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“Accommodation of mental structures to reality implies the existence of assimilatory schemata apart from which any structure would be impossible.”

Reality Would Be Existence Impossible Structure Accommodations

Book:The Construction of Reality in the Child

Source: The Construction of Reality in the Child

“A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love.”

Thinking Humans Energy Impossible Possibility Saint

Book:Beautiful Losers

Source: Beautiful Losers

“It is impossible to maintain civilization with 12-year-olds having babies, with 15-year-olds killing each other, with 17-year-olds dying of AIDS and with 18-year-olds getting diplomas they can't even read.”

Years Impossible Dying Baby Civilization Killing Aids Having A Baby Diploma Killing Each Other

Author:Newt Gingrich

“It is impossible to understand the history of economic thought if one does not pay attention to the fact that economics as such is a challenge to the conceit of those in power.”

Ifs Doe Facts Challenges Pay Attention Impossible Economic Economics Pay Attention Conceit

Book:Human Action

Source: Human Action

“It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meaning the actor sees in the stimulus as well as in the end his response is aiming at.”

Ifs Humans Wells Doe Ends Action Actors Impossible Response Stimulus Human Actions

Book:The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method

Source: The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method

“The writing itself is no big deal. The editing, and even more than that, the self-doubt, is excruciatingly impossible.”

Writing Self Bigs Deals Doubt Impossible Editing Big Deal Self-doubt

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“Art must be unaesthetic in the extreme, useless and impossible to justify.”

Art Impossible Extremes Useless Justify

Author:Francis Picabia

“Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she, instead of fewer.”

Want Mean Mistake Impossible Simplicity Fewer Reduction

Book:Paul Klee

Source: Paul Klee

“It is impossible that anything will be well understood or well done that is taken into a reluctant understanding, and executed with a servile hand.”

Wells Done Hands Understanding Taken Impossible Understood Reluctant Well Done

Book:The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

“Perhaps the importance that we must attach to the achievement of an artist or a group of artists may properly be measured by the answer to the following question: Have they so wrought that it will be impossible henceforth, for those who follow, ever again to act as if they had not existed?”

Ifs May Artist Answers Impossible Groups Achievement Importance Following

Book:Walter Sickert: The Complete Writings on Art

Source: Walter Sickert: The Complete Writings on Art

“All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is impossible.”

Real Impossible Program Errors

Book:The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to Help You Cope with Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape, and Attacks by Inanimate Objects

Source: The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to Help You Cope with Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape, and Attacks by Inanimate Objects

“I know that it is impossible to talk about my work. And since it's impossible for me or anybody else to talk about my work, I feel I might as well talk about it.”

Knows Feels Wells Might Impossible

Book:Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews

Source: Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews

“My expectations-which I extended whenever I came close to accomplishing my goals-made it impossible ever to feel satisfied with my success.”

Feels Made Goal Impossible Expectations Satisfied Made It

Author:Ellyn Stern

“Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong. Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention. The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.”

Littles Difficult Lines Impossible Invention Retreat Wretched Little Time

Author:Fridtjof Nansen

“Shock is shock. Your body goes into shock, regardless of it being real blood or fake blood. The mind sends powerful messages to all the various glands and secretions in the body. It's impossible trying to act it; it just happens. It's a very important question: no acting.”

Trying Mind Important Real Body Happens Powerful Acting Impossible Blood Messages Various Your Body Fake Shock Being Real Important Questions Glands

Author:Ben Kingsley

“For 'tis impossible Hate to return with love.”

Love Hate Impossible Return

Book:Tragedies

Source: Tragedies

“You need language for thought, and you need language to anticipate death. There is no abstract thought without language and no anticipation. I think the anticipation of death without language would be impossible.”

Thinking Needs Would Be Language Impossible Abstract Anticipation Anticipate

Author:David Cronenberg

“We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction ''If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.”

Ifs Faces Next Impossible Generations Century Add Ecology Impossibility Solemn Unthinkable Petra

Book:Nonviolence Speaks to Power

Source: Nonviolence Speaks to Power

“Commitment to a set of rules frees your play to attain a profundity and vigor otherwise impossible.”

Play Impossible Commitment Vigor Profundity

Book:Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

Source: Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

“We have been impossible right from the beginning and we must continue to be impossible because we are raising a voice against suffering which has been considered to be the nature of life. It is our joy to be considered impossible - and it is our greater joy to make the impossible a living reality.”

Has Beens Reality Joy Suffering Voice Greater Impossible Living Reality

Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“It is impossible, maybe undesirable, to take partisanship out of the political process.”

Political Process Impossible Impossibility Partisanship Undesirable

Author:David Souter

“It seemed like an impossible task to do full justice to all Luther classics. And yet these landmark artists have done just that. Memorable performances of wonderful songs that ensure Luther's legacy will live on forever.”

Done Artist Song Justice Forever Wonderful Impossible Tasks Performances Legacy Memorable Impossibility Luther Landmarks

Author:Clive Davis

“I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.”

