Keep Trying Quotes - Page 9

• I feel like I need just to keep trying to make the work for the right reasons. I think part of that is working with really good people, and just trying to make strong truthful work. And not being diverted from that.

  Cate Shortland

  Strong, Thinking, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I... keep trying to find a way to become what I'd like to be and what I could be if... if only there were no other people in the world.

  Anne Frank

  People, Trying, World

  Anne Frank (2011). “The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition”, p.195, Bantam

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• I've recorded at home since I was a teenager, and I'm able to sit here in my underwear and keep trying different things until something works. I think if I did that in a studio the engineer would be like, "What the hell is wrong with you?"

  Mac DeMarco

  Teenager, Home, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you fail to succeed the first time, keep trying. It's called life.

  William Cranch Bond

  Trying, Firsts, Succeed

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• Just keep trying things, without really understanding the underlying fibers of well-being, or peace or civility, then you're just going to stumble from one disaster to another.

  Charles Koch

  Understanding, Trying, Fiber

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• You're going to go through times when you don't do too well, or you may have some slumps or get outpitched. Just keep going up there and having your at-bats, keep having your same approach and keep trying to make little adjustments like you do during the season.

  Jason Heyward

  Trying, Bats, Slumps

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• I just keep trying to explain what's going on with our planet - and now, to explain what's going on with our politics, which explains why we're not doing anything about the former.

  Bill McKibben

  Trying, Planets, Former

  Source: www.wolverinefarm.org

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• We [with Rick Rubin] would focus on the ones that we did like, that felt right and sounded right. And if I didn't like the performance on that song, I would keep trying it and do take after take until it felt comfortable with me and felt that it was coming out of me and my guitar and my voice as one, that it was right for my soul.

  Johnny Cash

  Song, Voice, Guitar

  Source: wrvo.org

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• We need to keep trying to rescue the Constitution from the President.

  Nat Hentoff

  Trying, President, Needs

  Source: www.humanlifereview.com

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• I do know that I need solitude, not only to write but to nourish myself (being, like most writers, an introvert) so that I do keep trying to write.

  Katherine Paterson

  Writing, Solitude, Trying

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• For me, language is about the impossibility of communicating what we precisely wish to communicate and this gorgeous attempt that we make to do that anyway. I love that we will never say exactly what we mean, but we will forever keep trying.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Mean, Forever, Wish

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• Success is achieved and maintained by those who keep trying with positive mental attitude. What you try for is up to you.

  W. Clement Stone

  Attitude, Trying, Up To You

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• When you become successful and a depression or any other unfavorable circumstance arises which causes you a loss or defeat, act on the self-motivator: Success is achieved by those who try and maintained by those who keep trying with a positive mental attitude. This is the way to avoid being crushed.

  W. Clement Stone

  Attitude, Successful, Loss

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• We have to think in a very different sense than the way we think now. We think in terms of quick fixes, that solutions will come out of a few protest demonstrations, and calling upon the government to do something. And we can keep trying to do that, and it won't work.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Thinking, Government, Trying

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• People say, "Well, we're all just going to die and go to heaven anyway, or Jesus is going to come back" or something. I don't feel like God wants us just to lay down and die just because that's going to happen. I think we should keep trying.

  Charlie Daniels

  Jesus, Thinking, People

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• You might want to keep trying to rise, using a path that builds on your natural strengths: sales, analysis, managing people, whatever, and keep asking for honest feedback. When you reach the point at which it feels clear you've topped out, revise your job description or take a step back. Up is not the only way.

  Marty Nemko

  Jobs, People, Trying

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• What keeps me going? I guess it's just a desire to keep trying to contribute and do things in life.

  Cal Ripken, Jr.

  Things In Life, Trying, Desire

  Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. February 16, 2007.

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• I keep trying to find ways to shift the viewer's attention away from the object they are looking at and toward their own perceptual process in relation to that object. The question for me always is: how can I make you aware of your own activity of looking, instead of losing your attention to thoughts about what it is that you are looking at?

  Uta Barth

  Trying, Attention, Way

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• Like a ventriloquist who laughs at his dummy's jokes, I keep trying to make photographs that seduce me into believing in the image - all the time knowing better, but believing anyway.

  Larry Sultan

  Believe, Knowing Better, Laughing

  "At Home With Larry Sultan" by Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 7, 2014.

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• The goal is not necessarily to succeed but to keep trying, to be the kind of person who has ideas and see them through.

  Esme Raji Codell

  Ideas, Goal, Trying

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• Keep trying. It's only from the valley that the mountain seems high.

  Zig Ziglar

  Trying, Mountain, Valleys

  Ziglar, Zig (1985). “Steps to the Top”, p.220, Pelican Publishing

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• When things go right (and they go right a lot - you just got to keep trying) there is nothing to really laugh about.

  Ronnie Apteker

  Laughing, Trying

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• I keep trying to tell people that Los Angeles is already the largest Indian city in the U.S., that there are Toltecs playing Little League baseball in Pasadena, Mayans making beds at the Marriott in Westwood, and Chichimecs driving buses in L.A. Los Angeles is a majority-Indian city.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Baseball, Cities, League

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The media cannot come separate [Donald] Trump from his supporters. Only Trump can do that. They're trying, they're gonna keep trying because they think they can. They did it with [George W.]Bush. They did it with [Mitt] Romney. They did it with [John] McCain. They did it with Bob Dole.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Media, Trying

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• We are caught in a trap, a cycle, in which we keep trying to solve the world's problems at every level - except the level at which the problems exist.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Trying, World, Levels

  "A Revolution Is What's Called For Here" by Neale Donald Walsch, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

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