Quotes on Trying

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.

Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

I don't try to be a threat to MicroSoft, mainly because I don't really see MS as competition. Especially not Windows-the goals of Linux and Windows are simply so different.

I try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up without having pre-conceptions of how I should deal with it. My only long-range plan has been and still is just the very general plan of making Linux better.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

Being a good teammate is when you try to sprint down a ball that everyone thinks is going out of bounds. But you go after it anyways and you get it.

I just try to touch people's hearts in a way through skating, so they're not just witnessing a performance, they're feeling a performance and they're a part of it.

To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.

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.

It doesn't bother me when people try to deconstruct my songs - because at least they're looking at the lyrics, and paying attention to the way the story is told.

I try to prepare for everything beyond the extent of preparation.

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it.

Talk about a dream, try to make it real.

I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.

There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action - to try to balance out those effects.

My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the Grapes of Wrath, his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day.