Trying Something Quotes

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

Vikrmn

#2. Sometimes if the people are up for trying something that I'm interested in, it can be a great experience.

Wes Anderson

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

Richard Branson

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. Move fast, take risks, it's okay to try big things you're better off trying something and having it not work and learning from that than having not done anything at all.

Mark Zuckerberg

#7. Don't judge your meditations. Don't rate them. The physical mind cannot tell how well you did. As long as you are sitting there trying, something will happen.

Frederick Lenz

#8. 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

#9. 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

#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. 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

#12. Most people think that faith means believing something; oftener it means trying something, giving it a chance to prove itself

Henry Ford

#13. Personal style is about taking a risk, trying something unexpected, and having fun with fashion, but always being true to yourself.

Ralph Lauren

#14. The vast majority of large scale change efforts fail. Which means that the probability that you have actually experienced a failure, and your people know that and are pessimistic, therefore, about trying something again, is very high.

John P. Kotter

#15. 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

#16. Most artists have experienced the creative block. We get stuck in our work. We beat our head against the wall: nothing. Sometimes, it is because we are trying something at the wrong time.

Lukas Foss

#17. 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

#18. Of course he wouldn't hesitate before trying something that had never been done before. He was Vlad Tepesh. How could he fail?

Jeaniene Frost

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

Muriel Barbery

#20. 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

#21. You don't get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.

Bill Parcells

#22. 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

#23. There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up.

Jay Samit

#24. 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

#25. Albeit, you are the only one to do the right thing, never feel alone. Always keep in mind that you're trying something people couldn't do ever before, you're having the whole world of righteousness in yourself.

M.H. Rakib

#26. Novel writing is mostly triage (this now, that later) and obstinacy. Trying something, and when that doesn't work, trying something else. Welcoming clutter Surrendering a good idea for a better one. Knowing you won't find the finish line for a year or two, or five ...

Richard Russo

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

Richard C. Morais

#28. I'm interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.

Agnes Varda

#29. The important thing to remember, if you are trying something that is an innovation, is not to think too much about it. Because if you take too long, by the time you get there, the world will have changed. You take a risk, and if it doesn't work, you make a change. We are not betting our lives on it.

Sandro Veronesi

#30. 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

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

Epictetus

#32. Better that you should take the chance of trying something that is close to your heart, you think is what you want to write, and if they do not publish it, put it in your drawer. But maybe another day will come and you will find a place to put that.

Gay Talese

#33. No matter how brilliant an actor is, there's always a point where they let you down, but that's all part of their journey. They might be trying something they need to explore.

Amanda Hale

#34. Most of the things I achieved in my life are through trying something which others and I thought won't be possible.

Nauman Khan

#35. There is price you pay when you want freedom of speech. You must be willing to accept the good the bad and the ugly when trying something out of the box.

Sunny Leone

#36. It's not about failure; it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal.

Carol Alt

#37. I always felt that if you're not trying something different each time out of the gate, you're being safe, and you don't ever want to find that place of safety. I like that, each time, before I even go in front of the cameras, the studio's reaction will be fear.

Johnny Depp

#38. I just like the idea of trying something that no one's ever tried before, and I really wanted to know if it was possible.

Taj Burrow

#39. There is a huge difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up. True success comes from failing repeatedly and as quickly as possible, before your cash or your willpower runs out.

Jay Samit

#40. Calculate what man knows and it cannot compare to what he doesn't know. Calculate the time he is alive and it cannot compare to the time before he was born. Yet man takes something so small and tries to exhaust the dimensions of something so large!

Zhuangzi

#41. Children listen, I'm trying to tell you something good, don't get caught up in the hood.

Dr. Dre

#42. The best thing to do is try and make sure you're getting something at your end. We had stretches where we didn't get that.

Bo Ryan

#43. If at first you don't succeed, sure, try again ... but if you keep not succeeding, you should probably concentrate on something (or someone) else worthwhile & quit wasting your time.

Ingrid Weir

#44. If you're filming a scene on horseback, if you're trying to control an animal that's much larger than you and trying to get it to do the exact same thing so you can match things up, that can get tricky, especially if the horse gets tired or angry or something.

Daniel Portman

#45. Writing a story I am just trying to find some little interesting thing to start out with: something small, even trivial. Preferably something that doesn't have a lot of thematic or political baggage - a little crumb that is interesting.

George Saunders

#46. Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.

