Quotes About Attempt

I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.

If the work is worthwhile, then whether we can complete it or not, it's worth making the attempt. That's why courage is important.

I tried to get Steven Seagal for my 'Stepfather Factory' video in 2002.

It was an attempt to stick the Congress's finger in King Hussein's eye.

Freeman's Journal next morning (5 January) for his 'criminal attempt to divide the nation' by his Document No. 2 which the Freeman found 'much worse' than the Treaty.

The theoretical attempt to avoid colluding with totalitarianism has created a situation in which we have lost the thread of universal emancipation.

One must always attempt to make good films, even if you fail it is ok. It is a journey, you have both good and bad days.

This is how memory works: not as a transcription but as an attempt—as an essay is an attempt . . . to locate meaning between the irretrievable then and the equally unfathomable now.

evangelical translators are simply trying to paper over a discrepancy.

Man is simply playing by nature's rules,and art is man's attempt to imitate the beauty of the Creator's hand

I want you to understand this mite fale and then nothing woud happen at all. Or it mite even sucseed temperary and leeve you werse off then you are now.

It doesn't matter what he thinks of himself. Sure he's egotistic, so what? It takes that kind of ego to make a man attempt a thing like this. I've seen enough of men like him to know that mixed in with that pompousness and self-assertion is a goddamned good measure of uncertainty and fear.

Fear of failure must never be the reason not to try something.

If you don't try, you will not succeed. This is true for of all things. Not succeeding is the result of not trying.

"Failure is not the worst thing in the world. The very worst is not to try."

It is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an age that has forgotten how to think historically in the first place.

But I can try it. I can try to do it.

Philosophy is an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.

With such incomparable sources so soon available and with the memory of life in Nazi Germany and of the appearance and behavior and nature of the men who ruled it, Adolf Hitler above all, still fresh in my mind and bones, I decided, at any rate, to make an attempt to set down the history of the rise and fall of the Third Reich.

étrier step, pulled delicately on the next one, and tried

The key isn't winning -- or losing, it's making the attempt. I may never be what I ought to be, want to be -- but how will I know unless I try? Sure, it's scary, but what's the alternative? Stagnation - A safer, more terrible form of death. Not of the body, but of the spirit. An animal knows what it is, and accepts it. A man may know what he is -- but he questions. He dreams. He strives. Changes. Grows.

We put you to the test; we failed.

They tried their best with each other, but it just wasn't any good.

Prepare, and be forewarned in time. If thou hast tried and failed, O dauntless fighter, yet lose not courage: fight on, and to the charge return again and yet again.... Remember, thou that fightest for man's liberation, each failure is success, and each sincere attempt wins its rewards in time.