A Quote by Epictetus

Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.

Epictetus

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Epictetus
Greek - Philosopher
50 - 138

A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and without care.

Epictetus

Certainty creates strength. Certainty gives one something upon which to learn. Uncertainty creates weakness. Uncertainty makes one tentative if not fearful, and tentative steps, even when in the right direction, may not overcome significant obstacles.

John M Barry

For the theory-practice iteration to work, the scientist must be, as it were, mentally ambidextrous; fascinated equally on the one hand by possible meanings, theories, and tentative models to be induced from data and the practical reality of the real world, and on the other with the factual implications deducible from tentative theories, models and hypotheses.

George E. P. Box

Being in the mood to write, like being in the mood to make love, is a luxury that isn't necessary in a long-term relationship. Just as the first caress can lead to a change of heart, the first sentence, however tentative and awkward, can lead to a desire to go just a little further.

Julia Cameron

You can't play tentative.

Matt Cassel

It's never the plan to be tentative.

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

There is nothing as tentative as an old woman's touch; as loving or as horrible.

Anne Enright

I am not a tentative person. Whatever I do, I give up my whole self to it.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

When you're aggressive behind the plate, calling a game, that's when you're at your best. You can't be tentative.

Jorge Posada

Right now people seem to be very tentative about the positive benefits of capitalism.

Jeb Bush

Your soul: pure glucose edged with hints Of tentative and half-soiled tints

Edith Sitwell

From the psychological jousting between sisters in the early family arena emerge the first tentative boundaries of their personalities.

Elizabeth Fishel

I don't like people being cautious and tentative and choosing their words carefully around me because I'm a dwarf.

Peter Dinklage

Part of the story of Ghosts of Ascalon is how they got to that tentative truce where you can find humans and charr working together.

Jeff Grubb

Part of the story of 'Ghosts of Ascalon' is how they got to that tentative truce where you can find humans and charr working together.

Jeff Grubb

Fiction, maybe art in general, is a tentative, uncertain enterprise; it's not science, it's an exploration, but you never find much in the way of answers.

Tim O'Brien

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