Wislawa Szymborska

#47. Don't hyperventilate about something that happened at 9:00 in the morning when the grace of God is trying to reward you at 6:00 in the evening.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#48. Our home, our special country, is for all of us the place where we find liberation; a very difficult word ... that tries to describe something that can't be described but is the only thing worth having.

Elizabeth Goudge

#49. 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

#50. I assumed it was someone trying to sell me something. They're always calling to sell. Once they said if I sent in a check for $99 I'd be pre-approved for a credit card, and I said, Right, sure, and if I step under a pigeon I'm preapproved for a load of shit

Nicole Krauss

#51. Writers spend too much time among dead things. I thought that was profound and actually true, that you're trying to pump life into something that is inanimate. You see what a sort of audacious thing it is to move these sort of imaginary people around in a very stylized and patterned world.

Martin Amis

#52. It's not very smart to keep trying to do something you can't do and never will be able to do.

Steve Brown

#53. There wasn't use trying to talk with a girl just because of something she'd said to me in a dream

Ross Raisin

#54. And last, it may be worthwhile trying to hang something beyond the partial wall because some of the pictures do very well in a confined space.

Mark Rothko

#55. Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake, when something doesn't come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we're not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished.

Sharon Salzberg

#56. Or if I have my head in the results, I can't work with what I have, because I'm trying to force something to happen. And with singing, any time you force it, you tighten up. If you tighten up, you're screwed, nothing will work.

Kathy Mattea

#57. '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

#58. Have you ever thought, when something dreadful happens, 'a moment ago things were not like this; let it be then, not now, anything but now'? And you try and try to remake then, but you know you can't. So you try to hold the moment quite still and not let it move on and show itself.

Mary Stewart

#59. Some people are very dictatorial and it's not a good feeling, and it kind of inhibits you, because you feel like you have more to offer than what they're trying to squeeze you into, some kind of box or something like that.

Sasha Grey

#60. It is the normal state of the human heart to try to build its identity around something besides God.

Soren Kierkegaard

#61. We try to abolish intervals by our manic insistence on keeping busy, on doing something. And as a result, all we succeed in doing is destroying all hope of tranquility ... You have to learn to immerse yourself in the silences between.

Lyall Watson

#62. It's not a very sane thing to try to be great all the time. You want to make something magical; you want to make something wonderful; you want to give to everybody; you want to heal people; you want to still be inspired. That's not easy.

Lykke Li

#63. I wake up every day trying to give something back to you that you can rock to and be proud of.

Kanye West

#64. Civilization tries to persuade us we are going towards something, a distant goal. We have forgotten that our only goal is to live, to live each and every day, and that if we live each and every day, our true goal is achieved.

Jean Giono

#65. I'm kind of a quiet leader, and I just try to lead by example. But then sometimes you have to say something.

Chamique Holdsclaw

#66. And you shouldn't choose to care about someone. There shouldn't be a time and a place for it. Either you do or you don't. Don't try." He looks off. "There can be falseness in trying to do something that should come naturally to people.

Celia Mcmahon

#67. There's a big difference between trying to do something and actually doing it. We often say we're trying to do something-losing weight, getting more exercise, finding a job. But the truth is, we're either doing it or not doing it.

Tina Seelig

#68. When you are just you, without thinking or trying to say something special, just saying what is on your mind and how you feel, then there is naturally self-respect.

Shunryu Suzuki

#69. I had something I was trying to say and sometimes the message is an easy transmission and sometimes it's a difficult one but I love the power of saying it so I'm gonna do it whether it's hard or easy.

Faith Ringgold

#70. I don't try to overintellectua lize my concepts of people. In fact, the ideas I have, if you talk about them, they seem extremely corny and it's only in their execution that people can enjoy them ... It's something I've learned to trust: The stupider it is, the better it looks.

Annie Leibovitz

#71. Self-pity gets you nowhere. But insight to see that something can be done with the second-bests and adventurous daring to try might be a handle to take hold of.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

#72. I'm so busy trying to breathe through the pain that I'm breathing through the pain of being with people, and that is no way to spend a life. Eventually, they'll just go away, because you will make them sad. That's something I've proven quite adept at doing over the years.

Adam Duritz

#73. I went down to Houston and I stopped in San 'Antone, I passed up the station for the bus. I was trying to find me something, but I wasn't sure just what ... man, I ended up with pockets full of dust.

Ryan Adams

#74. There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is not limited to Sierra Leone. This story could apply to any number of places where ordinary people have been caught up in political events beyond their control.

