Done Trying To Make It Work Quotes

#1. Their relationship isn't perfect in a lot of ways, bit it's something real. And real should probably be the goal, not perfection. Every relationship is flawed; you just have to figure out how to make it work. Keep trying.

Lindsey Leavitt

#2. He reached up and traced her cheek with the outside of his fingers. "Guys like me look for reasons. We look for explanations. I've been trying for hours to make sense out of this, and I only know two things. When it comes to you and Santa Claus, 'sense' doesn't work. And I love you.

Sierra Donovan

#3. There's no shame in trying to make stuff work, is how I see it. It's better than just accepting the broken.

Sarah Dessen

#4. I'd say most of my work is just trying to make sense of the disorienting and overloaded world that we inhabit. We're bombarded with sound at every level.

DJ Spooky

#5. Be personal, and original. Try to work clean. Stay away from topical material, as it does not allow you to craft it to make it better for later. And always remember that it is the fans who will make you or break you.

Gabriel Iglesias

#6. In recording, you're trying to make something work sonically - getting the right inflection on the right guitar sound - and maybe a part that would be musically great doesn't sound as cool.

Beck

#7. I'm lucky that I get to jump around, do a big-budget comedy and then a smaller film. I don't even make a big distinction between them. No one believes this, but it's the same. I'm the same person, trying to make it work. I just love being on a movie set. I like making movies.

Richard Linklater

#8. Before, I was always trying to make my relationships work by means of willpower and forced affability. This time I didn't have to strive for anything. A quality of ease spread over us.

Charles Baxter

#9. Writers have the purity of their art and what they want to achieve with that, and that this purity is bound up with the messy material conditions of trying to make a living while doing that work.

Chad Harbach

#10. If you haven't made any mistakes lately, then obviously you haven't been trying too hard.

Mark W. Boyer

#11. When real actors are approaching their work, we could be on a little stage somewhere, doing community theater. It's all the same. They're just trying to make the scene work. They're just trying to do the best they can and figure it out.

Kurt Fuller

#12. All I want to do with my life is try and make music that I really love, and so every day I try and work on music.

Moby

#13. There is another movie I love that always sticks with me and influenced me called "Frankie" starring Diane Kruger as a model past her prime trying to make it work and going crazy from how she is treated.

Zoe Cassavetes

#14. I've always seen my work as trying to make the connection with men who no one really spends time with.

Laurel Nakadate

#15. The problem with trying to make a film good and have it work for an audience is the problem of trying to tell a story well. The shape or the color of it doesn't matter.

James Frain

#16. I write every day for most of the work day, and I try to write 2,500 words per day ... If I don't make it a routine and treat it like a job, I'd never get anything done.

David B. Coe

#17. I tried documentaries.It wasn't the time for me. I was going to try to do the same thing, I did make a valiant attempt but it did not work - to do the same thing with documentaries that we had done with the book club [in 2011]. The zeitgeist wasn't ready. It just wasn't ready.

Oprah Winfrey

#18. We have 25 or so years invested in the work. Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try to find something wrong with it ...

Phil Jones

#19. Our biggest single theme is trying to make the NIH work better with the same amount of money.

Harold E. Varmus

#20. He had a simple maxim for all competitive or adversarial situations: work out what the other party least wants you to do, and then do it. Relieving your feelings was fun, but the best course of action was to make things as difficult as possible for the person trying to make things difficult for you.

John Lanchester

#21. This is about the daily ins and outs of a marriage. I don't want to give away the ending, but they are trying either to make the marriage work or make the separation work. Our job is to make that interesting.

Rob Reiner

#22. So I watched the Pink Panther last night, and so I'm trying desperately to be funny, and then it's just not working out so good ... I wonder if maybe I could've been a comedian or something like that, or maybe I could've been a doctor, then I wouldn't have to make anyone laugh.

Dave Matthews

#23. What we're all sort of trying to do in our lives is to make the simplest things work out the best.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#24. The word feminism has negative connotations for men. Rather, we are wanting to celebrate females and their confidence. There is no political agenda behind my work. I'm just trying to make music that makes me feel good and confident. We've got a cool message.

Nicole Scherzinger

#25. If you look at how I've tried to and how I'll continue to try to govern, I'm not driven by some ideological agenda. I'm a pretty practical guy and I just want to make sure that things work.

Barack Obama

#26. When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical out of the documentary material about the General Strike, which was the next big historical event in England, after the First World War.

Trevor Nunn

#27. If you are going to try to go to war, or to prepare for war, in a capitalist country, you have got to let business make money out of the process or business won't work.

Henry L. Stimson

#28. All films are learning processes. I am still trying to work out how you make a movie. I didn't study at film school or any of those things. I didn't bother with film theory.

Terry Gilliam

#29. I learned the importance of being nonjudgmental, taking what happens and trying to make it work.That's something you should apply to life.

Herbie Hancock

#30. Trying to make the presidency work these days is like trying to sew buttons on a custard pie.

James David Barber

#31. There are people who are out to take advantage of others and some who are merely putting in their time. But most of the people I encounter in the work place are desperately trying to make a difference and what to be effective at their jobs.

David Livermore

#32. The 1970s seemed particularly playful. People were trying to make work that couldn't be sold.

Rachel Kushner

#33. Be yourself. If you try to be someone else, it won't work. Whatever you do, you are not going to make everyone happy.

Kimi Raikkonen

#34. You have to work to carve out your own little corner, and I'm certainly smacking my head against the wall trying to make a dent. I just hope I don't get brain-damaged before I get there

Rose McGowan