Quotes About Attempting

In the end, a lack of focus is usually just fear: fear that whatever project I'm attempting will go nowhere or fail miserably.

You won't believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.

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.

It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the master work. Now, I'm beginning what I could have started ten years ago. But I'm happy at least that I didn't wait twenty years.

I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work.

Confidence allows you to progress in something you're attempting to accomplish, whether it's playing basketball or baseball or whether it's trying to succeed in business.

I guess trying to help is considered being immature now guys. Done trying.. Sorry for attempting to be a good friend.

Until man rouses himself from his current orgy of pride, it is not worth the trouble attempting anything. Only looks not thrown out of focus by pride attain that lucid vision of the world which confirms what we preach.

At the point of encounter there are neither yet ignoramuses nor perfect sages; there are only people who are attempting, together, to learn more than they now know.

And by attempting to explain everything, even as it recognizes that this is impossible since the very principles of explanation are themselves obscure. Balzac necessarily ends up like Scheherazade, telling stories night after night to stave off the silence of the end.