Trying Quotes - Page 41

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.

I'm hard-nosed about luck...If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost always make your own fortune.

It's not easy to live every moment wholly aware of death. It's like trying to stare the sun in the face: you can stand only so much of it. Because we cannot live frozen in fear, we generate methods to soften death's terror. We project ourselves into the future through our children; we grow rich, famous, ever larger; we develop compulsive protective rituals; or we embrace an impregnable belief in an ultimate rescuer.

A photographer is an acrobat treading the high wire of chance, trying to capture shooting stars.

The truth of the matter is, we're not far away from where we should be. We can complain about the problem or we can go out and solve the problem. I choose to go out and try to solve the problem.

Three-fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering.

Do or do not. There is no try. Only do.

If you want to know everything about the market, go to the beach. Push and pull your hands with the waves. Some are bigger waves, some are smaller. But if you try to push the wave out when it's coming in, it'll never happen. The market is always right.

Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it.

Look for foods that create beauty from the inside out. Instead of coating yourself in chemical laden beauty products, why not try to get healthy skin from the foods you eat.

to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action to another, from one level of a text to another. The text unveils itself before us, but never allows itself to be possessed; and instead of trying to possess it we should take pleasure in its teasing

I went down like a drunken cowgirl trying to line dance to Metallica.

Public reformers had need first practice on their own hearts that which they purpose to try on others.

Life can only be understood backwards but you have to live it forward. You can only do that by stepping into uncertainty and by trying, within this uncertainty, to create your own islands of security....The new security will be a belief that ...if this doesn't work out you could do something else. You are your own security.

Success for me is not to have all the medals. Success for me is to always do your best and try to develop and get better at every event.

When I do short films, I try to do something completely out of my comfort zone, out of my element.

I don't know if I can live on my income or not - the government won't let me try it.

Reusing pieces of code is like picking off sentences from other people's stories and trying to make a magazine article.

I just love cars; Ive been like that since I was a kid. Its an infatuation because we grew up poor. Cars was something we were always trying to get.

You're at your most purest, most innocent, pure state when you're doing something you've never done before. You're scared a little, you're a little vulnerable, you're kind of trying, and then you're also better, because you're trying harder than you maybe would try.

When everyone zigs, zag. Life is all about trying to get somewhere first.

Keep trying until you have no more chances left.

When something you make doesn't work, it didn't work, not you. You, you work. You keep trying.

If you don’t try to stop whatever is going on in your mind, but merely observe it, eventually you’ll begin to feel a tremendous sense of relaxation, a vast sense of openness within your mind - which is in fact your natural mind, the naturally unperturbed background against which various thoughts come and go.

Everyone wants to play. They're just afraid of looking stupid. But you know what's stupid? Not trying. So just...try.