Quotes About Attempting

you can't help but feel uncomfortable," because it becomes clear that fear of failure "keeps us from attempting great things . . . and life gets dull. Amazing things stop happening." But if you can get past that fear, Dugan said, "Impossible things suddenly become possible.

one day she started making this gesture. It wasn't an ASL sign at all, and I realized with a shock—I'm sorry, but you won't believe this—that she was crossing herself. I can hardly believe it now when I look back, that this . . . this man was attempting to make Jennie into a Christian. Why the Archibalds put up with it is entirely beyond my comprehension.

MOM LIKED THE Ritalin. And she found it had a terrific and unexpected side effect—it helped her read. The day she first tried it, she was tired and uncomfortable and having trouble concentrating. She popped the Ritalin right before she sat down with Thomas Mann's Joseph and His Brothers, a fifteen-hundred-page book that she'd been attempting to read after a friend gave it to her.

Take off that cloak before you melt, he said. It wasn't disguising you. Nor is that - she waved at his peasant outfit - disguising you. It isn't supposed to. It merely conveys the message that I'm attempting to pass incognito. That makes absolutely no sense.

This is systems security for the Central Intelligence Agency. We would like to know why you are attempting to hack one of our classified databases.

That intersection between dream and reality is what I am attempting to capture here, akin though it is to trying to pinpoint the origin of the Iliad, or what would later become the Roman Empire, or Michelangelo's Moses, or the theory of gravitation. Nonetheless,

It just seems that you were talking positively about McDonald's, that they are... attempting this healthy lifestyle, and yet when we're talking right now... it seems that you're saying they need to make more responsibility.

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.

Writing a comedy script is a difficult thing. I think if someone is attempting a comedy and then they fail then it's understood.

I am attempting to understand Telugu and then give my dialogues. But language is not a barrier for me.

moment as the two men's gazes met, neither attempting

As my father stretches to understand my journey I realize that maybe you can't change the world by your actions alone, but you can change yourself. And when you do, the world around you may change by attempting to understand you, as we all try to understand each other.

I am now confident about attempting a Hindi film. I believe if you have a good story to tell, audiences will watch it.

There is nothing more negligent than attempting to address a problem one finds on a branch than by censoring the leaves.

I am in all truthfulness attempting to be cheerful about this whole topic, though most people find themselves hindered in believing me, no matter my protestations.

Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting.

The sheer scale of what the Tories are attempting to do is staggering. But Sinn Fein will not agree to this ideologically driven austerity agenda.

He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth.

That's always an interesting concept when you try to make your dream into a reality and you come up against the facts of exactly what it is you're attempting to do.

I have been drawn to stories that are attempting to turn suffering into beauty.

I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it

Attempting to squash your permeating stench of a loser by bum rushing every girl you come across is a bad look.

Before she could look to find a wound he had control of the vision once again, but like a juggler attempting to hold too many balls in the air catching one meant loosing another.

What we require is a balance between protest and stability. This is never easy to obtain but is worth attempting, because we know that if through indifference we lose our liberties we shall not regain them in this century.