No Point In Trying Quotes

When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change.

There is no point in trying to remember your dreams … There is only the unspeakable joy of eavesdropping on your spirit, catching tiny glimpses of its independent life, resting for a moment in its wisdom, puzzling, laughing sometimes, over what it’s up to, what it makes of you.

Years ago I read an interview with Paula Fox in which she said that in writing, truth is just as important as story. Reading that interview was the first time I really understood that there’s no point in trying to impress people with my cleverness when I can just try to write honestly about what matters most to me.

The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.

If at first you don’t succeed, try management.

Once you let the words go, you have no control over how they’re printed or what the media does with them. So there’s no point in trying to make plans or to control it.

I suppose when the things that give you bad dreams live inside you, there’s no point in trying to stop them. They’re going to come out whenever they decide it is their time. Better just to close your eyes and hold on tight, the faster to get the things you fear to go back to sleep themselves.

Is photography an art? There is no point in trying to find out if it is an art. Art is old-fashioned. We need something else.

In modelling, there is no point in trying to prove you have a brain, so why even bother? I’d sooner save the energy for something more meaningful.

Above all, in order to gain respect, you need to be true to yourself. There is no point in trying to be brutal if it’s not in your nature; there is no point in trying to be suave and sophisticated if it doesn’t come naturally.

Roy received my comments with a forced smile. “Hardy, didn’t I warn you not to date a woman who reads?” Hardy seemed amused by my outspokenness. “Keeps the arguing to a minimum,” he replied. “No point in trying when I know she’s going to win.

If at first you don’t succeed, try hard work.

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again.

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no point in being a damn fool about it.

Sometimes I go out disguised, but people still recognize me, so I find there is no point in even trying. It would be nice to get away from it, from time to time, but the fact is, there is no place on earth where I can go unrecognized.

If you have grasped the purpose of life there is no point in trying to make life into something it is not or cannot be.

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.