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Choose to achieve perfection. We won't achieve it because perfection is impossible. But by pursuing perfection, we will achieve excellence.
It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
When it comes to words I have a uniqueness that I find almost impossible in art – and it's my words that actually make my art quite unique.
Immortality may be impossible, but imagine what humanity could learn if we all lived 700 years. We could travel deep into utopia and beyond.
I just keep getting inspired to believe that dreams come true and anything can happen, 'cause I've watched so many impossible things happen.
God put enough into the world to make faith in Him a reasonable thing. But He left enough out to make it impossible to live by reason alone.
Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
It is impossible for men by their own strength and natural ability to become Christians, but it is possible for God to make them Christians.
Without the presence of the Spirit, it is impossible to comprehend our personal mission or to have the reassurance that our course is right.
We expect to receive again our own bodies, though they be dead and cast into the earth, for we maintain that with God nothing is impossible.
Don't waste even a minute magnifying your perceived inadequacies. You can't do it all. Why berate yourself for not achieving the impossible?
I think it can be quite impossible to think well of yourself, so I prefer not to think about that too much. But I am very pleased, obviously.
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.
It wasn't that [he] believed in religion, or a God, or an afterlife. He just knew it was impossible to feel this much love and for it to end.
The South African native is probably the one impossible person to train in the entire world; he is probably impossible by any human standard.
I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
It is almost impossible for the poetess, once laurelled, to take off the crown for good or to reject values and taste of those who tender it.
Our beliefs are like the unquestioned commands, telling us how things are, what's possible and what's impossible, what we can and can not do.
What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it.
For a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable.
Man is so inconsistent a creature that it is impossible to reason from his beliefs to his conduct, or from one part of his belief to another.
To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.
We're special because dreams that are impossible anywhere else, come true here. That's not just my story. That's your story. That's our story.
It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.
So in all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another emerging.
It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.
Loving your neighbour as much as yourself is practically bloody impossible? You might as well have a commandment that states,'Thou shalt fly'.
It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.
We feel very celebratory and positive that we have created a voyage across the DMZ in peace and reconciliation that was said to be impossible.
It would be really easy to write off the Dawn Wall as impossible. In terms of climbing technique, I'm learning a new language on this granite.
Comfort and familiarity were wonderful but they also dulled passion and excitement. Predictability and habit made surprises almost impossible.
As Tony [Blair] said in his book, Gordon [Brown] was brilliant and impossible. If he'd just been one of those things, the options are obvious.
The problem with wanting the tax code to be 'simpler, fairer,' and 'pro-growth' is that it's impossible to achieve all three at the same time.
Each time we consider a miracle impossible, or assume that we ourselves are not capable of working it, then we're choosing not to take flight.
It's almost impossible that an argument would naturally form the kind of arch that it does in 'Lifespan'. So, the conversation is constructed.
Whatever it is about pictures, photographs, it's just about impossible to follow up with words. They don't have anything to do with each other.
Magic is always impossible.... It begins with the impossible and ends with the impossible and is impossible in between. That is why it's magic.
We live in an information economy. The problem is that information's usually impossible to get, at least in the right place, at the right time.
And eternity is a long time. So if you have to spend it with someone I could see wanting to spend it with someone impossible...but interesting.
The shamanic realm is to get you out of the word set. For skeptics, that's impossible, and they just can't see that and it just makes no sense.
You have companies over in different countries where they devalue their currency and they make it impossible for American companies to compete.
It is impossible to advance new theories... when you are under the influence of a particular view, or under the pressure of a particular dogma.
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
I always feel like I'm missing out on something, that someone is having more fun than I am, so I take measures to make sure that is impossible.
Who would have thought it would be possible to run across Canada on one leg, eh? I wanted to try the impossible and show that it could be done.
I wouldn't say anything is impossible. I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and put the work and time into it.
It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.
Sometimes, players find it impossible to see the bigger picture after games for the simple reason that we are the ones who have actually played.
All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people.