Attempt Quotes

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Creativity does not derive from order but from the attempt to impose order where it does not exist, to make new connections. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter
The chief art of learning, as Locke has observed, is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the mind are made… — Samuel Johnson
I take it that a monograph of this sort belongs to the ephemera literature of science. The studied care which is warranted in the treatment… — Gilbert N. Lewis
The student of biology is often struck with the feeling that historians, when dealing with the rise and fall of nations, do not generally view… — Ronald Ross
A premature attempt to explain something that thrills you will destroy your perceptivity rather than increase it, because your tendency will be to explain away… — Edwin Land
Both morally and practically, segregation is to me a basic injustice. Since I believe it to be so, I must attempt to remove it. There… — Bayard Rustin
Every native of every place is a potential tourist, and every tourist is a native of somewhere. Every native everywhere lives a life of overwhelming… — Jamaica Kincaid
Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character. — Sue Monk Kidd
When writing of oneself one should show no mercy. Yet why at the first attempt to discover one's own truth does all inner strength seem… — Georges Bernanos
No attempt must be made to encase man, for it is his destiny to be set free. — Frantz Fanon
I think of myself as a journeyman actress. I will attempt almost anything that I think that I can bring off. It could be almost… — Angela Lansbury
My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand. — Thom Gunn
The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of… — Terry Eagleton
To keep a diary is to attempt a difficult literary form. Its effectiveness is likely to derive from a special blend of honesty and appetite… — William Plomer
Whatever I do, I attempt to do it fully. I try, and don't always succeed, to be thorough. There are musicians who do not know… — Bill Dixon
Never attempt to catch a whale with a minnow. — P T Barnum
You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset. — Robert Cormier
I find that it isn't wise to attempt to judge people on their public persona, and even on the music they make. Because I've met… — Steven Morrissey
I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life. — Todd Akin
Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God. — Victoria Jackson

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