Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.
Interpretation
This quote encourages taking action and learning from failure instead of avoiding risks.
Franklin D. Roosevelt emphasizes the importance of taking action and experimenting with different methods in the pursuit of goals. He advocates for acknowledging failures openly and learning from them, rather than being deterred or paralyzed by the fear of failure. The call to 'try something' highlights the necessity of being proactive and engaged in oneβs pursuits, suggesting that taking risks is an essential part of success.
In practice
In a motivational speech to encourage students to embrace challenges.
There has been one persistent theme through all Axis propaganda. This theme has been that Americans are admittedly rich, that Americans have considerable industrial power - but that Americans are soft and decadent, that they cannot and will not unite and work and fight. ... Let them tell that to the Marines!
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.
Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
A world turned into a stereotype, a society converted into a regiment, a life translated into a routine, make it difficult for either art or artists to survive. Crush individuality in society and you crush art as well. Nourish the conditions of a free life and you nourish the arts, too.
If you are not moving closer to what you want in sales (or in life), you probably aren't doing enough asking.
I'm hopeful that at the end of my life, someone like Frederick Douglass would look at my life and say, 'Well done: you've proven yourself to be worthy of the legacy we left you.'
You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water.
I think the most important thing about playing is to walk out with confidence, look the people right in the eye and say 'Here I am,' and go and do your thing. As soon as they know you're confident, they're confident. As long as you adjust to them you're not in trouble. You should eyeball them, find out what they want, and give it to them. They didn't pay to come out and look at the tapestries.
I have a message for my fans. Whatever you want to do in this world, it is achievable. The most important thing that I've found, that perhaps you could use, is be passionate and enthusiastic in the direction that you choose in life, and you'll be a winner.
But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count.
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