Attempt Quotes
1586 quotes by 1192 authors
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What can educators do to foster real intelligence?.. .We can attempt to teach the things that one might imagine the earth would teach us: silence,…
— David W. Orr
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Individuals who attempt to please and individuals who become angry both have authority issues.
— Gary Zukav
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The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the…
— Plato
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The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
— John Steinbeck
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Without making the fundamental choice to be the predominant creative force in your life, no matter what you do to attempt to benefit yourself or…
— Robert Fritz
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Every belief that you hold manifests itself in some manner by either causing you to take some form of action or by preventing you from…
— Chris Prentiss
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When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome. Only those who have learned…
— Robert H. Schuller
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The purpose of pure science is to observe phenomena and to trace their laws; the purpose of art is to produce, modify, or destroy. Strictly…
— Unknown Author
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I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to…
— Barry Goldwater
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Now, when ordinary people attempt to find happiness, I am not sure whether the happiness is really happiness or not. I study what ordinary people…
— Zhuangzi
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This work is an attempt to understand the time I live in.
— Albert Camus
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All of the American's foreign wars have been fought with foes either too weak to resist them or too heavily engaged elsewhere to make more…
— H. L. Mencken
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To find the best moves great Masters, with years of experience, engage in laborious research, and the moves thus found are blindly repeated by amateurs…
— Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
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Happiness lies not in happiness but only in the attempt to achieve it.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Everyday I attempt to consume 4,000 Calories and 200 grams of protein. I don't always reach that mark but when I go to bed at…
— Robert Cheeke
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We are all so bent and determined to get what we want, we miss the lessons that could be learned from life's experiences. Many of…
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Meditation is a deliberate attempt to pierce into the higher states of consciousness and finally go beyond it. The art of meditation is the art…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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See, I think our whole society is much too problem-solving oriented. It is far more interesting to participate in 'problem creation'... You know, ask yourself…
— Chuck Close
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That is what we have in revisionist historians. It starts with their own atheism, their own unbelief, and then they go back and attempt to…
— D. James Kennedy
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To attempt to enumerate the complicated variety of mischiefs in the whole system of the social economy, which proceed from a neglect of the maxims…
— Alexander Hamilton
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