Sayings About Trying Something New

#1. My favorite job is the next one. It's such a gratifying experience getting to creatively keep trying something new and push things in a different direction.

Roger Craig Smith

#2. You never know with these things when you're trying something new what can happen. This is all experimental.

Richard Branson

#3. Unremarkable lives are marked by the fear of not looking capable when trying something new.

Epictetus

#4. Never be afraid of trying something new, Hassan. Very important. It is the spice of life.

Richard C. Morais

#5. You just have to keep moving forward. You just have to keep doing something, seizing the next opportunity, staying open to trying something new. It doesn't have to fit your vision of the perfect job or the perfect life. Perfect is boring, and dreams are not real. Just . . . DO.

Shonda Rhimes

#6. WHEN YOU'RE TRYING SOMETHING NEW,
YOU'RE TORN BETWEEN
ANTICIPATING A DELIGHTFUL SURPRISE
AND THINKING YOU'RE A FOOL TO
IGNORE WHAT YOU KNOW YOU LIKE.

Jenny Holzer

#7. If you change the way you crunch into something, it is like trying something new.

Muriel Barbery

#8. The best thing that I got was rehearsing with my father. It was always about the process of figuring things out, and trying something new, and having another take on something and keeping it alive.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#9. People may think I'm trying something new by telling stories, but they're just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That's what I do.

Steven Wright

#10. Don't be afraid to take risks, for you take them every day without realizing it. I'd rather fail at trying something new or different than to lose just for not trying at all.

Bianca McCormick-Johnson

#11. I don't want to get pigeon-holed into a certain kind of character. I love action roles and the hero, but I want to keep trying something new.

Michael Trucco

#12. If you see me playing a $1/$2 no-limit on PokerStars, I'm probably experimenting with something, trying something new seeing how it works.

Chris Moneymaker

#13. I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

Brian Eno

#14. When the good student chooses the honest path, free of perfectionism and faking, music study becomes something refreshingly new: a calm oasis of self-acceptance for those who are so used to driving themselves and trying to please others.

William Westney

#15. What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I'm not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.

Barbara Kingsolver

#16. If you were the government you would get the people being angry and trying to find hope to believe something new again. So we didn't have time to do that. It was just two years, the most difficult situation in Greece.

Eva Kaili

#17. Hetero - normative behavior and herd mentality is dangerous. It's okay to be different. It's okay to stand out for whatever reason. Some people are just born that way and instead of trying to tear them down, learn something new. Be curious and open because maybe that's a pathway out for you, too.

Rose McGowan

#18. Do not be afraid to try something new. The cost of playing it safe all the time could far exceed the cost of daring to change.

Linda El Awar

#19. At Tencent, we may be businessmen, but we are still chasing our IT, our science. We are still striving to create something really cool, trying to create things we couldn't even imagine without our new technologies. I am still clinging to this enthusiasm.

Ma Huateng

#20. The morning sun in New Orleans felt like it was trying to make a point, convincing the old world to believe something new.

Hunter Murphy

#21. I think that if you're a thinking person you should always be trying to learn something new.

Matt Taibbi

#22. I want to keep improving, continue to help my teammates improve, make my teammates look good. Continue bringing something new to the game, never getting completely content and always trying to get better.

Alex Morgan

#23. Everyone too busy trying to survive to spend any time creating something new.

James S.A. Corey

#24. When my films don't work it's usually because I tried some very experimental idea. I tried new ideas and they just didn't work, as opposed to trying to do something conventional and having it be so conventional nobody wanted to see it.

George Lucas

#25. Every time you said it, you really said it. It wasn't like a sequel where Hollywood just lines up the same actors and hopes it works again. It was like a remake with a new director and crew trying something else and starting from scratch.

Daniel Handler

#26. When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.

G-Eazy

#27. When adults first become conscious of something new, they usually either attack or try to escape from it ... Attack includes such mild forms as ridicule, and escape includes merely putting out of mind.

