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Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable. -- Edward Thorndike
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible. -- Philip Stanhope
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. -- Vince Lombardi
I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government. -- Yitzhak Rabin
You don't even wish for the success that I had, because you don't think it's attainable. -- Tom DeLonge
I think all good reporting is the same thing - the best attainable version of the truth. -- Carl Bernstein
For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God. -- Lionel Blue
The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope. -- John Buchan
Wherever I go, I bring the culture with me, so that they can understand that it's attainable. I didn't do it any other way than through hip-hop. -- Jay-Z
It's hard for me to stay silent when I keep hearing that peace is only attainable through war. There's nothing more scary than watching ignorance in action. -- Tom Smothers
Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story. I doubt that thematic closure is never attainable. -- Gene Wolfe
I was only in college, unfortunately, for, um, a year. I think my major was public relations, and I had no idea what it meant except it seemed maybe attainable. -- James L. Brooks
Just one step. Just one mile. Just one dollar. Just one kiss. Just one person. When we look at life through the lens of 'one,' everything becomes that much more attainable. -- Mick Ebeling
I think objectivity is like this strange myth that people think you're supposed to achieve, but actually, the dirty little secret is that it's not attainable any more than pure justice is attainable by the courts. -- Sebastian Junger
If we can soften our hearts, and if we can access the pure and simple aspect of our nature, then we can regain the realization that everything we need is already inside us and anything is attainable. -- Yehuda Berg
The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal. -- Aleister Crowley
Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint. -- Garry Trudeau
The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other. -- Sigmund Freud
Great dad. Yeah, he would ask me for money on birthdays and, you know, inappropriate times. And I just wrote him off like, 'You're not a father.' I just learned you cannot emotionally invest in people who are not attainable. -- Drew Barrymore
Glamour is an imaginative process that creates a specific emotional response: a sharp mixture of projection, longing, admiration, and aspiration. It evokes an audience's hopes and dreams and makes them seem attainable, all the while maintaining enough distance to sustain the fantasy. -- Virginia Postrel
Creativity is the key for any child with dyslexia - or for anyone, for that matter. Then you can think outside of the box. Teach them anything is attainable. Let them run with what you see is whatever they need to run with. -- Orlando Bloom
Clearly, some creative thinking is badly needed if humans are to have a future beyond Earth. Returning to the Moon may be worthy and attainable, but it fails to capture the public's imagination. What does get people excited is the prospect of a mission to Mars. -- Paul Davies
You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them. -- Rafael Palmeiro
The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us to see the world afresh; and the revered sage who shows us depths of insight attainable only through a lifetime of hard-won experience. -- Martin Filler
I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation. -- Siegfried Sassoon
When I started out in the industry I was 14 and a beanpole, but over the last few years I've grown. For the most part I feel pretty OK with how I look. I know I'm different from the typical Hollywood ideal of what is beautiful. But quite frankly I don't think that's attainable, and I'm happy to represent something different. -- Mandy Moore
Make greatness attainable by all. -- John Wooden
May God .. let me strive for attainable things. -- Pindar
Unconditional love, is love, regardless anything; attainable or impossible. -- Anthony Liccione
With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable -- Thomas Fowell Buxton
I believe that being a successful rapper is probably attainable. -- Jon Connor
God is inexhaustibly attainable in the totality of our action. -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Things divine are not attainable by mortals who understand sensual things. -- Zoroaster
Believe in the doctrine of perfect sanctification attainable in this life. -- Adoniram Judson
The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal. -- Aleister Crowley
Equality is attainable as long as you are part of the majority. -- William James
Joy is one part inner peace, one part giddy delight and 100% attainable. -- Oprah Winfrey
The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless. -- Leo Tolstoy
The more specifically you define your goals the more attainable they become. -- Chris Matakas
If wisdom be attainable, let us not only win but enjoy it. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
National transformation is also attainable through the simple principle of Truth and Honesty -- Sunday Adelaja
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. -- Vince Lombardi
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible. -- Philip Stanhope
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible. -- Philip Stanhope
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence -- Vince Lombardi Jr.
