Willing To Try Quotes:

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Change, Single, Moving, Safety Zone, Willing To Try

If you want to play the game and win, you've got to play 'full out.' You've got to be willing to feel stupid, and you've got to be willing to try things that might not work - and if they don't work, be willing to change your approach. Otherwise, how could you innovate, how could you grow, how could you discovery who you really are?

- Tony Robbins

topic: Motivational, Stupid, Winning, Willing To Change, Willing To Try

You cannot improve your future if you are not willing to try something new and risk making mistakes and learning from them

- Robert Kiyosaki

topic: Mistake, Risk, Trying, Making Mistakes And Learning From Them, Willing To Try

I feel like any experience you can have which adds to your repertoire of things you've done and can add to your character - I'm willing to try.

- Christa B. Allen

source: "'Revenge' Star Christa B. Allen Talks Turning 21 and Jen Garner's Great Advice". Interview with Stacie Anthony, www.wonderwall.com. October 3, 2012.

topic: Character, Trying, Add, Willing To Try

The company without a strategy is willing to try anything.

- Michael Porter

topic: Trying, Strategy, Company, Willing To Try

I'm not perfect, I'm a flawed man, but I'm willing to try to get better, I'm willing to listen.

- Nate Parker

source: Source: www.ebony.com

topic: Men, Perfect, Get Better, I'm Not Perfect, Willing To Try

We sometimes think of being good at mathematics as an innate ability. You either have "it" or you don't. But to Schoenfeld, it's not so much ability as attitude. You master mathematics if you are willing to try.

- Malcolm Gladwell

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude, Willing To Try

It's taken me a long time to learn to accept the risks and just be willing to try it over and over again.

- Uma Thurman

topic: Taken, Long, Risk, Willing To Try

To live an art-filled life, one must be willing to try new things & accept that things change.

- Lee Hammond

topic: Art, Trying, Things Change, Willing To Try

I've thought about it, not a lot, but I thought my relationship with Congress - the Democrats and Republicans - would help me get some things done. Not everything, but at least they'd be willing to try.

- Bob Dole

topic: Trying, Done, Helping, Willing To Try

I think one of the lessons of the Depression - and this is something that Franklin Roosevelt demonstrated - was that when orthodoxy fails, then you need to try new things. And he was very willing to try unorthodox approaches when the orthodox approach had shown that it was not adequate.

- Ben Bernanke

topic: Thinking, Trying, Unorthodox, Willing To Try

Customers are willing to try new things, and if you can survive, you will have fewer competitors. It's like entering the eye of the storm. As long as you are strong enough to survive, you can end up in still water by yourself.

- Brian Chesky

topic: Strong, Eye, Long, Willing To Try, Strong Enough

[Brad Furman] wants to try stuff, he's willing to try stuff. And he wants electricity on the camera. And that's what I want, I want electricity whenever I'm performing.

- John Leguizamo

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Trying, Cameras, Want, Willing To Try

If things are ever to move upward, some one must take the first step, and assume the risk of it. No one who is not willing to try charity, to try non-resistance as the saint is always willing, can tell whether these methods will or will not succeed.

- William James

source: William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.325, Library of America

topic: Moving, Risk, Trying, Willing To Try

It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist.

- Stanislaw Ulam

source: "Adventures of a Mathematician". Book by Stanislaw Ulam, 3rd edition. Chapter 3: "Travels Abroad", p. 55, 1991.

topic: Giving Up, Creative, Trying, Willing To Try

Science has been effective at furthering our understanding of nature because the scientific ethos is based on three key principles: (1) follow the evidence wherever it leads; (2) if one has a theory, one needs to be willing to try to prove it wrong as much as one tries to prove that it is right; (3) the ultimate arbiter of truth is experiment, not the comfort one derives from one's a priori beliefs, nor the beauty or elegance one ascribes to one's theoretical models.

- Lawrence M. Krauss

source: Lawrence M. Krauss (2012). “A Universe From Nothing”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

topic: Keys, Ethos, Common Sense, Willing To Try

Some kinds of activists are more willing to try stuff out, see if works and think on their feet, but some of the people who are working on [change] find that very difficult: They've been schooled into thinking you have to come up with the perfect plan in advance. It has become a bit technocratic.

