Impossible Quotes - Page 22

• Comparing how you feel on the inside (bad) to the way someone else looks on the outside (great) is a losing proposition. It's an impossible standard.

  Maria Shriver

  Looks, How You Feel, Way

  Maria Shriver (2000). “Ten Things I Wish I'd Known: Before I Went Out Into the Real World”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• In life when we feel we have reached a limit, that is when the true battle begins. Just when you despair and think it is impossible to go any further, will you become apathetic, or will you say it's not over and stand up with an unyielding spirit? The battle is decided by this single determination.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Determination, Thinking, Despair

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• It's impossible to have a coin with only one side. You can't have heads without tails. Innovation is like that. Initiative is like that. Art is like that.
  You can't have success unless you're prepared to have failure.
  As soon as you say, 'failure is not an option,' you've just said, 'innovation is not an option.'

  Seth Godin

  Art, Innovation, Tails

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• The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.

  Salman Rushdie

  Ideas, Criticism, Moments

  "Salman Rushdie: Do we have to fight the battle for the Enlightenment all over again?" by Salman Rushdie, www.independent.co.uk. January 22, 2005.

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• Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Lying, Challenges, Magic

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• Most of us can easily do two things at once; what's all but impossible is to do one thing at once.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Two, Effort, One Thing

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• Like any art, the creation of self is both natural and seemingly impossible. It requires training as well as magic.

  Holly Near

  Art, Self, Magic

  Holly Near, Derk Richardson (1990). “Fire in the Rain- Singer in the Storm: An Autobiography”, William Morrow & Company

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• You will never maximize your potential in any area without coaching. It is impossible. You may be good. You may even be better than everyone else. But without outside input you will never be as good as you could be.

  Andy Stanley

  Coaching, May, Input

  Andy Stanley (2011). “Next Generation Leader”, p.107, Multnomah

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• Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow... the creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible.

  Aldo Leopold

  Wilderness, Creation, Resources

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.234, Library of America

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• What more could you ask for in life than to be given an impossible challenge?

  Cory Booker

  Challenges, Given, Asks

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• I begin by imagining the impossible and end by accomplishing the impossible.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Ends, Visualization

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• Security is elusive. It's impossible. We all die. We all get old. We all get sick. People leave us. People change us. Nothing is secure.

  Eve Ensler

  Motivation, Inspiration, People

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• My experience from 20 years of Africa is that the seemingly impossible is possible.

  Hans Rosling

  Motivation, Inspiration, Years

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• Improvisation is empowering because it welcomes the unknown. And since what's impossible is always unknown, it allows me to believe I can cheat the impossible.

  Philippe Petit

  Motivation, Believe, Inspiration

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• When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible. Nevertheless, no one doubts that we are confronted with a causal connection whose causal components are in the main known to us. Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

  Albert Einstein

  Thinking, Order, Play

  Albert Einstein (2000). “Albert Einstein in his own words in two complete books: Relativity-the special and general theory; Out of my later years-the scientist, philosopher and man portrayed through his own words”

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• I wanted impossible things. I wanted my life with her before it all turned bad. What I had been given had been taken away and now I was even less than before.

  Philip O Ceallaigh

  Broken Heart, Taken, Impossible Things

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• Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw. The second you meet someone that you're going to fall in love with you deliberately become a moron. You do this in order to fall in love, because it would be impossible to fall in love with any human being if you actually saw them for what they are.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Broken Heart, Falling In Love, Love You

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• People who confuse what they wish were true with what is really true create distorted pictures of reality that make it impossible for them to make the best choices.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Reality, People

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• Many countries today have begun the transition from an industrial wealth system and civilization to a knowledge-based system - without appreciating that a new wealth system is impossible without a corresponding new way of life.

  Alvin Toffler

  Country, Civilization, Appreciate

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• Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Teacher, Book, Sea

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• You have to raise the bar. Give yourself a challenge. Ask yourself, 'How can one make the impossible materialise?'

  Tim Walker

  Giving, Challenges, Bars

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• To say anything about women and men without marking oneself as either feminist or anti-feminist, male-basher or apologist for men seems as impossible for a woman as trying to get dressed in the morning without inviting interpretations of her character. Sitting at the conference table musing on these matters, I felt sad to think that we women didn't have the freedom to be unmarked that the men sitting next to us had. Some days you just want to get dressed and go about your business. But if you're a woman, you can't, because there is no unmarked woman.

  Deborah Tannen

  Morning, Character, Men

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• The peoples are not awake...[There are dangers] which will render a world organization impossible.
  I foresee the renewal of...the secret bargaining behind closed doors. Peoples will be as before,
  the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds.
  International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries,
  established by the peoples and for the peoples.

  Henri La Fontaine

  Country, Sheep, Doors

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• So long as peace is not attained by law (so argue the advocates of armaments) the military protection of a country must not be undermined, and until such is the case disarmament is impossible.

  Ludwig Quidde

  Country, Military, Law

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• The way I see it, the impossible happens all the time; but we're so good at taking it for granted, we forget it was once impossible.

  Neal Shusterman

  Way, Forget, Granted

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