William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

#28. Learn something new. Try something different. Convince yourself that you have no limits.

Brian Tracy

#29. When you make the decision to start something new, first figure out the jobs you want to do. Then position yourself to play where no one else is playing.

Whitney Johnson

#30. If you can do something with your eyes closed, it is time to try something new.

Kathie Lee Gifford

#31. Formula E is trying to do something totally different to F1. When the battery technology does improve, because of our championship, and it transcends into road cars, it will be cool to think that we have been at the very pinnacle of new technology and the future of the automotive industry.

Sam Bird

#32. As an audience member, those studio films are fun. I like an adventure tale, and I also like to go see something that has more of a social pulse. I like to keep learning and trying new things. And if the scripts are good, it doesn't really matter.

Michael Fassbender

#33. It all started off with stirring speeches, Greek columns, the thrill of something new. Now all that's left is a presidency adrift, surviving on slogans that already seem tired, grasping at a moment that has already passed, like a ship trying to sail on yesterday's wind.

Paul Ryan

#34. The bigger point here is that golf is a good metaphor for one's life. The challenge of golf for me is trying to learn new rules. It's something you always have to work at; you don't get perfect at golf. It's the never-ending quest for betterment.

Morgan Freeman

#35. I think it's important to have confidence, but then it's also important to try to try something new, to leave your comfort zone to try to grow. That's why I'm trying to grow as an artist and trying to figure out what kind of artist I want to be.

Kadir Nelson

#36. I have advice for new writers, first of all, at any time in the history of publishing in my experience, there will be endless number people telling you that you can't do what you are trying to do. You won't succeed, there's something else you should be doing.

Dean Koontz

#37. Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great. Competent design is not too much of a stretch. But if you are trying to do something new, you have challenges on so many axes.

Jonathan Ive

#38. You talk here about greatness. I just wanted to ask if you could understand what it was we were going for. That there is greatness in the attempt - something in the trying. That in trying, we set up a certain scaffolding that a new generation can use to climb to heights we only dreamed of.

Liza Palmer

#39. Words are changing. I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn't been born yet. It's difficult.

Agnes Denes

#40. As a poet or a novelist or a painter, you are pushing yourself all the time, always looking for a new way to approach something, challenging yourself and never, never trying to write the same book twice.

Paul Auster

#41. There's real peril in trying to repeat yourself, and apply rules that applied to something else to a new project.

Mitchell Hurwitz

#42. Entrepreneurs can't forecast accurately, because they are trying something fundamentally new. So they will often be laughably behind plan - and on the brink of success.

Eric Ries

#43. I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being a bit like something that was a success on a previous record, they're inclined to encourage that.

Brian Eno

#44. One key to learning and success is the willingness to try something new, and feel momentarily incompetent.

Seth Godin

#45. When you set out to create a new product, you usually do not start by trying to think of something completely new. You think of a product or concept that is already 'normal' to the world and then try to make it better. You make it Super Normal.

Dave Morin

#46. There's a thing you confront when you're going into something new and you come to this sort of abyss, and then you push yourself. It makes you try different things.

Forest Whitaker

#47. You're always trying to find new stuff and new inspiration. If you don't really push and you don't try something that feels exciting, then it's not worth doing.

Hamilton Leithauser

#48. I want to see something that I've never seen before, so how can I tell that actor what that is? I'm not trying to construct a document or situation that is what I want, because what I want is something new to me.

Robert Altman

#49. I'm open to trying new things. That's why I think Birchbox is so awesome! It's something to look forward to and introduces me to something maybe I wouldn't have picked out, but fall in love with.

Christina Hendricks

#50. If I begin writing a poem that means I'm intrigued in some way by whatever it's about and that if I'm not trying to find something new and pushing the envelope in the poem I can't expect my reader to be particularly excited about it either.

