attempt quotes

• Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people. (George Bernard Shaw) [people/people/attempt/civilization & progress]
• When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity. ( Napoleon I) [men/attempt]
• I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years. (Warren Buffett) [attempt/money/market/market]
• Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. (Bette Davis) [attempt/order]
• This became a credo of mine: attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. (Bette Davis) [attempt/order]
• To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster! (Denis Diderot) [attempt/destruction/order/desire]
• To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization. (Albert Einstein) [attempt/process]
• The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while. (Albert Einstein) [attempt/wisdom/power]
• Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought. (Albert Einstein) [science/attempt/experience/system]
• One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly. (Albert Einstein) [attempt/nature]
• An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension: Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a circle, twist it into a sphere, and punch through the sphere. (Albert Einstein) [attempt/take/point]
• Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing. (George Eliot) [life/impressions/attempt/process]
• Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian. (Emma Goldman) [attempt/change/possibilities/human]
• The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it. (Vaclav Havel) [attempt/literature/thing/literature]
• There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have succeeded, this is nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is realizable. Reality does not have to be: it is simply what it is. (Eugene Ionesco) [attempt/reality]
• The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life. (Henry James) [attempt/life]
• In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots to rights, either in fact or principle. They are determined as to the facts they will believe, and the opinions on which they will act. Get by them, therefore, as you would by an angry bull; it is not for a man of sense to dispute the road with such an animal. (Thomas Jefferson) [state/result/attempt/facts]
• While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. (Samuel Johnson) [misfortune/attempt/misfortune/willpower]
• Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates. (Samuel Johnson) [misfortune/attempt]
• The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits of those in straitened, dangerous, or pitiful circumstances, the middle class seeks to have what it feels to be the exigent and nonequivocal experiences had by those it emulates. (David Mamet) [fashion/attempt/class/speech]
• Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory. (Giuseppe Mazzini) [age/faith/attempt/facts]
• Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the last two years is a half-hearted attempt to find a way back to a more balanced relationship between our biological selves and the world we have built. So women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too. (Margaret Mead) [women/attempt/find/more]
• In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other. (Henry Miller) [attempt/defeat/death/defeat]
• I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement. ( Ovid) [attempt]
• Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art. (Ezra Pound) [religion/attempt/art]
• The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt to increase the sum of what it is possible to think. Books become good when they go to this edge and risk falling over it --when they endanger the artist by reason of what he has, or has not, artistically dared. (Salman Rushdie) [artist/attempt/think/books]
• If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail. ( Seneca) [art/attempt]
• Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people. (George Bernard Shaw) [people/people/attempt/civilization & progress]
• Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force. (Oscar Wilde) [opinion/attempt/ignorance]
• I always say, "You hire Al Lewis, you get the whole Al Lewis." He's loud, he's opinionated, he smokes terrible cigars, that's it. I can't be and I'm not going to attempt to be what someone thinks I should be. That's the road to hell. (Al Lewis) [attempt]
• The day that they attempt to bulldoze the first garden, if ten thousand people are standing there, the garden will never be bulldozed. (Al Lewis) [day/attempt/garden/people]

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