Attempt Quotes
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The attempt to suppress an idea has always and everywhere proved a failure.
Helen Keller
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I think the most important advice is, a person doesn't have to find out right away. It's not like their first attempt at finding a profession is the only one they're going to find. I might well have gone down other paths, and it still might have been okay. But if you find something that you love, and if it keeps deepening with each new experience, then just stay with it.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Detest it as lewd intercourse, it can deprive you of all your leisure, your health, your rest, and the whole happiness of your life. Having himself spent a lifetime unsuccessfully trying to prove Euclid's postulate that parallel lines do not meet, Farkas discouraged his son János from any further attempt.
Farkas Bolyai
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There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
Jane Austen
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You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.
Angela Davis
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I think we are the first feminist or first attempt at a feminist dating app.
Whitney Wolfe Herd
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Any attempt at willful ignorance would now be futile or worse; the only talisman against excessive knowledge that might have puissance would be more knowledge.
Norman Spinrad
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I tried documentaries.It wasn't the time for me. I was going to try to do the same thing, I did make a valiant attempt but it did not work - to do the same thing with documentaries that we had done with the book club [in 2011]. The zeitgeist wasn't ready. It just wasn't ready.
Oprah Winfrey
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It's my first sort of commercial attempt, but it made sense for me because I'm not that kind of guy and I'm not going to continue to do that kind of movie.
Leonardo DiCaprio
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“Our grown-up was dinged and damaged. One of us was only thirteen and knew far less than he thought he did, and the eleven-year-old among us had to work to keep from whining. I wanted my mother in a powerful way, which I made a brave attempt to hide.”
T. R. Pearson
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Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
Simone de Beauvoir
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I had rather attempt something great and fail, than to attempt nothing at all and succeed.
Robert H. Schuller
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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
Robert H. Schuller
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The single most impressive fact about the attempt by American women to obtain the right to vote is how long it took.
Alice S. Rossi
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I approach every part I'm asked to do and decide to do from exactly the same angle: who is this person, what does he want, how does he attempt to get it, and what happens to him when he doesn't get it, or if he does?
Alan Rickman
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Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little.
Lee Iacocca
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Those who attempt to evangelize the culture by imitating its forms must beware lest the culture evangelize them.
Gene Veith
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...my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.
Jane Austen
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The sage does not attempt anything very big, and thus achieves greatness.
Lao Tzu
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To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one's own eye. Modern science can acknowledge no other than this epistemological stand-point.
Will Yun Lee
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I think Atom Heart Mother was a good thing to have attempted, but I don't really think the attempt comes off that well.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd
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Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Thomas A. Edison
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I will definitely attempt to sail around the world again. In fact, I can’t wait for the chance to try again.
Abby Sunderland
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Before you attempt to set things right, make sure you see things right.
Blaine Pardoe