“However depressed I may be I am not in the habit of giving up a project without having tried everything, even the 'impossible', to gain my end.” GivingMayEndsImpossibleHabitGiving UpProjectsGainsDetermination Book:Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal Source: Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal
“The great difficulty with large canvases is that they should by right be painted as fast as a sketch. By speed only can you gain an appearance of fleeting effect. But to paint a three yard canvas with the same dispatch as one of ten inches is well-nigh impossible.” ShouldWellsThreeImpossibleEffectsTenGainsDifficultyPaintAppearanceSpeedInchesCanvasYardsFleeting Author:Joaquin Sorolla
“The emotional aspects of a wilderness experience might be compared to a religious experience. It is particularly valuable for those people whose unconscious associations of pain and discomfort in relationships to man render a deity in human form impossible. Christianity is unacceptable to some people because of the use of the human symbol, but some who can't accept Christ can gain a tremendous sense of peace from relating to uncontaminated areas.” PeopleMenHumansUseMightPainFormChristReligiousAcceptingChristianityEnvironmentImpossibleEmotionalGainsAreasAspectValuableSymbolsUnconsciousWildernessAssociationDeitiesDiscomfortReligious ExperienceHuman Form Author:Donald Glover
“We must always be aware of the fact that the body, soul and mind are to be trained simultaneously, for otherwise it would be impossible to gain and maintain the magic equipoise.” MindSoulFactsBodyWould BeImpossibleMagicGainsMysticism Author:Franz Bardon
“It is almost intrinsically impossible for ideas about how we are fooling ourselves to gain an adequate hearing. We are good enough at it to keep them nicely at bay.” IdeasEnoughImpossibleGainsHearingGood EnoughAdequateFooling Ourselves Book:The tangled wing: biological constraints on the human spirit Source: The tangled wing: biological constraints on the human spirit
“In the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work. Perhaps, then you might gain that great tranquility that comes from knowing that you've had a hand in creating something of intrinsic excellence that makes a contribution. Indeed, you might even gain that deepest of all satisfactions: knowing that your short time on this earth has been well spent, and that it mattered.” WellsHas BeensEndsHandsMightEarthDifficultKnowingImpossibleCreatingGainsExcellenceSatisfactionMeaningfulContributionTranquilityMeaningful LifeShort TimeCreating SomethingMeaningful WorkGood To Great Author:James C. Collins
“Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.” MindBelieveMadeMistakeWorryImpossibleMankindCenturyChangedDevelopmentSixGainsAccomplishImprovementCrushNeglectPreferenceAttemptingRefinementInsistingBelivePersonal GainRoman Philosophers Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero
“I have never been loved enough to gain the desire of reproducing a being in the image of my lover and I have never been given enough pleasure so that my brain has not had the leisure to seek better...I have wanted the impossible.” EnoughWantedDesireGivenPleasureBrainImpossibleLoversGainsLustLeisureMy LoverReproducing Author:Rachilde
“It's not like you take the right turning and you get everlasting happiness and you take the wrong one and your life's a disaster. In real life it's often impossible to tell which decision is the one you should make because what you stand to gain and what you stand to lose are sometimes-often-neck and neck.” ShouldRealSometimesLosesDecisionImpossibleLike YouGainsDisasterReal LifeNecksEverlasting Author:Marian Keyes