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There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts. -- Beck
In the midst of our failed attempts at loving Jesus, His grace covers us. -- Francis Chan
In the process of trial and error, Our failed attempts are meant to destroy arrogance and provoke humility -- Master Jin Kwon
Success is not determined by the amount of accomplishments, but by the road traveled & how you handled the recovery of each failed attempt. -- Behdad Sami
The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being YOU: they are unique manifestations of the human spirit. -- Wade Davis
The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being you; they are unique manifestations of the human spirit. -- Wade Davis
Success goes to those who dare to dream. And sometimes you have to take a little "scary action," as well. - Joe Vitale True success is always the last of a string of failed attempts to get it right. -- Walter Inglis Anderson
Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough. -- Sextus Propertius
I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed. -- Robert H. Schuller
We haven't done action movies in Germany. We had some attempts in the '90s, but they failed. -- Til Schweiger
It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write. -- Natasha Trethewey
The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan. -- Ben Affleck
It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible. -- Arthur Machen
I always look at a group of people who want to attempt an enterprise greater than their means. They begin on this enterprise and they fail. -- Mario Monicelli
I think it's better to attempt something and fail than it is to not even attempt it, so I'm glad that I've been prepared to put myself on the line there. -- Ian Thorpe
My first attempts to transmit typhus to laboratory animals, including the smaller species of monkeys, had failed, as had those of my predecessors, for reasons which I can easily supply today. -- Charles Jules Henry Nicole
Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century's attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission. -- James Buchan
The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success. -- Michael Korda
To attempt to write seriously is always, I feel, to fail - the disjunction between my beautifully sonorous, accurate and painfully affecting mental content, and the leaden, halting sentences on the page always seems a dreadful falling short. -- Will Self
In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA. -- Gregory Bateson
I still feel that a movie has to attempt to say something - even if it fails miserably. But I've sort of given up on believing that I'm going to change the world with every film I choose to act in. -- Sarah Polley
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
If D-Day - the greatest amphibious operation ever undertaken - failed, there would be no going back to the drawing board for the Allies. Regrouping and attempting another massive invasion of German-occupied France even a few months later in 1944 wasn't an option. -- Douglas Brinkley
After a couple of failed attempts, I came up with a weird tuning where I was dropping the G string down a step so that it became a seventh, and it got me to a place where I could play all these figures fairly easily. It was not an easy thing to work out. -- Lindsey Buckingham
It doesn't matter how many times you have failed.... What matters is the successful attempt. -- Maxwell Maltz
When my first attempt failed, fear brought into me a shock... I gave a smile, only to realize that my shock was gone. A smile is a shock absorber! -- Israelmore Ayivor

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