Quotes About Endeavor

The philosophical study of nature endeavors, in the the vicissitudes of phenomena, to connect the present with the past.

It was the fact that they tried so hard that doomed them.

Uma tentativa infeliz vale mais do que a ausência de tentaiva

You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave.

Well, I wanted to play football and I chased football for a little while.

Actually, I wanted to act even when I was still playing football.

I always say that I'll have a go and see whether the poem works and if it does, then fine.

I read a very romantic book when I was young, when I was in college: Rilke's 'Letters to a Young Poet.' And I've always felt that if you are in any kind of an artistic, creative endeavor, and you feel there's something else you can do for a living and be happy, I think you should do something else.

Sometimes when you miss out on points, it is a pity, it is a shame, because we tried to do everything in the game.

You know that it is only through work that you can achieve anything, either in college or in the world.

I searched so hard for a part that was so complex.

The only way you can get a hit is if you take a swing.

Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.

Excellence is always a matter of effort, and no one is capable of more than a certain amount of effort.

You're guaranteed to miss every shot you don't take.

In future just remember one thing: you're guaranteed to miss every shot you don't take.

I believe there is a relationship between having an interest in the arts and the behaviour of society as a whole. Some politicians find it difficult that the arts is a weapon of happiness... Politics is often about deprivation rather than the opening up of ideas and nourishing creative endeavour.

But wasn't artistic endeavor the final refuge of the uncommitted?

The wounds of war, Juliet thought, rather pleased with the way the words sounded in her head. It could be the title of a novel. Perhaps she should write one. But wasn't artistic endeavor the final refuge of the uncommitted?

For their kind do not know what it is to risk everything in the endeavor to rise above the mediocre.

Cabia a cada um de nós fazer o máximo da própria vida.

Si estamos llamados al éxito, debemos ir tras él —dijo.

But at least I tried

But I tried though, he says. Goddammit, I sure as hell did that much, now, didn't I?