First Attempt Quotes
33 quotes by 32 authors
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Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who…
— Richard Branson
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Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that…
— Rudolf Arnheim
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A first attempt to recover the right of self government may fail, so may a second, a third, etc. But as a younger and more…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Science advances by trial and error. When mistakes are made, the peer-review publication process usually roots them out. Cuccinelli's version of the scientific process would…
— Scott Mandia
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Due to affirmative action, about half of the black law students fall to the bottom 10% percent of the class and they are 2.5 times…
— Peter Kirsanow
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That's already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.
— Aaron Levie
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No one is able to produce a great work of art without experience, nor achieve a worldly position immediately, nor be a great lover at…
— Alain de Botton
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The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.
— Pablo Picasso
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I am trying to get the hang of this new fangled writing machine, but I am not making a shining success of it. However, this…
— Mark Twain
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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
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When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.
— Maud Adams
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All of us, in a sense, struggle continuously all the time, because we never get what we want. The important thing which I've really learned…
— Mukesh Ambani
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It is quite clear to me that the religious paradise of youth, which [I] lost, was a first attempt to free myself from the chains…
— Albert Einstein
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It was at Inver Slane, to the north of Leinster, the sons of Gaedhal of the Shining Armour, the Very Gentle, that were called afterwards…
— Lady Gregory
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Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts,…
— Christopher Hitchens
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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
— Quintilian
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Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He copies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He’s convinced that…
— Pablo Picasso
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Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose a mix of…
— Ayn Rand
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What? You mean to travel almost five hundred miles alone? No. I can’t let you do that. I . . . I forbid you.†It…
— Tessa Dare
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