Goals should be realistic, attainable, and shared among all members of the team -- Mike Krzyzewski
Elections are when you have to make a choice. Perfection not often attainable! -- Rupert Murdoch
Greatness is not attainable, but in the pursuit of it, you can achieve excellence. -- Vince Lombardi
I like to take things incrementally, and strive for something that feels more attainable. -- Carrie Brownstein
I have no idea if world peace is attainable. But aiming for it is. -- Stockard Channing
In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable. -- Heinrich Heine
I think it's important for the viewers at home to have something accessible and attainable. -- Eric Daman
Economic and financial conversion is actually attainable, thanks to this principle of truth and honesty. -- Sunday Adelaja
Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable â?? the art of the next best -- Otto von Bismarck
Mutual, respectful, enduring love is completely attainable as long as you swear you won't settle for less. -- Maggie Stiefvater
No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance. -- Samuel Johnson
The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion. -- George Bernard Shaw
Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Never stop just because you feel defeated. The journey to the other side is attainable only after great suffering. -- Santosh Kalwar
Always remember... Perfection is not attainable, but if you chase perfection you can catch excellence and beyond. Be fearless... -- Ziad K. Abdelnour
Learn the difference between striving for excellence and striving for perfection. The first is attainable; the second is not. -- Douglas Merrill
In Labor movements generally, success through violence can hardly be expected except in circumstances where success without violence is attainable. -- Bertrand Russell
Present opportunities are neglected, and attainable good is slighted, by minds busied in extensive ranges and intent upon future advantages. -- Samuel Johnson
Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable. -- Bernard Berenson
There's a fearful term that's in fashion at the moment - closure. People apparently believe it is desirable and attainable. -- Penelope Lively
Generally, a desirable, practically attainable idea, suggested in prophecy, has a chance of forcing itself into reality by its very existence. -- John W. Campbell
The small share of happiness attainable by man exists only insofar as he is able to cease to think of himself. -- Theodor Reik
It is proved by surveys that happiness does not come from love, wealth, or power but the pursuit of attainable goals. -- Helen Fielding
Unleash your potential. Seek the opportunity to make a difference. Success is attainable. You just have to reach out and grab it. -- Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Where absolute superiority is not attainable, you must produce a relative one at the decisive point by making skillful use ofwhat you have. -- Carl von Clausewitz
My God grant me love for that which has splendor, but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things. -- Pindar
The religion of Big Data sets itself the goal of fulfilling man's unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignores her attainable needs. -- Ludwig Feuerbach
Even when you're feeling dejected, don't avoid the problem, confront it. That way you'll eventually realize that your dreams are in fact attainable. -- Yunho
It is steady, reliable, tough. It never yields to panic. It is never defeated one-sidedly. It achieves everything attainable by character and tenacity. -- Henry A. Kissinger
Nourishing yourself in a way that helps you blossom in the direction you want to go is attainable, and you are worth the effort. -- Deborah Day
My look is attainable. Women can look like Audrey Hepburn by flipping out their hair, buying the large sunglasses, and the little sleeveless dresses. -- Audrey Hepburn
If you don't want your followers to give up in disgust, your inspiration needs to be in the service of goals that are at least attainable. -- Kevin Drum
I don't reckon there are many writers who start out really expecting writing to be an attainable occupation. Well, I didn't. It was a pipe dream. -- Sarah Hall
Impatience is a hindrance. As with all things if you attempt to take shortcuts, the final destination will rarely be as good and may even be attainable. -- Chris Bradford
The good lawgiver should inquire how states and races of men and communities may participate in a good life, and in the happiness which is attainable by them. -- Aristotle
Anyone who believes a growth rate in excess of 15% per annum over the long term is attainable should pursue a career in sales, but avoid one in mathematics. -- Warren Buffett
I talk about my daily dozen in the book [ Today Matters]. Twelve things that are certainly attainable by any of us that we need to manage every day. -- John C. Maxwell
So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own idea, describes his unattained but attainable self. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hold a doctrine, to which I owe not much, indeed, but all the little I ever had, namely, that with ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable. -- Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet
The more a human being feels himself a self, tries to intensify this self and reach a never-attainable perfection, the more drastically he steps out of the center of being. -- Eugen Herrigel
Where God's presence is no longer a tenable proposition and where his absence is no longer a felt, indeed overwhelming weight, certain dimensions of thought and creativity are no longer attainable. -- Rudolf Steiner
World federalists hold before us the vision of a unified mankind living in peace under a just world order... The heart of their program-a world under law- is realistic and attainable. -- U Thant
People's wants are not fixed; they generally want what others in their chosen comparison class appear to be enjoying and what advertising presents to them as attainable for them and as bringing happiness. -- Catherine Wilson
Memory was such a worthless thing, really. Nothing it dealt with was attainable. It was concerned with phantom acts and feelings, with all that was uncapturable except in thought. It was without satisfaction. -- Richard Matheson
In dealing with Syria's dictator...only force counts. No cease-fire was attainable in Lebanon until the 16-inch guns of the battleship New Jersey started shelling Syria's proxies; suddenly, sweet reason prevailed in Damascus. -- William Safire
I was taught that everything is attainable if you are prepared to give up, to sacrifice, to get it. Whatever you want to do, you can do it, if you want it badly enough . . . -- Stirling Moss
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it. -- Samuel Johnson
The object, Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement of the heart, are, although attainable, to a certain extent, in poetry, far more readily attainable in prose. -- Edgar Allan Poe
You have to set goals that are almost out of reach. If you set a goal that is attainable without much work or thought, you are stuck with something below your true talent and potential. -- Steve Garvey
I'm not promoting anything totally unhealthy because I'm not unhealthy. But I am promoting an ideal that's not attainable, and for that I have to feel guilty. I have to assume some blame for that. -- Cameron Russell
Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious to be accepted for what they altimately are as revealed in their poetry. -- Stephen Spender
The idea of infinity cannot be expressed in words or even described, but it can be apprehended through art, which makes infinity tangible. The absolute is only attainable through faith and in the creative act. -- Andrei Tarkovsky
Victory is the thought transformation resulting from comprehending that physical immortality...perpetual longevity, sans illness and aging...eternal, healthy, youthful life in your living flesh... is not a fantasy, but a practical and attainable possibility. -- Linda Goodman

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