Impossible Quotes - Page 11

• This is one of my favorites. People think of creativity as this sort of unbridled thing, but engineers thrive on constraints. They love to think their way out of that little box: 'We know you said it was impossible, but we're going to do this, this, and that to get us there.'

  Marissa Mayer

  Creativity, Thinking, People

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• One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Men, Average

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.22, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has become both impossible and easy.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Art, Anomalies, Way

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• What is the best music is impossible to define. Just because it's played by a virtuoso player, doesn't mean it's great music. It might not reflect the soul of a people, which is really my criteria for great music.

  Mickey Hart

  Mean, Player, People

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• It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and honorably and justly, and it is impossible to live wisely and honorably and justly without living pleasantly. Whenever any one of these is lacking, when, for instance, the man is not able to live wisely, though he lives honorably and justly, it is impossible for him to live a pleasant life.

  Epicurus

  Men, Able, He Man

  "Principal Doctrines". Translated by Robert Drew Hicks,

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• Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Like Me

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• I always wanted to be a writer but everyone kept telling me it was impossible to break into the field or make money. I've proven them wrong on both counts.

  Barbara Hambly

  Fields, Making Money, Break

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• All a man has is pride. Sometimes you have it so much it is a sin. We have all done things for pride that we knew were impossible. We didn't care. But a man must implement his pride with intelligence and care.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Pride, Men, Done

  Ernest Hemingway (1970). “Islands in the stream”, Scribner Book Company

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• By being a racing driver you are under risk all the time. By being a racing driver means you are racing with other people. And if you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver because we are competing, we are competing to win. And the main motivation to all of us is to compete for victory, it's not to come 3rd, 4th, 5th or 6th. I race to win as long as I feel it's possible. Sometimes you get it wrong? Sure, it's impossible to get it right all the time. But I race designed to win, as long as I feel I'm doing it right.

  Ayrton Senna

  Motivation, Mean, Winning

  Interview at the 1990 Australian Grand Prix, November 1990.

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• The philosophy of praxis does not aim at the peaceful resolution of existing contradictions in history and society, but is the very theory of these contradictions. It is not the instrument of government of the dominant groups in order to gain the consent and exercise hegemony over the subaltern classes. It is the expression of subaltern classes who want to educate themselves in the art of government and who have an interest in knowing all truths, even the unpleasant ones, and in avoiding the impossible deceptions of the upper class, and even more their own.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Art, Philosophy, Exercise

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• I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.

  Debi Thomas

  Dream, Stupid, Goal

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• It's impossible to translate Wall Street greed into one or two demands.

  Cornel West

  Wall, Two, Greed

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• People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a person to be cheated by anyone but himself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Long, People, Suffering

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• Spend time cultivating your deepest desires, no matter how impractical or impossible they seem. It's perfectly OK to want the impossible. It's not OK to pretend that your desires don't matter.

  Steve Pavlina

  Thought Provoking, Desire, Want

  Steve Pavlina (2010). “Personal Development for Smart People”, p.65, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• My life isn't that dramatic. My dad really loves me, he just can't talk on the phone. He's too crippled and shy, and that's almost harder. He's there and he loves me, and I try and try and try, it's just impossible to have a relationship.

  Joey Lauren Adams

  Dad, Father, Phones

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When God wants to do an impossible task, he takes an impossible man, and he crushes him.

  Alan Redpath

  Crush, Christian, Men

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• Life is like the Internet: sometimes is almost impossible to connect.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Sometimes, Internet

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Mar 29, 2012

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• Life is not a beauty contest, some [ugly people] are great. What I hate is nasty, ugly people... the worst is ugly, short men. Women can be short, but for men it is impossible. It is something that they will not forgive in life... they are mean and they want to kill you.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Hate, Mean, Men

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• All I feel are the assaults of apprehension and terror at the thought that I am the only one who is entirely unlike the rest. It is almost impossible for me to converse with other people. What should I talk about, how should I say it? - I don't know.

  Osamu Dazai

  People, Should, Assault

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.26, New Directions Publishing

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• That last rep where you're trying as hard as you can and you barely make it!
  That is what turns on the growth mechanism in your body.
  That last almost impossible rep where you're bearing your teeth, you're shaking all over, you need assistance!
  That rep is very special, that rep is very different. There's something special going on inside your body when that happens.

  Mike Mentzer

  Over You, Growth, Special

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• Make every day count.
  Make every hour count.
  Make every minute count.
  And don't stop until you have exercised your full potential, realizing your impossible dream and fulfilling your total destiny to become the person that you, and only you , are capable of being.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Dream, Destiny, Full Potential

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• It is almost impossible to say the name of Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawat without adding 'give a dog a bone'

  Rory Bremner

  Dog, Names, Giving

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• In 1933-34, the Belgians conducted a census in order to issue ‘ethnic’ identity cards, which labelled every Rwandan as either Hutu (85%) of Tutsi (14%) or Twa (1%). The identity cards made it virtually impossible for Hutus to become Tutsis, and permitted the Belgians to perfect the administration of an apartheid system rooted in the myth of Tutsi superiority… Whatever Hutu and Tutsi identity may have stood for in the pre-colonial state no longer mattered; the Belgians had made ‘ethnicity’ the defining feature of Rwandan existence.

  Philip Gourevitch

  Ethnicity, Order, Issues

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• In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened…

  Vin Scully

  Years, Happened, Improbable

  "Vin Scully On His Legendary Broadcast Career". "The Hugh Hewitt Show", www.hughhewitt.com. July 3, 2012.

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• Without the letters of condolence, telegrams of congratulations and even occasional postcards, the friendship of a separated friend is not a social reality. It has no existence without the rites of friendship. Social rituals create a reality which would be nothing without them.

  Mary Douglas

  Congratulations, Condolences, Reality

  "Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo".

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