Attempting Quotes

Trying hard and working hard is its own reward. It feeds the soul. It affirms your will and your power. And it radiates from you, lighting the way for all those who see you.

John Lewis we all know was beaten terribly, almost to an inch of his life, opened doors that will never be closed, although there are forces that are attempting to close those doors.

I'm not attempting to be a role model but I accept that roles I've played put me in that position. I don't feel a huge responsibility as an actress to put my young fan base first.

Demons wait at crossroads attempting to influence our decisions.

The men who attempt to survive, not by means of reason, but by means of force, are attempting to survive by the method of animals.

Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.

... but every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood.

Live in such a way that unless God shows up what you're attempting to do is bound to fail. This is the nature of the Gospel.

Only the impossible is worth attempting. In everything else one is sure to fail.

The majority of women commit the strategic error of attempting to excel in a maximum of fields in order to satisfy all their customers' needs.

This is systems security for the Central Intelligence Agency. We would like to know why you are attempting to hack one of our classified databases.

The key to attempting to create art in some aspect is also knowing that it will turn some people off.

My personal definition of rock'n'roll is people attempting to do something that's beyond their ability to do it well. And whatever the outward contradictions, I do call us a rock'n'roll band.

Freedom. It's like no constraints, an opening, and then barriers going away and lifting and breaking and experimentation and...it's like attempting for something.

Overwinding happens when hedge funds destroy companies by attempting to leverage derivatives against otherwise productive long-term assets.

When I talk about the polling, I'm talking about the principles. It shows these officials are knowingly attempting to shift public opinion, even though they know what they say is not factual.

I would feel pretty embarrassed if I was doing what I do and I wasn't at least attempting the eloquent translation of the human experience in some way.

I'm new to the Twitterverse and so I'm attempting to build my followers. I'm trying to be a better tweeter. I try not to tweet too much, just when I've got something worthwhile to say.

The Zen Master was constantly attempting to break up concepts that people had about what it was like to be a spiritual teacher. We have a traditional image. Each Zen master was a complete character.

What I'm attempting in each picture is nothing other than this...to bring together in a living and viable way, the most different and the most contradictory elements in the greatest possible freedom.

I find it more enjoyable investing time doing what pleases me, rather than wasting precious time attempting to please everyone else.

Now, however, I see the folly of attempting to hitch one's wagon to a star with a harness that does not belong to it.

Leftist organizations are aggressively attempting to redefine America in their own Godless image.

My mother is currently associating with some undesirables who are attempting to transform her into an athlete of sorts, deprave specimens of mankind who regularly bowl their way to oblivion.

As failures go, attempting to recall the past is like trying to grasp the meaning of existence. Both make one feel like a baby clutching at a basketball: one's palms keep sliding off.

I remember the review from Michael Wilmington in Chicago, and Gene Siskel wrote really smart reviews where I thought, "Oh, they totally get what we're attempting to do."

I always want to be the best at whatever I'm attempting to do.

Attempting to grapple with improving end-of-life care is a political third rail.

See? You’re the crazy one, you redheaded freak. I’ve been attempting to translate the phrase into Latin. If I ever succeed, I shall make it my personal motto.

What if happiness is in fact more about remembering who we are, rather than attempting to change anything or anyone at all?

My dharma teaches me to give my life for the sake of others without even attempting to kill.

Unfortunately, several companies are attempting to deceive consumers through the unauthorized use of my image or my name, and my attorneys are pursuing those making these false claims.

I have been attempting to meditate more. Golf is my state of peace, though. The tranquility of a golf course, all of the trees, the oxygen. It puts me right at ease.

The truth is that there is no journey. You are right now what you are attempting to be. You are right now where you are attempting to go.

The secret to perseverance is a simple one: have a bigger commitment to getting the job done than to attempting to control your inner feelings and sensations.

Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.

We [the U.S.] think nothing... of attempting to inflict upon other peoples forms of government ill-tailored to their needs.

He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public. That statement only is fit to be made public, which you have come at in attempting to satisfy your own curiosity.

My biggest advice for women writer/directors is to always be attempting to make work that avoids pandering to the conceptions that the industry has put in place for "women directors."

The most common mistake we make as teachers is attempting to tell our students too much.

If you are attempting the impossible, you will fail.

I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.

You are attempting to be logical, I suspect, and logic has little to do with government, and nothing at all to do with military administration.

I swear you’re a woman. (Devyn) I would respond to that, but I don’t want to distract you while you’re attempting to drive and I’m dependent on you for my life. (Sway)

As the situation developed, the futility of attempting suicide in the middle of a hospital became apparent.

Most human beings who are accustomed to attempting to see the world from various points of view tend to be more liberal than conservative.

So much of the presidency is a matter of standing in the path of a Newsham Engine for Quenching Fires, opening one's mouth, and attempting to get a drink.

To be really useful, we must keep pace with the state of society, and not dishearten it by attempts at what its population, means, or occupations will fail in attempting.

Even while writing his book, he had become painfully aware how little he knew his own planet while attempting to piece together another one from jagged bits filched from deranged brains.

I do not think an enormous permanent underclass is a very good thing to have if you're attempting to operate something that at least pretends sometimes to be a democracy.