Quotes About Endeavor

She would try to paint. She would always try, for the road to perfection held an irresistible lure, even if the destination remained always tantalizingly just beyond the farthest horizon.

Valiantly, he tried to bring his soul to life in the small thing through which it had to live, and it was crushed, again and again.

am not ready, nor worthy, I am climbing toward you.

Success shall crown my endeavors. Wherefore not? Thus far I have gone, tracing a secure way over the pathless seas, the very stars themselves being witnesses and testimonies of my triumph. Why not still proceed over the untamed yet obedient element? What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?

pursued him; and for many months this has been my task.

Culture is the endeavour to know the best and to make this knowledge prevail for the good of all humankind.

You have to try. Trying is the first step to whatever comes next.

I think that it's a sin to sit down and let your life go, without making a try for it.

There is no excuse for not trying.

We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect.

Everything, she wanted to scream at him, was a question of safety. All human endeavor bent itself to the same lost cause. Being kept inside a pumpkin shell your whole life was no guarantee against getting flung into space.

The term paradigm shift was introduced by Thomas Kuhn in his highly influential landmark book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Kuhn shows how almost every significant breakthrough in the field of scientific endeavor is first a break with tradition, with old ways of thinking, with old paradigms.

One of the most profound learnings of my life is this: if you want to achieve your highest aspirations and overcome your greatest challenges, identify and apply the principle or natural law that governs the results you seek. How we apply a principle will vary greatly and will be determined by our unique strengths, talents, and creativity, but, ultimately, success in any endeavor is always derived from acting in harmony with the principles to which the success is tied. Many

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

success in any endeavor is always derived from acting in harmony with the principles to which the success is tied.

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I'm smart enough to know that Elizabeth had no doubt seen dozens of men leap over curbs without her falling in love with the leaper, but I do believe this: When an endeavor is special in a person's life, others discern it intuitively and appreciate it more, like the praise a child receives for a lumpy clay sculpture. And as ordinary as such an event might be, it can be instilled with uncommon power.

Harder you Try, Luckier you get

There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. We are all different. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there's life, there is hope.

Today I believe in the possibility of love; that is why I endeavor to trace its imperfections, its perversions.

We love and we feel and we try and we hope.

Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance

No matter how defined, sex is a crucially important biological phenomenon—key to complex life itself—and its influence may therefore be genuinely detected or plausibly invented in any important field of endeavor and then exaggerated (while other factors of significant import are diminished in importance). In this manner, the single explanatory principle can be expanded indefinitely, in keeping with the demands placed upon it.