Quotes on Trying

I never try to predict the market.

The happiest people I know are not those who are the most beautiful, rich or famous. The happiest people I see are simply those who stay cheerful and try to cheer up others while getting through their own bad stuff

It's in the nature of stock markets to go way down from time to time. There's no system to avoid bad markets. You can't do it unless you try to time the market, which is a seriously dumb thing to do. Conservative investing with steady savings without expecting miracles is the way to go.

Stock _x000D_ speculation is largely a matter of A trying to decide what B, C and D _x000D_ are likely to think-with B, C and D trying to do the same.

The word "photography" can be interpreted as "writing with light" or "drawing with light." Some photographers are producing beautiful photographs by drawing with light.. Some other photographers are trying to tell something with their photographs. They are writing with light.

You'll find success in life when you stop trying to include God in your plans and Instead ask God to include you in His.

Be crumbled. _x000D_ So wild flowers will come up where you are. _x000D_ You have been stony for too many years. _x000D_ Try something different. _x000D_ Surrender.

The day shall not be up so soon as I, _x000D_ To try the fair adventure of tomorrow.

The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.

There are chemists who spend their whole lives trying to find out what's in a lump of sugar. I want to know one thing. What is color?

Once you define exactly what your purpose is you won’t even have to try to figure out how to make money. The ideas will flow freely as if someone was whispering in your ear. Everything will come together beautifully.

That's the clarinet I used to use... but it's just a piece of wood, you know, with holes in it and they put these clumsy keys on it and you're supposed to try to take that and manipulate it with throat muscles and chops... and try to make something happen that never happened before. And when you do, you never forget it. It beats sex, it beats anything.

If you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else.

At this moment, life is trying to love you and give to you in a million wonderful ways. When you say Yes, you allow love to flow, which is the greatest gift you can give yourself and the universe . . . What do you want that you could be more open to receiving?

When the record book on you is finished, let it show your wins and losses. But don't let it show you didn't try.

The artist must try to raise the level of taste of the masses, not debase himself to the level of unformed and impoverished taste.

The harder we try to catch hold of the moment, to seize a pleasant sensation..., the more elusive it becomes... It is like trying to clutch water in one's hands - the harder one grips, the faster it slips through one's fingers.

The opportunity is in the problem. The moment I see a problem, I immediately begin to think about the opportunities that can be created by trying to solve it.

So many writers come to class with one question dominant in their mind, 'How do I make a living from this?' It's a fair enough question and one I always try to answer well- but it saddens me that it so often overshadows the more relevant questions of 'why am I writing' and 'what am I saying' and 'how do I keep it honest.

Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.

Knowing makes all the difference... It's the difference between just trying to keep alive, and having something to live for