Rita Dove

#51. Each mistake teaches you something new about yourself. There is no failure, remember, except in no longer trying. It is the courage to continue that counts.

Chris Bradford

#52. In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable.

Helen Gahagan

#53. With every year, I always try and learn something new and grow gracefully, and that's just kind of my rule for every year.

Nicole Richie

#54. I'm kind of conservative. I like to build on what I've done in the past and try something new.

Cliff Martinez

#55. I'm new to the Twitterverse and so I'm attempting to build my followers. I'm trying to be a better tweeter. I try not to tweet too much, just when I've got something worthwhile to say.

Eric Ladin

#56. Sometimes you've got to draw a line between having all the options and being a slave to the things, using them every time you play the guitar. I'm trying to keep a real inconsistency to the pedals so that it is something new every time.

Joshua Homme

#57. If the results don't scream: "Do this again!" Try something new.

Tony Robbins

#58. It's very easy to make something that is new. So we are trying to make things that are better.

Jonathan Ive

#59. Failure isn't something to be embarassed about; it's just proof that you're pushing your limits, trying new things, daring to innovate.

Gavin Newsom

#60. You're always trying to do something that, on one hand, honors all those stories, that is still in some way the same character that Stan Lee and Jack Kirby were doing back in the sixties. But, at the same time, you want to be able to tell new stories and not just rehash what's come before.

Jason Aaron

#61. Sincerity is the key which will open the door through which you will see your separate parts, and you will see something quite new. You must go on trying to be sincere. Each day you put on a mask, and you must take it off little by little.

G.I. Gurdjieff

#62. Founders: there is no shame in failing, take pride in that you have the guts to try something new.

Kevin Rose

#63. Try something new each day. After all, we're given life to find it out. It doesn't last forever.

Ruth Gordon

#64. Too much of my life feels like this already- trying to recycle something old into something new and better, disguising someone else's trash as some fresh, shiny thing.

Jennifer Niven

#65. Talk to me. Say something, anything," he pleaded quietly as if he was trying to tame a wild animal.
"There's nothing to say."
He looked up and lowered his eyebrows on his eyes. "Why did you kiss me?

Stephanie Witter

#66. There's something really magical about trying to see things in new ways that go beyond, in some sense, the biological human experience. Light-field photography, too, goes beyond the human experience because our eyes work like conventional cameras.

Ren Ng

#67. Live your life like the novels that you love to read. Only do the things that when you look back, you are proud of what you accomplished, feel good about how you treated others and didn't regret not doing to trying something. Every day is a new chapter, write something.

Taylor Berke

#68. For me, self-gratification eventually took a backseat to trying to do something collaborative with other people, to trying to make something new.

Ariel Pink

#69. If you are ambitious, you are running in a tunnel that never ends. You will always find something new to go after. [ ... ] I got high for the first time with Get Rich or Die Tryin' and I have been trying to achieve that feeling again since then, all the time.

Curtis Jackson

#70. I'm constantly striving to break through to something new. You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.

Al Pacino

#71. The New Year is not something before us, it is something hidden within us trying to find the light. Don't wait for the right gift to be given to you. Look inside instead and find the Holy message
trying to be opened.

Michael Meade

#72. I am a competitive person with myself. I always find new goals to achieve, new challenges to breakthrough, and I try and do something new every day. And I'm highly competitive with myself.

Hilary Swank

#73. You're just always looking for something new. That's why a lot of people bounce between TV and movies. You have the ability to try something else.

Jon Turteltaub

#74. Every day is an opportunity to learn something or discover something or someplace. Be curious, play, go out on a limb, walk a different way to work, try a new food at dinner and keep learning and growing.

Sandra Magsamen

#75. Trying something different won't ensure that you would be liked by everyone. Still.. Go on..

Vikrmn

#76. I'm actually not a very good driver, to be honest with you. I'm a scatterbrain driver. I'm not very focused. I'm always trying to find the right music station or put on a new CD or trying to eat something.

