Attempt Quotes
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I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves, follow from the necessity and efficacy of nature... I shall, therefore, treat the nature and strength of the emotion in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes, and solids.
Baruch Spinoza -
“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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In the late '80s, the U.S.S.R. loosened its restrictions on immigration. When the government was like, 'Y'all wanna bounce?' my family, along with tens of thousands of other Jews ran for the door in an attempt to make a better life in America.
Milana Vayntrub -
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force, for force only causes resistance.
Lao Tzu -
Never be discouraged, because every wrong turn attempt, when left behind you, is another step forward taking you closer to your goals.
Thomas A. Edison -
I had rather attempt something great and fail, than to attempt nothing at all and succeed.
Robert H. Schuller -
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 -
Work without faith is like an attempt to reach the bottom of a bottomless pit.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
Simone de Beauvoir -
Before you attempt to set things right, make sure you see things right.
Blaine Pardoe -
The first step in learning to love others is the attempt to understand them.
Adrienne von Speyr -
The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.
Michael Korda -
He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone.
Seneca the Younger -
Fox bought the rights to the book way back when, and there was this attempt by Fox to make a movie out of 'The Hot Zone,' and it tended tragically in a Hollywood disaster involving Robert Redford and Jodie Foster and Ridley Scott. But the rights have been sitting at Fox ever since.
Richard Preston
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Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
Thomas A. Edison -
Science is not the mere collection of facts, which are infinitely numerous and mostly uninteresting, but the attempt by the human mind to order these facts into satisfying patterns.
Cyril Norman Hinshelwood -
To ward off disease or recover health, people as a rule find it easier to depend on healers than to attempt the more difficult task of living wisely.
Rene Dubos -
The poems are part of my attempt to understand being in the world in an honest way.
Dan Beachy-Quick -
One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.
Auguste Renoir -
Okay, I'm flattered, I appreciate your attempt at making me feel better after the fiasco with the pita rolls, but please ring up this beer I need it more than flattery.
Amanda Filipacchi
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I am always making that what I am not capable, in an attempt to learn how to doing it.
Pablo Picasso -
A blanket attempt to avoid mistakes is the biggest mistake of all.
Steve McConnell -
To callow wings no flight is too high to attempt. At sixteen all things are possible.
Annie Fellows -
I am determined to defend my rights and maintain my freedom or sell my life in the attempt.
Nathanael Greene