Edward Zwick

#75. Cord put his hat on and pulled it low, hiding his eyes. 'Grown man walks around with his eyes shut tight, he shouldn't be surprised if he bumps into something he didn't see. You aren't trying to convince anybody of anything they don't want to believe.

Ellen O'Connell

#76. I might be like a conductor, or I collect the stuff together and I do a lot of my own writing. But what is a pleasure is the whole creative thing in which we're all excavating and trying to find something.

Simon McBurney

#77. All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it palatable. Otherwise it becomes a polemic, and people don't want to see it. If you're trying to get a message out to people, you've got to entertain them at the same time.

Larry Cohen

#78. If you want to do something, try it! The worst anyone you ask for help can do is say no.

Anne Beatts

#79. Freedom comes when you see the built-in contradiction of trying to manipulate something that is going right to begin with ... Stop trying to steer the river.

Deepak Chopra

#80. Something was nagging at me that I was trying to resist. Was it then or was it later that the thought came to me: if God really does exist, and is not just a myth, it must have a consequence for the whole of life. It was not a comfortable thought.

Jennifer Worth

#81. I enjoy mediation. I think the artist's position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that's between two cultures or two thoughts. We're always trying to reach, trying to expand something.

K'naan

#82. When people say you're doing something radical in rock or dance music, I'm not sure how special that is. What we do is so old-fashioned. It's like trying to do something innovative in tap-dancing.

Jonny Greenwood

#83. I'm trying to create artwork that makes people, and myself, think about judgment as a reflex. This is something that must be changed.

EL Seed

#84. I think Direct Cinema's trying to be insightful by looking at reality in a very close way while, in fact, much more is staged than we like to think. In cinema verite, it's about trying to make something invisible visible - the role of fantasy and imagination in everyday life.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#85. The balance when you're catching people up, and the craft of what we do as actors, is to try to make sure that the exposition sounds like thought and dialogue, and a plan or a problem or something that is motivationally induced, rather than just telling the audience information.

Jack Coleman

#86. Trying to get something for nothing?' - even mother nature abhors it.

Ufuoma Apoki

#87. spite of the tragedy in her childhood and the ever-present press of war, she had mostly considered herself happy. There was almost always something to take delight in, if you were trying.

Laini Taylor

#88. 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

#89. When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don't eat so much that you get stuck in the doorway trying to get out.

A.A. Milne

#90. The more you try to control something, the more it controls you. Free yourself, and let things take their own natural course.

Leon Brown

#91. Father laughed, which upset Bruno even more; there was nothing that made him more angry than when a grown-up laughed at him for not knowing something, especially when he was trying to find out the answer by asking questions.

John Boyne

#92. Life is so short. Why waste a single day of it doing something that doesn't matter, that doesn't try to do something big?

Dean Kamen

#93. I always try and tell dudes that are younger than me is that because of the Internet everyone can just be by themselves doing something, but the importance of a group is being able to have some sort of competition.

Earl Sweatshirt

#94. Carlsen came with a line that was not very theoretical, trying to challenge the World Champion to play chess. [ ... ] But Anand proved that even this obscure line is something he has studied before, and it was Carlsen that was set back.

Alejandro Ramirez

#95. I get why no one bothers with the usual rules," ... "I was in the war, too, you know. Nothing looks or feels the same anymore, so what's the point?" ... "Still, I miss good old-fashioned honorable people just trying to make something of life. Simply, without hurting anyone else.

Paula McLain

#96. I try to do something good, but when it doesn't go good, then I go like too much into myself, what I'm doing right, wrong, instead of thinking more what I have to do with the ball,

Dinara Safina

#97. They would ask people to do
something that is wrong? I thought angels were ... " She stumbled, trying to
think of a word to describe her preconceived notion. "Angelic," Jaycie Lerner

Natasha Larry

#98. Because that's what you do when something terrible happens. You go over and over every little thing, looking for clues, trying to find a pattern and a way to make sense out of the muddle and hurt.

Julia Green

#99. Everybody seems to have given up hope of trying. I haven't. It isn't easy and it isn't supposed to be, but I'm accomplishing something. How many people give up a lot to do something good. I'm sure we would have found a cure for cancer 20 years ago if we had really tried

Terry Fox

#100. In the past, the U.K. got away with selling things that weren't unusual. Now it's no use trying to export without having something that's unusual and better.

James Dyson