- Duncan Green

source: Source: www.macleans.ca

topic: Thinking, Feet, Perfect, Willing To Try

It's only when we have nothing else to hold onto that we're willing to try something very audacious and scary.

- Sonia Johnson

topic: Scary, Trying, Audacious, Willing To Try

No one can hate petitions worse than I, and no one has less faith in them than I. But for my champion I am willing to try any means that invades no other's right, even though I have little hope in it.

- Voltairine de Cleyre

topic: Hate, Mean, Champion, Willing To Try, Petitions

Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company, willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end.

- E. O. Wilson

topic: Winning, Order, Growth, Willing To Try

Every company needs to have a skunkworks, to try things that have a high probability of failing. You try to minimize failure, but at the same time, if you're not willing to try things that are inherently risky, you're not going to make progress.

- Nolan Bushnell

source: "Q&A: Atari Founder Nolan Bushnell on Innovation, the “Next Steve Jobs” and Why Mobile Games Are “Over”". Interview with Eric Johnson, allthingsd.com. March 26, 2013.

topic: Progress, Trying, Needs, Willing To Try

There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as "caring" and "sensitive" because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to try to do good with other people's money. Well, who isn't? And a voter who takes pride in supporting such programs is telling us that he'll do good with his own money - if a gun is held to his head.

- P. J. O'Rourke

topic: Pride, Caring, Gun, Willing To Try, Government Programs

And so, we end with a beginning. Because every ending is really a beginning. All you need is a house that's old and creaky ... filled with lots of books ... a cat ... a person who's willing to try again ... someone who promises never to leave ... and most important of all ... a little Hope.

- Kate Klise

topic: Book, Cat, House, Willing To Try

With no chance to take off, I had to play my role, searching for the rendezvous spot, which gave me the excuse to look for an escape opportunity. Maybe a hole in the wall too small for Tori’s mom to follow me through or a precarious stack of boxes I could topple onto her head or an abandoned hammer I could brain her with. I’d never “brained” anyone in my life, but with Tori’s mom, I was willing to try.

- Kelley Armstrong

source: Kelley Armstrong (2009). “The Awakening”, p.56, Penguin Group

topic: Mom, Wall, Opportunity, Rendezvous, Willing To Try

What I've found about it is that there are some folks you can talk to until you're blue in the face--they're never going to get it and they're never going to change. But every once in a while, you'll run into someone who is eager to listen, eager to learn, and willing to try new things. Those are the people we need to reach. We have a responsibility as parents, older people, teachers, people in the neighborhood to recognize that.

- Tyler Perry

topic: Running, Teacher, Responsibility, Willing To Try

People who earn the label "creative" are really just people who come up with more combinations of ideas, find interesting ones faster, and are willing to try them out. The problem is that most schools and organizations train us out of those habits.

- Guy Kawasaki

topic: Inspirational, School, Organization, Willing To Try

I believe we can keep the promise of our founders, the idea that if you're willing to work hard, it doesn't matter who you are or where you come from or what you look like or who you love. It doesn't matter whether you're black or white or Hispanic or Asian or Native American or young or old or rich or poor, able, disabled, gay or straight, you can make it here in America if you're willing to try.

- Barack Obama

topic: Believe, Hard Work, Native American, Willing To Try, Black Or White

As long as you have faith, you're willing to try to take another chance. God wants you to amble toward the right spot on the horizon. The idea is that you're willing to get up and keep moving toward that light.

- Billy Corgan

topic: Perseverance, Moving, Light, Willing To Try

One of the great things about being willing to try new things and make mistakes is that making mistakes keeps you humble. People who are humble learn more than people who are arrogant.

- Robert Kiyosaki

topic: Mistake, Inspiration, Humble, Making Mistakes And Learning From Them, Mistakes And Learning

People are starting to acknowledge the direction the media is going. This is a good sign that we'll continue to deliver satire and news and opinion in new and different ways. Why be limited by the medium? I hope that there are more cartoonists and people who are willing to try something new.

