Ry Cooder Quotes

If you had hope, maybe you could find a way to make things change,. Because if you thought about it, there were so many reasons to try.

Nothing's hopeless except never trying.

I always say to people when I'm trying to get something going, bringing on other producers or other directors, "You can think of 95 reasons why not to make a movie. You've got to address why you want to make the movie and get it done. Just do it." I tend to live by that rule.

There is no excuse for not trying.

You just have to try before thinking that you can't.

If the thing is impossible, you need not trouble yourselves about it; if possible, try for it.

Never think of any right effort as being fruitless. All right effort bears fruit, whether we see the results or not.

Trying is always enough.

Sometimes you just have to try, even if you know it won’t work.

You cannot win if you cannot run.

In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

However impenetrable it seems, if you don't try it, then you can never do it.

I never feel there's anything I can't do.

The only failure is not to try.

Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, 'It can't be done.'

If you don't have any confidence, you're not going to do anything.

I know I have the ability to start, and I have the ability to play.

If you go out there with doubts or unsure what's going to happen, it's not going to go your way.

I don't think something is a failure if you put your all into it. I'm a big fan of the saying, "Nothing beats a failure but a try."

The willingness to do creates the ability to do.

He started to sing as he tackled the thing. That couldn't be done, and he did it.

Tell me a way you think this can work." "We'll find a way," I tell her. "That's not an answer. It's a hope." "Hope's gotten us this far. Not answers.

You got up, and you did something. And if trying to find a way when you don't even know you can get there isn't a small miracle; then I don't know what is.

Plans get you into things, but you got to work your way out.

I will not fail,' the water bearer's daughter vowed. 'But worse than failing is not to try at all. For then there can be no hope of success.