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Trying Quotes by George Saunders
- Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible.
- Life is short, very short, and what are we doing here if not trying to become more generous and loving?
- If you at least try to do the things that excite you, it will make you a more expansive and present person - you’ll feel,…
- A work of art is something produced by a person, but is not that person — it is of her, but is not her. It’s…
- It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat, for all the…
- We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.
- So for me the approach has become to go into a story not really sure of what I want to say, try to find some…
- I don't think much new ever happens. Most of us spend our days the same way people spent their days in the year 1000: walking…
- Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up…
More Trying Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold
- I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to… — Darren Aronofsky
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to… — Antonin Artaud
- Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. — Mary Kay Ash