Quotes About Trying

It might be scary because you're taking a risk, but at the end of the day you can say you tried.

In its own way, though, that nihilism itself can be comforting, and this is another place where I quibble. If it's all futile, we're excused from trying. And not trying is so much easier than trying-and-failing. It's soothing to have an excuse for hopelessness. And we do have a cultural bias toward believing that the most cynical response to any situation is the wisest and most knowledgable one.

I'm trying to open a Chopper shop this year.

People make a mistake saying I'm trying to break down barriers and change the game. I'm not trying to do any of that.

Feedback is an engineering principle, Adam's email to me ended. 'And all engineering is devoted to trying to keep the thing you are building stable.

Destroy the traces. I'd never tried to do that. Instead I'd lived in their midst for thirty years, oblivious, a blind man fancying himself invisible.

He wrote, I do not know how to live. I do not know either, but I am trying. I do not know how to try. There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him, so I buried them, and let them hurt me.

Being the firstborn gives you great patience. But you reach a point where after trying and trying you say, Patience be damned. Let them suffer their distorted worldview. Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It's a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you know you owe them nothing.

Think crucial hanging. Think crayon orange. There is one low, leaning heart-shaped globe left and dearest, can you tell, I am trying to love you less.

I'm not a human interest story, man. I'm just a musician trying to make some small records and be happy, be peaceful.

I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating. Most people attach failure to something not working out or how people perceive you. This way, it is about answering to yourself.

I had opportunities to stay on shows for long periods of time, and maybe financially that would have been good, but I feel good about trying to keep doing things that are a little bit different than what I've done.

I was a waitress for six years in New York. I actually got fascinated to see how fast and how good a waitress I could be. I was doing it, so I tried to do it as well as I could.

If I were trying to impress a girl, I wouldn't get all super dressed because I would look like I was trying too hard. Instead, I would probably wear what I normally would.

Csak úgy tanulhat az ember, ha próbálja.

An art college tip is probably the repository for some of the ugliest objects on earth because they aren't only ugly objects, they're ugly objects that are trying to be art.

There is no shame in failure. For a warrior the only shame is in not trying.)

Every novel is an attempt to capture time, to weave something solid out of air. The author knows it is an impossible task - that is why he keeps on trying.

Well, my pet," says Jurgen, "the Jews got into Jericho by trying.

He forced himself forward trying to seem innocent without acting like someone who was guilty who was trying to act innocent.

Next time I'll listen to my heart, Next time I'll be smart. Next time, I'll listen to my heart, Next time, well I'll be smart. That girl could still be mine, But I'm tired of the hurt, I'm tired of trying, I'm tired of the pain, I'm tired of trying, I'm tired of crying. Next time I'll listen to my heart, Next time I'll be smart. Next time, I'll listen to my heart, Next time, well I'll be smart.

I think people who go out and tell you how much they're gonna change things are the people who end up being just another whatever. I'm never trying to change anything. That's not for me.

Well, of course it was a very trying time for me, and fortunately I had a lot of people who were supportive. A lot of people who were writing and calling and saying they were praying for me. Some people sent me Scripture, and that helped.

It's always a long process of trying to suppress the self-doubt on set when you're acting.