Lauren Lee Smith

#77. 'Bloodshot,' for me, was unlike anything I'd ever done before, which was really the draw of it. In addition to trying to reconnect with my earlier work, I also wanted to try to do something that was completely new and different.

Jeff Lemire

#78. We all have to open our minds, stretch forth, take chances and venture out musically to try and arrive at something new and different.

Horace Silver

#79. It's always about trying to do something that's different and not repeating yourself because then you lose your creative stamina. You need to have new challenges.

Alexandre Aja

#80. The extreme weakness of quantum gravitational effects now poses some philosophical problems; maybe nature is trying to tell us something new here: maybe we should not try to quantize gravity.

Richard P. Feynman

#81. For a lot of people, when something happens that gives them 15 minutes of fame, they try to create something new out of that. I was really fortunate. For a professional speaker, it is all about press, publicity and PR, so to get that much free publicity ... it made life a lot easier.

Judson Laipply

#82. I'm not really entertained anymore, everything sounds the same. We have a crisis right now of innovative music. I'm probably the only person left trying to do something different and brand new.

Kool Keith

#83. I think we dip in and out of it. Every new show is trying to find their feet before they can say what they are. That's certainly something that I like about the role - going in and out of the personal life. There are some episodes where we go into it a little more, and some where we don't at all

Kristin Lehman

#84. No matter what you do, if you're trying to create something new, your environment has a massive impact on you.

Alex Kapranos

#85. When what you're doing doesn't work for 50 years, it's time to try something new.

Barack Obama

#86. I'm very conscious of the idea of trying to each time present something that I haven't presented before. It's a challenge to me to find something new, to find something innovative, but it's also very exciting.

Herbie Hancock

#87. Each season I try to incorporate something new that corresponds to the timing and the trends in everyday fashion.

Austin Scarlett

#88. It is not possible to be original by trying to be original - those who attempt this in the arts will be merely avant-garde. Originality is the product of an impulse to intense and overwhelming that it bursts the conventions and produces something new - again more by accident than design.

Michael Foley

#89. When faced by any loss, there's no point in trying to recover what has been, it's best to take advantage of the large space that opens up before us and fill it with something new.

Paulo Coelho

#90. You see, pops, that's the kind of talk that's ruining the music. Everyone's trying to do something new, no one trying to learn the fundamentals first. All them young cats playing their wierd chords. And what happens? No one's working.

Louis Armstrong

#91. The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words - that's magical. That's what I've been trying to strive for - to draw a clear picture, to open up a new dimension.

Mos Def

#92. I am always trying to do something new and different. The first step is curiosity, questions. You pay attention to what fascinates you. If you can't shake it, there is something there.

Dana Spiotta

#93. The courage to try something new makes me proud.

Jane Pauley

#94. The word try, means nothing. There's no such thing as trying to do something. The moment you begin a task, you're doing it. So just finish what you're doing.

La Tisha Honor

#95. If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up.

Steve Lacy

#96. As an artist, you're always trying to reach a new height, do something new, try something you haven't done before, and push your boundaries.

Eric Balfour

#97. I just love that part of comedy, where you see somebody's jokes develop. They try something new to see what works, and I just love that part.

Maria Bamford

#98. You learn something new from every player. No player is the same, so I'm definitely trying to pick up as much as I can from the guys ahead of me and from the guys who have been in the league for a long time.

Justin Cole

#99. I frequently look back at my life, searching for that fork in the road, trying to figure out where, exactly, I went bad and became a thrill-seeking, pleasure-hungry sensualist, always looking to shock, amuse, terrify and manipulate, seeking to fill that empty spot in my soul with something new.

Anthony Bourdain

#100. I think it's the next thing, getting out of the comfort-zone readership, that at some point you have to try and break out of that and see if you can go in new directions. I wanted to do something that felt a lot bigger than a book that's going to sit on a toilet.

Drew Magary