Quotes About Why Even Try

#1. There's a common criticism of evolutionary psychology that it's fatalistic and it dooms us to eternal strife, 'Why even try to work toward peace if we're just bloody killer apes and violence is in our genes?'

Steven Pinker

#2. The load of tomorrow, added to that of yesterday, carried today, makes the strongest falter. ... Why even try it?

Dale Carnegie

#3. If I told people that I knew what I was doing, nobody would believe me, so why even try and fake it?

Andrew Mason

#4. I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're doing what they're doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them.

A.S. Byatt

#5. Why did you even try? Do you think you actually mean something to it?"
"I don't know," Alan snapped. "How could I know? That's not the point. He means something to me.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#6. Why should we believe people who constantly try to push these trade agreements and won't even admit when one has gone wrong? It makes working people feel like the process is rigged. The reason is, it is rigged.

Russ Feingold

#7. I don't understand why some people would even try to categorize you. After watching "Duck Dynasty", who would have thunk?

Shannon L. Alder

#8. I just want to do musicals. it's hard enough just to do musicals. No matter how hard I try, I think it's only getting harder. Even If I try harder, there are problems that I just can't deal with. I don't know why it's become like this.

Cheon Eunbi

#9. You have to write. You have to sit down and do it every day. Find your method, your motivation, your tenacity to keep doing it even when you can no longer explain why you would even try.

Catherine Cruzan

#10. What is the character trying to say? Why? Be as specific as you can, using sense images that evoke something about the character. Try using the character's senses, even if the character is you.

Pat Pattison

#11. I opened my mouth to reply, but then closed it again. Talking to Mom was a bit like trying to fold a fitted sheet: no matter how hard you try, it always ends up a lumpy, crooked mess. So why even bother? (Page 120)

Marci Lyn Curtis

#12. You don't have to either choose to save the world or become a sellout. I say to people, "Listen dude, how can you save the world if you can't even save yourself? Why don't you try to affect one person's life who's in your life, and that would be historic."

Immortal Technique

#13. The reason most people don't arrive at a destination is they never embark. They think of all the reasons why they can't do it, so they don't even try." "I

Jeff Wheeler

#14. believe that hard work pays off, then you work hard; if you think it's hard to get ahead even when you try, then why try at all? Similarly,

J.D. Vance

#15. In modern novels I try to not let myself get away and to be here, and that's why I write about my life and myself. But even when I do that there's an element of disappearing to a place that's not me. It's "the selflessness of writing". It seldom happens, but when it does it's worth quite a lot.

Karl Ove Knausgard

#16. As a physician, I try to heal the mind before healing the body. That's why most of my patients get better even before they start any medication.

Debasish Mridha

#17. There is no reason why a serious film, one about life, can't be enjoyable, maybe even fun. Emotions can be very entertaining, you know. I try to use them generously in my films.

John Cassavetes

#18. Cynicism is the largest obstacle to social change. Cynicism is dangerous because people throw up their hands and say, "Well it's not possible. Why should I even try?"

Robert Reich

#19. I really struggle with that feeling of helplessness. That's why I really try to get my blogs, and even myself, to point to the positive and look at all the inspiring things that are happening.

Daryl Hannah

#20. This is why magic is worse even than quantum physics. Because, while both spit in the eye of common sense, I've never yet had a Higgs bosun turn up and try to have a conversation with me.

Ben Aaronovitch

#21. Why don't you try wandering with me to the Palace of Not-Even-Anything

Zhuangzi

#22. Why do people wage war? Why do hundreds of thousands, even millions of people group together and try to annihilate each other? Do people start wars out of anger? Or fear? Or are anger and fear just two aspects of the same spirit?

Haruki Murakami

#23. Dimitri: "Were you really going to attack all of us? Doing that ... protecting her like that - it was very brave. Stupid, but still brave. Why did you even try it?"
Rose: "Because I'm her guardian.

Richelle Mead

#24. I have no idea what he wants. Maybe he needs to remind you to pack your skimpiest swimsuit." He paused. "Oh, wait, no. That's me." He grinned as I rolled my eyes.
"Why do I even try to have normal conversations with you?" I asked him. "Because you like talking to me.

Ada Adams

#25. And that, Claire thought, was why Morley had been right about this, even if he was a complete vampire about
it.
You had to save what you could.
Amelie had understood that all along, Claire realized. That was why Morganville existed. Because you had to
try.

Rachel Caine

#26. I like you for the way you are now. I like you who try your best to save people no matter how timid you are. I don't want to see "you" who kill people while smiling, even that "you" saved me, and even how strong "you" are. That's why... this is, goodbye.

Tooru Hayama

#27. people wage war? Why do hundreds of thousands, even millions of people group together and try to annihilate each other? Do people start wars out of anger? Or fear? Or are anger and fear just two aspects of the same spirit? I

Haruki Murakami

#28. Doing that ... pertecting her like that-it was very brave." He paused. "Stupid, but still brave. Why did you even try it?

Richelle Mead

#29. Most of promoting seems unnatural to me, and I wish I didn't have to do it. I'm not especially good at tooting my own horn. However, I do love to connect with readers. That's why I try to keep up with my social media even when I don't have a new book coming out.

Linda Conrad

#30. Why did I even try then? Of course, in asking the question, I'd already known the answer; faith. I hoped; I couldn't help it.

J.M. Northup