- Mark Fiore

topic: Media, People, Trying, Willing To Try

I think the real risk comes in being willing to try to be authentic.

- Dan Wieden

source: "Art & Copy". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2009.

topic: Real, Thinking, Risk, Willing To Try

The emotionally sound person should be able to take risks, to ask himself what he really would like to do in life, and then to try to do this, even though he has to risk defeat or failure. He should be adventurous (though not necessarily foolhardy); be willing to try almost anything once, just to see how he likes it; and look forward to some breaks in his usual life routines.

- Albert Ellis

topic: Risk, Trying, Sound, Willing To Try, Foolhardy

I also feel I adapted. I was willing to try to fit into any role. The way I figured, it was always up to me to prove my worth, that I deserved to be here.

- Steve Yzerman

topic: Sports, Trying, Roles, Adapted, Willing To Try

Confidence makes you willing to try harder and attracts the kind of support from others that makes "winning" possible.

- Rosabeth Moss Kanter

topic: Winning, Support, Trying, Willing To Try

I was encouraged, though, because I saw feminist writers - male and female - calling out the bias. I feel like more and more writers are cognizant of the problems and are willing to try to challenge them.

- Paula Broadwell

source: Source: www.vanityfair.com

topic: Willing To Try, Cognizant

When your way doesn't work, don't be disheartened. You must be willing to try another way. A closed door doesn't mean you have been cut off permanently. It is a challenge, an obstacle, a tool to be used.

- Iyanla Vanzant

source: FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Sep 08, 2014

topic: Mean, Cutting, Doors, Willing To Try, Closed Doors

I'm very patient and always willing to try things but I have some resistance as well because I have my own vision. I have resistance sometimes because I see a director who's freaking out and wants to have control and they sometimes anticipate about what I'm going to be doing or not.

- Juliette Binoche

source: "Juliette Binoche Talks ‘Elles,’ Masturbation & her Upcoming Portrayal of Camille Claudel". Interview with Matt Mueller, www.indiewire.com. April 23, 2012.

topic: Vision, Trying, Directors, Willing To Try, Freaking Out

Even without comparing ourselves to the world's greatest, we set such high standards for ourselves that neither we nor anyone else could ever meet them-and nothing is more destructive to creativity than this. We fail to realize that mastery is not about perfection. It's about a process, a journey. The master is the one who stays on the path day after day, year after year. The master is the one who is willing to try, and fail, and try again, for as long as he or she lives.

- George Leonard

source: George Leonard (1991). “Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-term Fulfillment”, Plume Books

topic: Creativity, Journey, Years, Willing To Try

Unless you are willing to try, fail miserable, and try again, success won't happen.

- Phillip Adams

topic: Trying, Miserable, Failing, Willing To Try

A good ice hockey player is someone who has good communication skills, is willing to listen and willing to try new things. It's a very technical game and not that easy to pick up. It's a lot of fun but you just have to be patient.

- Gerad Adams

source: Source: www.bbc.co.uk

topic: Fun, Communication, Hockey, Willing To Try, Communication Skills

China is exciting because it is an extremely curious and interested market. What more can a designer ask for? The client here is bold and willing to try new things, which a country with a long fashion history wouldn't dare. France or England is weighed down by all these rules, elaborate etiquette, do's and don'ts. Things here move incredibly quickly.

- Michael Kors

source: "Michael Kors Talks Kim Kardashian and Bar Mitzvah Fashion in Shanghai". Interview with Alice Pfeiffer, www.elle.com. May 14, 2014.

topic: Country, Fashion, Moving, Willing To Try

I love cooking all different things, so any form of meat, fish, anything else. I do have a really strict diet, but it's all protein and veg basically. When you are on a diet like that you have to get inventive, so you have to be willing to try any different fish that's out there. Probably a favourite of mine is some baked trout fillets, on a salad.

- Greg Rutherford

topic: Cooking, Trying, Meat, Cooking Love, Willing To Try

I tend to keep my mind open to the different forms of art out there and I am always willing to try new stuff.

- St. Lucia

topic: Art, Mind, Trying, Willing To Try, New Stuff