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Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches. -- Harold Evans
Attempting to write vocal oriented songs to me felt like going through the motions and if you are going to go through the motions you might as well just do any gig that caused you to do repetitive motions like banging a hammer or serving fries. -- Ronnie Montrose
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. -- John Stuart Mill
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. -- Horace Mann
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good. -- Calvin Coolidge
A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties. -- Franklin Pierce
After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes. -- Bob Woodward
Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums. -- Salvador Dali
You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now. -- Angela Davis
Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity. -- M. Scott Peck
The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail. -- John Wesley Powell
Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil. -- Horatio Nelson
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 are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested. -- Richard Branson
When you use music to worship you are not attempting to entertain. -- Cliff Richard
Attempting to grapple with improving end-of-life care is a political third rail. -- Katy Butler
Attempting to identify with the source is an idea. You are already that. -- Mooji
Attempting to understand consciousness with your mind, is like trying to illuminate the sun with a candle... -- Mooji
Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief. -- William Vickrey
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God. -- Henry A. Kissinger
As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven. -- Douglas Horton
It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world. -- William Cobbett
I'm a dreamer and continue to dream of what can and will be, "Expecting great things from God, Attempting great things for God -- William Carey
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
What the artist attempts to do is to try and tell a story. Attempting to give physical expression to a story that's internal. -- Gregory Crewdson
Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models with every day observation. -- Joseph Stiglitz
Attempting to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act of liberation is to treat them as objects that must be saved from a burning building. -- Paulo Freire
Any approach to strategy quickly encounters a conflict between corporate objectives and corporate capabilities. Attempting the impossible is not good strategy. It is just a waste of resources. -- Bruce Henderson
Plato ... says a multitude can never philosophize and hence can never recognize the seriousness of philosophy or who really philosophizes. Attempting to influence the multitude results in forced prostitution. -- Allan Bloom
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream. -- Gaston Bachelard
Attempting to define science fiction is an undertaking almost as difficult, though not so popular, as trying to define pornography... In both pornography and SF, the problem lies in knowing exactly where to draw the line. -- Arthur C. Clarke
Attempting mischievous and salutary irritation of his peers ... Keynes may only succeed in becoming an academic idol of our worst cranks and charlatans - not to mention the possibilities of the book as the economic bible of a fascist movement. -- Henry Calvert Simons
It's the little things that you do that can make a big difference. What are you attempting to accomplish? What little thing can you do today that will make you more effective? You are probably only one step away from greatness. -- Bob Proctor
Pornography is pornography, what is there to see? Movies are attempting to destroy something that's supposed to be the most beautiful thing a man and a woman can have by making it cheap and common. It's what you don't see that's attractive. -- Nancy Reagan
Gun control has proved to be a grievous failure, a means of disarming honest citizens without limiting firepower available to those who prey on the law-abiding. Attempting to use the legal system to punish the weapon rather than the person misusing the weapon is similarly doomed to fail. -- Doug Bandow
Attempting to do anything you haven't done before is always uncomfortable, and usually scary, but it is ALWAYS worth it. Fear disappears in the midst of action, and a better version of yourself awaits you on the other side of your fear. Feel the fear, and do it anyway... -- Hal Elrod
Attempting to build a language wall around Quebec is precisely the wrong policy to follow. It will keep out of Quebec exactly what we need to attract by way of talent and capital; it will drive our best - francophones as well as allophones and anglophones, with their talents and capital - to leave Quebec. -- Dick Pound
The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere. -- Xun Zi
Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting. -- Walter Kirn
Everything that I'm attempting to do is based on my understanding of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and what he wanted for his people. -- Louis Farrakhan
I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release. -- John Forbes Nash, Jr.
Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work. -- Nick Cave
We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America. -- Barbara Jordan
We may overcompensate for our feelings of powerlessness by attempting to control and manipulate other people and our environment. Or we may eventually burst forth with uncontrolled rage that is highly exaggerated and distorted by its long suppression. -- Shakti Gawain
Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
So many people think they need to have serious equipment. In the magazines and the media, they see all this stylish stuff, especially on TV, and they think, That's what I need to make it work. You don't. I'm attempting a little bit of liberation here. -- Sally Schneider
My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction. -- Melissa Gilbert
It is important to feel the anger without judging it, without attempting to find meaning in it. It may take many forms: anger at the health-care system, at life, at your loved one for leaving. Life is unfair. Death is unfair. Anger is a natural reaction to the unfairness of loss. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
All my time not devoted to my master's service was spent either in prayer, or in making experiments in casting different things in moulds made of earth, in attempting to make paper, gunpowder, and many other experiments, that, although I could not perfect, yet convinced me of its practicability if I had the means. -- Nat Turner
Religion is as necessary to reason as reason is to religion. The one cannot exist without the other. A reasoning being would lose his reason, in attempting to account for the great phenomena of nature, had he not a Supreme Being to refer to; and well has it been said, that if there had been no God, mankind would have been obliged to imagine one. -- George Washington
We're not attempting to circumcise rules. -- Bill Cowher
Demons wait at crossroads attempting to influence our decisions. -- April Smith
If you are attempting the impossible, you will fail. -- Robert Heller
Taking 1,000 meetings attempting to get backing to do clothing... -- Kanye West
Stop trying to change reality by attempting to eliminate complexity. -- David Whyte
Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Despotic rules are attempting to deprive women of their rights. -- Yousef Saanei
attempting to find in motion what was lost in space. -- Tennessee Williams
Creativity is a powerful force for anyone attempting to heal themselves. -- Frazey Ford
Serving and attempting to inspire others is a responsibility, not a choice. -- Bill Courtney
Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself. -- Ben Stein
The earth is attempting to rid itself of an infection by human parasite. -- Richard Preston
Spirituality is committing suicide. Consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence. -- Jaron Lanier
By attempting the impossible one can attain the highest level of the possible. -- August Strindberg
Leftist organizations are aggressively attempting to redefine America in their own Godless image. -- Jerry Falwell
Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery. -- Ram Dass
You will not grow without attempting to do things you are unable to do. -- Henry Cloud
Only the impossible is worth attempting. In everything else one is sure to fail. -- Celia Green
The only thing tougher than developing leadership skills is attempting to be successful without them. -- Orrin Woodward
Why does merely attempting to understand Reality so often seem to lead to going insane? -- Ashleigh Brilliant
It was tough attempting to be social with people who'd rather pretend you didn't exist. -- Heather Brewer
You must hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I had more skill in what I'm attempting, I wouldn't need so much courage -- Ashleigh Brilliant
Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged. -- Felicity Huffman
...men unite against none so readily as against those whom theysee attempting to rule over them. -- Xenophon
Ego is constantly attempting to acquire and apply the teachings of spirituality for its own benefit. -- Chogyam Trungpa
The most common mistake we make as teachers is attempting to tell our students too much. -- Robert H. Frank
I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy. -- Robin Hobb
As the situation developed, the futility of attempting suicide in the middle of a hospital became apparent. -- Steig Larsson
Legacy media accuses young people of being apathetic while actively attempting to remove them from the discussion. -- Hank Green
Overwinding happens when hedge funds destroy companies by attempting to leverage derivatives against otherwise productive long-term assets. -- Douglas Rushkoff
Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess. -- Samuel Johnson
It doesn't seem to be worth wasting a lot of energy on attempting to rewrite the past. -- Douglas Tompkins
It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable. -- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos. -- Aristotle
I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
To speak the gospel skillfully without attempting to perform the gospel is a false proclamation of the gospel. -- William Henry Willimon
An argument in a couple: 2 people attempting to introduce each other to important truths - by panicked shouting. -- Alain de Botton
He moved in a way that suggested he was attempting the world speed record for the nonchalant walk. -- Terry Pratchett
A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth. -- Walter Martin
How many relationships have been ruined by two people attempting to squeeze the Jesus out of each other? -- Donald Miller
I had been attempting novels since I was 14 but always ran out of steam. High hopes, poor craftsmanship. -- Michel Faber
My dharma teaches me to give my life for the sake of others without even attempting to kill. -- Mahatma Gandhi
There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit oneâ??s emotions. -- Ayn Rand
Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new. -- Anthony de Mello
We are attempting, by this Constitution, to abolish factions, and to unite all parties for the general welfare. -- Alexander Hamilton
It pains me deeply to see members of my own party attempting to legislate women's health and contraception choices. -- Linda Lingle
To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. -- Alexander Pope
To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them. -- Rene Descartes
The most reliable ways to make oneself miserable are attempting to change people and not attempting to change circumstances. -- Carolyn Hax
Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Real Christians revel in desperate ventures for Christ, expecting from God great things and attempting the same with exhilaration. -- Charles Studd
When we humans speak, we are not merely communicating information but attempting to make an impression and achieve a goal. -- Francine Prose
We [the U.S.] think nothing...of attempting to inflict upon other peoples forms of government ill-tailored to their needs. -- Ralph Peters
Alexander Berkman was a self-declared atheist attempting to lift the stultifying fog of the gods from the mind of humankind. -- David Burns
A man of understanding finds less difficulty in submitting to a wrong-headed fellow, than in attempting to set him right. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Although attempting to bring about world peace through the internal transformation of individuals is difficult, it is the only way. -- Dalai Lama
I don't have a clue about the way to achievement, however the way to disappointment is attempting to please everyone. -- Bill Cosby
...it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done. -- Terry Pratchett
The key to attempting to create art in some aspect is also knowing that it will turn some people off. -- Dane Cook
I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children. -- Randy Pausch
The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. -- Horace Mann
Too many young people are being taught to give up their dreams before they have any experience attempting to pursue them. -- Robert Fritz
There is nothing more negligent than attempting to address a problem one finds on a branch than by censoring the leaves. -- Saul Williams
To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language. -- George Santayana
When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity. -- Edwidge Danticat
I value an entrepreneur I can get behind and trust, because I know they are attempting to move forward in life. -- Daymond John
I considered not getting up, but recognized the pain of staying down was worse than the pain of attempting to stand. -- Reba Riley
I find it more enjoyable investing time doing what pleases me, rather than wasting precious time attempting to please everyone else. -- Greg Reid
It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible. -- Arthur Machen

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