I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and…

It's interesting when you get those roles, which seem like nothing on the page, and you kind of subvert them. It's hard to say…

— Cate Blanchett

To subvert is not the aim of literature, its value lies in discovering and revealing what is rarely known, little known, thought to be…

— Gao Xingjian

I've never wanted to be part of an inner circle of any scene. I've always been an outsider looking to question and subvert.

— David LaChapelle

I'm always trying to, using literature, subvert people's responses.

— Luis Alberto Urrea

I know that my tendency is to be linear, and I'm trying to find ways to subvert that. And so in 'Bellocq's Ophelia' my…

— Natasha Trethewey

I think when you're trying to improve, the most important thing is to always have a plan.

— Hank Haney

“As long as one is in pursuit of something or the other, it is an endless process. As long as we are getting identified…

— Sadhguru

People think that I'm trying to go up there and just hit homers. That's not the case. That's the last thing I'm doing.

— Kyle Schwarber

I think that's something that I'm trying to push towards for everybody else: 'Be you.'

— Jordan Poole

Think through whom you are trying to reach. Tailor what you do and how you do it to appeal to those communities.

— Martin Sorrell

You cannot win all the time and, often, we don't win that much. You have to have something and I think if we can…

— Graham Potter

I don't think I was ever...trying to kill myself but I knew that if I'd ever gone too far...I wouldn't care.

— Demi Lovato

“To try to pray is to pray. You can't fail at it. It's the only human endeavor I can think of where trying is…

— Rick Hamlin

Some goals you just never really think about trying to achieve because they just seem so out of reach.

— Chris Daughtry

I think we're always trying to push ourselves to do new things.

— Jaime Preciado