Quotes About Endeavor

Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.

Nought venture nought have.

The only worthwhile idea is the one on which you take action.

If you want sucess,you must pursue it.

There was no grand design behind any of it: just a series of fumbling attempts to do something.

There was nothing in her immediate ancestry to account for her. There was no explaining her except by the theory that some fierce spark of endeavor, lit by a forgotten pioneer ancestor, had lived on in the contented stuff of succeeding generations until the wind of a new age whipped it into a flame that was called Marianne Le Patourel. . . . Or by the theory propounded by the peasant nurse of her babyhood, who had vowed she was a changeling.

man's function is not just to think—which Aristotle admits to be the highest of all human activities—but also to do.

Don't think, try. —John Hunter

Man's labors! Explosions that, from time to time, illuminate my abyss.

Every human being is a problem in search of a solution.

Each man has in him the potential to realize the truth through his own will and endeavour and to help others to realize it.

I will aim at the moon to reach the highest bounty.

Greatness and fiasco is the same. You're reaching for something just out of your grasp, and if you get it, it's great, and if you don't, it's a disaster.

I don't know if anything I write will endure, but I do try to write it as a narrative that will not only challenge but also entice the reader into the lives of children.

You come out of drama school and do theatre and are interested in creative endeavour, then you drift into TV and movies and realise that artistic endeavour needs to balance with financial success. There's no point spending millions on a movie that doesn't make any money, because the people producing it won't make another one.

It was a complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's constant support we wouldn't have gotten to the end.

Success should always be just beyond your grasp.

My wife tells me I always have to have a project. A 'projectophile' or something. It's true. I always feel like the grass is growing under my feet.

The gratification comes, for me, in the doing of it. And once I've done it, I can't do anything about it if it's good or if it's bad.

I didn't have the great American novel burning inside me, but I felt I could try my hand at popular fiction.

I always look at a group of people who want to attempt an enterprise greater than their means. They begin on this enterprise and they fail.

You have to give your best as you can't guarantee the success of your film, but you can always give a good performance.

He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.

I would love to direct - or try my hand at it, anyway.