Quotes About Attempt

To examine ourselves is good; but useless unless we also examine Environment. To bewail our weakness is right, but not remedial. The cause must be investigated as well as the result. And yet, because we never see the other half of the problem, our failures even fail to instruct us. After each new collapse we begin our life anew, but on the old conditions; and the attempt ends as usual in the repetition—in the circumstances the inevitable repetition—of the old disaster.

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.

The New World Order is an attempt to overthrow God and replace Him with Satan. It says black is white, evil is good. It creates a bogus reality designed to serve the few and enslave the many.

I think it possible that Marxism was the first attempt, for our time, outside the formal religions, at a world-mind, a world-ethic. It went wrong, could not prevent itself from dividing and subdividing, like all the other religions, into smaller and smaller chapels, sects, and creeds. But it was an attempt.

Aame' is a new attempt. The entire film was shot using live sound technique.

So much of my writing derives from these questions that I ask myself - things that are utterly beyond my personal set of experiences - and it's my attempt to try to... understand, to sort of break out of my own consciousness, you know, the limitations of my own life.

What is modern art but the attempt to pinpoint vague, incorporeal, inexpressible sensations? What is modern art, I would add, but the most solemn pile of nonsense that ever appeared on Earth?

In order to fail, first you have to try.

First you say you're fine, then you say you're not. We call it "Hamlet Syndrome"- and attempt to get your own way by feigning insanity, generally by saying what comes into your head and dithering a lot. Mind you,' he added thoughtfully, 'it works a lot better if you're a prince.

First you say you're fine, then you say you're not. We call it "Hamlet Syndrome"- an attempt to get your own way by feigning insanity, generally by saying what comes into your head and dithering a lot. Mind you,' he added thoughtfully, 'it works a lot better if you're a prince.

it is with this same imperialism that present-day simulators attempt to make the real, all of the real, coincide with their models of simulation.

You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play.

The work of an artist who attempts lovingly to embrace reality, will ring false, will degenerate into kitsch.

The only way to 'find out if it will work out' is to do it.

'I tried and it didn't work' is a lot better than, 'I wish I'd tried'.

This is the first time I've done something like this and I'm really hoping this will work.

The original outline for 'Mississippi Grind' was actually an attempt to go funny. But when we showed it to people we realized that maybe it wasn't as funny to other people as it was to us - we have a pretty specific sense of what's funny - and then we thought, O.K., we need to do this more like we would actually make one of our movies.

It turns out that we're not the only ones who go out on a scientific limb as we discuss or attempt to discuss cars, car repairs and scientific education in America today.

The only true failure is the failure of not trying.

Just give it a try, please, Pyrite,

Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.

We can try our human best at the crucial moment, and it might not be good neough.

I had forgotten that, and so many things. How could I put everything down on paper? It seemed impossible. No matter what, the majority of life would be left out of this story, this sliver of a version of the life I'd known. But I tried anyway.

He tried several keys he had taken from her purse until one worked.