Impossible Quotes - Page 19

• Les Misérables etches Hugo's view of the world so deeply in the mind that it is impossible to be the same person after reading it.

  Graham Robb

  Reading, Views, Mind

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• You cannot attain and maintain physical condition unless you are morally and mentally conditioned. And it is impossible to be in moral condition unless you are spiritually conditioned. I always told my players that our team condition depended on two factors / how hard they worked on the floor during practice and how well they behaved between practices.

  John Wooden

  Team, Player, Two

  John Wooden, Jack Tobin, Bill Walton (2004). “They Call Me Coach”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Bold prayers honor God, and God honors bold prayers… The bigger the circle we draw, the better, because God gets more glory. The greatest moments in life are the miraculous moments when human impotence and divine omnipotence intersect — and they intersect when we draw a circle around the impossible situations in our lives and invite God to intervene.

  Mark Batterson

  Prayer, Impossible Situations, Omnipotence

  Mark Batterson (2011). “Be a Circle Maker: The Solution to 10,000 Problems”, p.6, Zondervan

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• If your not daring to believe God for the impossible, your sleeping through some of the best parts of your Christian life.

  Steven Furtick

  Christian, Believe, Sleep

  Steven Furtick (2010). “Sun Stand Still: What Happens When You Dare to Ask God for the Impossible”, p.7, Multnomah

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• I like the immaterial world. I like to live among thoughts and images of the past and the possible, and even of the impossible, now and then.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Past, World, Now And Then

  Thomas Love Peacock (1861). “Gryll grange, by the author of 'Headlong hall'.”, p.80

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• While we pursue the unattainable, we make impossible the realizable.

  Robert Ardrey

  Unattainable, Pursue

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• If every animal shelter in the United States embraced the No Kill philosophy and the programs and services that make it possible, we would save nearly four million dogs and cats who are scheduled to die in shelters this year, and the year after that. It is not an impossible dream.

  Nathan Winograd

  Dream, Dog, Philosophy

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• It is a happy day when we come to know that with God's help, nothing is impossible for us.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Helping, Happy Day, Knows

  Marvin J. Ashton (1982). “Ye Are My Friends”, Shadow Mountain

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• Incidentally, when we're faced with a "prove or disprove," we're usually better off trying first to disprove with a counterexample, for two reasons: A disproof is potentially easier (we need just one counterexample); and nitpicking arouses our creative juices. Even if the given assertion is true, our search for a counterexample often leads to a proof, as soon as we see why a counterexample is impossible. Besides, it's healthy to be skeptical.

  Ronald Graham

  Learning, Creative Juices, Two

  Ronald L. Graham, Donald Ervin Knuth, Oren Patashnik (1989). “Concrete mathematics: a foundation for computer science”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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• Although as a rule the absurd culminates, and it seems impossible for the voice of the individual ever to penetrate through the chorus of foolers and fooled, still there is left to the genuine works of all times a quite peculiar, silent, slow, and powerful influence; and as if by a miracle, we see them rise at last out of the turmoil like a balloon that floats up out of the thick atmosphere of this globe into purer regions. Having once arrived there, it remains at rest, and no one can any longer draw it down again.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Powerful, Voice, Miracle

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• In the East all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East everybody is against the ego from the very beginning. Because of this anti attitude, ego never becomes strong, never comes to a point of integration from where it can be thrown. It is never ripe. So in the East it is very difficult to dissolve the ego, almost impossible.

  Rajneesh

  Strong, Attitude, Ego

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• It is impossible to ignore a highly important factor of the chess struggle - psychology.

  Yuri Averbakh

  Struggle, Psychology, Important

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• Think the unthinkable,
  Imagine the impossible
  Pursue the imaginations limits.

  Allan Weisbecker

  Dream, Thinking, Imagination

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• About Thomas Hobbes: He was 40 years old before he looked on geometry; which happened accidentally. Being in a gentleman's library, Euclid's Elements lay open, and "twas the 47 El. libri I" [Pythagoras' Theorem]. He read the proposition "By God", sayd he, "this is impossible:" So he reads the demonstration of it, which referred him back to such a proposition; which proposition he read. That referred him back to another, which he also read. Et sic deinceps, that at last he was demonstratively convinced of that truth. This made him in love with geometry.

  John Aubrey

  Love, Truth, Years

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• He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

  Theodor Reik

  Love, Healing, Goal

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• It's impossible for me to feel like there's only one way to do a thing. There's nothing wrong with having one way of doing it, but I think it's a bad habit. I believe in range. Like, there's a lot of tunes that I play all the time-sometimes I hear 'em in a different register. And if you don't have complete freedom, or you won't let yourself get away from that one straight line, oh, my goodness, that's too horrible to even think about.

  Wes Montgomery

  Believe, Thinking, Play

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• It is easy to fool yourself. It is possible to fool the people you work for. It is more difficult to fool the people you work with. But it is almost impossible to fool the people who work under you.

  Harry Bates Thayer

  Leadership, People, Fool

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• It is impossible to produce superior performance unless you do something very different.

  John Templeton

  Leadership, Different, Engagement

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• There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.

  Antonio Tabucchi

  Fundamentals, Values

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• The foundation of our belief is a basis of fact - the fact of the birth, ministry, miracles, death, resurrection by the Evangelists as having actually occurred, within their own personal knowledge it was therefore impossible that they could have persisted in affirming the truths they have narrated, had not Jesus actually rose from the dead, and had they not known this fact as certainly as they knew any other fact.

  Simon Greenleaf

  Jesus, Personal Knowledge, Rose

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• Why be an average person? All the great achievements of history have been made by strong individuals who refused to consult statistics or to listen to those who could prove convincingly that what they wanted to do, and in fact ultimately did do, was completely impossible.

  Eric Butterworth

  Strong, Average, Achievement

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• Yet it was impossible for me to say to people, 'Speak louder, shout, for I am deaf.' Ah, how could I possibly admit an infirmity in the one sense which ought to be more perfect in me than others, a sense which I once possessed in the highest perfection, a perfection such as few in my profession enjoy or ever have enjoyed.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Loss, People, Perfect

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• The final phone call that said we're going to be picked up again was just a miracle. We've overcome the impossible and we're still pushing forward. I know John is smiling and so happy that he gets to watch us on TV.

  Kaley Cuoco

  Smile, Phones, Miracle

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• Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to it himself.

  A. H. Weiler

  Men, Sloth, Laziness

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• Go ahead, do something impossible.

  Seth Godin

  Greatness

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