I never put much stock into movie quotes. To me they always seem like pseudo intellectual catch phrases designed to make the common critical thinking lacking human being say 'whoa, that's deep.' Well, from time to time I tend to eat my words and this happens to be one of those times. I've heard these words hundreds of times, but this short phrase, uttered by an even shorter character, is actually quite sound.
"Do, or do not. There is no try."
A simple statement, but it is true, there is no try. You're either doing it or you are not doing it, trying to do something is by definition to have not done it yet, thus putting you in the category of 'do not.' A surprisingly insightful quote, one which demands further elaboration in the future and one which has made me think to pay attention a little bit more to movie quotes, as I am now wondering what other nuggets I might've missed.
Monday, October 19, 2009
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