Attempt Quotes

1586 Attempt quotes by 1192 unique authors

Spend the most time with your best people. ... Talent is the multiplier. THe more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the… — Marcus Buckingham
I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the eyes. — Jean Helion
At the end of the day, you can decide whether you want to be an employee with a great attendance record, getting promoted to ever… — Steve Blank
That's already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong. — Aaron Levie
Consular offices make no attempt to determine whether the person obtaining the card is legally in the United States. In fact, the only people who… — Elton Gallegly
It is perfectly obvious that the whole world is going to hell. The only possible chance that it might not is that we do not… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
No new creation or destruction of matter is within the reach of chemical agency. We might as well attempt to introduce a new planet into… — John Dalton
Believers can have both religion and science as long as there is no attempt to make A non-A, to make reality unreal, to turn naturalism… — Michael Shermer
Now writing is just working your way toward the border that the innermost secret draws around itself, and to cross that line would mean self-destruction.… — Christa Wolf
When the Turkish authorities gave the orders for these deportations, they were merely giving the death warrant to a whole race; they understood this well,… — Henry Morgenthau, Sr.
For me, the strength of photography lies in its ability to evoke humanity. If war is an attempt to negate humanity, then photography can be… — James Nachtwey
The attempt to discover and promulgate the truth is nevertheless an obligation upon all scientists, one that must be persevered in no matter what the… — Peter Medawar
I long for the simplicity of theatre. I want lessons learned, comeuppances delivered, people sorted out, all before your bladder gets distractingly full. That's what… — John M. Ford
I attempt all day, at work, not to think about what lies ahead, but this costs me so much effort that there is nothing left… — Lydia Davis
It seemed to a number of philosophers of language, myself included, that we should attempt to achieve a unification of Chomsky's syntax, with the results… — John Searle
The boy detective thinks, The only thing all men have in common with one another is their inherent capacity to make mistakes. He reasons, But… — Joe Meno
The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control. — Benjamin Tucker
Political [or individual] rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but only when they have become… — Rudolf Rocker
No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a… — Elizabeth Bowen
If the Government gets into business on any large scale, we soon find that the beneficiaries attempt to play a large part in the control.… — Calvin Coolidge
No attempt to explain the world, either scientifically or theologically, can be considered successful until it accounts for the paradoxical conjunction of the temporal and… — Paul Davies
I end up writing about all kinds of things. I never make an attempt to write about anything in particular. I don't have a little… — Tracy Chapman
In the attempt to make scientific discoveries, every problem is an opportunity — and the more difficult the problem, the greater will be the importance… — E. O. Wilson
[Language allows you] to implant a thought from your mind directly into someone else's mind, and they can attempt to do the same to you,… — Mark Pagel
The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world. — Richard Branson

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