretend.
I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song.
It is only in the case of the Priestly Code that opinions differ widely; for it tries hard to imitate the costume of the Mosaic period, and, with whatever success, to disguise its own.
HOBBES: All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once.
What I'm trying to do right now is truly answer my most deepest most unarticulated questions for myself through my writing in some form.
If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
I try to make my life about service, and hope that one day we can all 'see' a little better because God is with everyone and everywhere.
You don't get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.
There is no better rule to try a doctrine by than the question, Is it merciful, or is it unmerciful? If its character is that of mercy, it has the image of Jesus, who is the way, the truth, and the life.
I am trying to stay away from this position of me "returning to my roots. " As if my roots are that I'm only comfortable working on low-budget, small films. That's not the case at all.
I'm trying to write stories that are interesting and enjoyable.
I read papers, try to watch news programs on television, but, as a rule, recorded. During the day I have no time for that, so I watch something taped. As for the newspapers, I try to get through them every day. Additionally, of course, I look through news bulletins.
It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants.
The American official was trying to talk about aid and development projects and finally a local tribal chief got up and said, "Even if you turn our country into heaven, we don't want it from you. Just leave us. "
Do not try to fix whatever comes in your life. Fix yourself in such a way that whatever comes, you will be fine.
Every effort needs to be made to try and offset the costs of Katrina and Rita by reductions in other government programs, especially those that are wasteful, duplicative and ineffective.
Like the Good Samaritan, may we not be ashamed of touching the wounds of those who suffer, but try to heal them with concrete acts of love.
By trying to make things easier for their children, parents can make things much harder for them.