Quotes with attempt

  • Seemingly unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. Much progress, therefore, depends on such people.
  • We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.
  • In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.
  • Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.
  • If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
  • The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
  • The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
  • Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.
  • If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.
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  • Ovid I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Heywood Broun The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality.
    Heywood Broun
    American Journalist, Novelist (1888 - 1939)
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  • Bernard Crick A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.
    In Defence Of Politics Ch. 4, A Defence Of Politics Against Nationalism,
    Bernard Crick
    British political theorist (1929 - 2008)
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  • Albert Einstein An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension: Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a circle, twist it into a sphere, and punch through the sphere.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Derek Walcott Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.
    Derek Walcott
    Saint Lucian poet and playwright, winner Nobel Prize in Literature (1930 - 2017)
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  • Andy Goldsworthy As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone.
    Andy Goldsworthy
    British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist (1956 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz Asset managers have different approaches, and I don't wish to suggest there is only one way to run money. There are many ways one can attempt to reduce risk, improve performance, lower drawdowns and reduce volatility.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Baltasar Gracián Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • John Haggai Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.
    John Haggai
    American evangelist (1924 - )
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  • Bette Davis Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Ann Coulter Clinton's attempt to socialize healthcare was the second most disgusting thing he did in the oval office. I can't remember was the first thing was.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Bill Blass Each individual piece is a calculated attempt to entice women to add to their wardrobe.
    Bill Blass
    American fashion designer (1922 - 2002)
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  • Stephen Hawking Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.
    Stephen Hawking: A Biography (2005) by Kristine Larsen
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Amelia Barr Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.
    Amelia Barr
    British novelist and teacher (1831 - 1919)
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  • Emma Goldman Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Sidney Madwed Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.
    Sidney Madwed
    American business consultant, lyricist and author
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  • Alfred Adler Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Phyllis Schlafly Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.
    Phyllis Schlafly
     
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  • Queen Victoria For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.
    Queen Victoria
    Queen of Great Britain (1819 - 1901)
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