Quotes About Attempt

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.

It was a great challenge creating the Zumbarons. Coming up with the elements for each was the hardest, but it only took us one attempt and we were happy with the flavor.

Die Psychologie ist schon deshalb zum Scheitern verurteilt, weil wir den absurden Versuch unternehmen, unser Gehirn mit unserem Gehirn verstehen zu wollen.

There is very much in the world that is bad. But usually the attempt to defeat evil engenders more evil. I advise you to do good; that is the only way to win the victory!

Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough.

But she had to try. Her own love for Robert was a strong pain that she would have to bear for the rest of her life if she must. But if there was a chance that he loved her too and that their separation had not been of their own making, then she felt compelled to try to make possible a reconciliation. She had to put every ounce of effort into the attempt.

I postponed this attempt for some months longer; for the importance attached to its success inspired me with a dread lest I shall fail.

The faces stood out, separate, lonely, no two alike. Behind each, there were the years of a life lived or half over, effort, hope and an attempt, honest or dishonest, but an attempt. It had left on all a single mark in common: on lips smiling with malice, on lips loose with renunciation, on lips tight with uncertain dignity—on all—the mark of suffering.

The main issue was the attempt to make the country accept mass civil disobedience as a proper and valid tool of political action.

There is no excuse for not trying.

Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.

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everything that passes unattempted is impossible.

Mind, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavor to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.

You do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but you have lost love because you never attempted obedience.

Maybe your misery is your attempt to prove the world's injustice, instead of the evidence of your own sin, your own missing of the mark, your conscious refusal to strive and to live.

To my mind losing is always better than never trying, because you can never tell what may happen.

I am persuaded, that if any attempt is made to improve the education of the poor, and such an unmanly spirit should guide the resolution of a society or committee for that purpose, it would render the design abortive.

There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have succeeded, this is nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is realizable. Reality does not have to be: it is simply what it is.

'Deer Hunter' is a movie; it is not an attempt to write history.

I was given a chance to try announcing, and it was a job that, in the end, I did not care for very much.

If the code does indeed have some logical foundation then it is legitimate to consider all the evidence, both good and bad, in any attempt to deduce it.

A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event -- either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.

Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.