Jobs Used Impossible Week Streets New York Grew Grew Up Waitress Allowance

Author:Lady Gaga

“It is simply impossible to control a large painting with the edge in the same way that you can control a small one.”

Way Impossible Painting Edges

Author:Howard Hodgkin

“We have an anti-choice president, an anti-choice House and Senate. They might pass a national ban. It's already virtually impossible for people in some areas to get an abortion.”

People Might Choices House President Impossible Areas Abortion Senate Bans

Author:Nancy Keenan

“I've always regretted that I'm made of contradictions. But, if contradiction is impossible to overcome, we have to accept both its ends.”

Ifs Made Ends Accepting Impossible Overcoming Contradiction Impossibility

Author:Czeslaw Milosz

“Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things.”

Giving Powerful Nice Impossible Produce Vocabulary Nice Things

Author:John Charles Polanyi

“Differences in approaches do exist, and in one short moment it is impossible to overcome all of them, but i'm convinced ahead of us we have a constructive dialogue.”

Moments Differences Impossible Approach Overcoming Convinced Dialogue Impossibility Constructive

Author:Vladimir Putin

“It's impossible for us to forecast what's going to happen ten years from now and make a decision today to say what we're going to do.”

Years Happens Today Decision Impossible Ten Impossibility Forecasts

Author:Charles Rangel

“The distance separating the statute and constitutionality is so abysmal that negotiations are impossible.”

Impossible Distance Negotiation Impossibility Separating Statutes

Author:Mariano Rajoy

“I think it would be nearly impossible to find someone who has contributed more to South Carolina than Carroll Campbell. His efforts to transform South Carolina's economy and raise our state's income levels are still paying dividends today.”

Thinking Stills States Would Be Today Levels Effort Economy Impossible Raises South Income Impossibility Carolina Dividends South Carolina

Author:Mark Sanford

“Ideals are very often formed in the effort to escape from the hard task of dealing with facts, which is the function of science and art. There is no process by which to reach an ideal. There are no tests by which to verify it. It is therefore impossible to frame a proposition about an ideal which can be proved or disproved. It follows that the use of ideals is to be strictly limited to proper cases, and that the attempt to use ideals in social discussion does not deserve serious consideration.”

Source: Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals

“I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility.”

Found Responsibility Impossible Burden Heavy Royalty Discharge Heavy Burdens Burden Of Responsibility

Author:King Edward VIII

“In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination.”

Humans Passion Individual Imagination Creative Rights Impossible Independent Human Rights Tyranny Pretence Individual Freedom

Author:Ai Weiwei

“With the exception of weapons of mass destruction, there is no other type of attack that is more effective than suicide terrorism. The perception is that it's impossible to guard against.”

Impossible Type Perception Weapons Mass Destruction Suicide Terrorism Exception Weapons Of Mass Destruction Mass Destruction

Author:Bruce Hoffman

“Because of their very nature, science and logical thinking can never decide what is possible or impossible. Their only function is to explain what has been ascertained by experience and observation.”

Thinking Has Beens Impossible Function Observation Logical Logical Thinking

Book:Cosmic Memory

Source: Cosmic Memory

“For the believer, nothing is impossible. We put limitations on ourselves.”

Impossible Believer Limitation Impossibility Nothing Is Impossible

Author:Sasha Azevedo

“The words are very distinctly formed; but by the bodily ear they are not heard. They are, however, much more clearly understood than they would be if they were heard by the ear. It is impossible not to understand them, whatever resistance we may offer... There is no escape, for in spite of ourselves we must listen...”

Ifs May Would Be Impossible Heard Listening Offers Understood Ears Resistance Spite

Author:Teresa of Avila

“If you want to make a substantial reduction in your carbon footprint, doing it on your own is virtually impossible, especially if you're driving a car. Here are tools available in the marketplace, enabling our customers to have this conversation.”

Ifs Want Impossible Car Conversation Tools Available Customers Driving Carbon Impossibility Marketplace Reduction Footprint Enabling Carbon Footprint

Author:Tom Arnold

“We tried to talk about [the Owls' zone], but it's hard to replicate it. It's nearly impossible to penetrate that zone. What you do get are open outside shots. You're going to have to make some of them.”

Hard Impossible Shots Zone Impossibility Penetrate Owl Replicate

Author:Chris Mooney

“Many of the old masters of watercolour painted from notes, with enthusiasm either unabated or renewed. It is hard to assume the same degree of concentration in the studio, but not impossible.”

Hard Impossible Masters Degrees Assuming Notes Studios Enthusiasm Concentration

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“The green is so narrow that if you over-club, you've got an impossible bunker shot. If you're short, you're pretty much dead.”

Ifs Impossible Shots Green Clubs Impossibility Bunkers You Re Pretty

Author:Vijay Singh

“I tried to do the impossible on paper -- beat the middleweight champ coming up from 130 pounds.”

Impossible Paper Beats Pounds Impossibility

Author:Oscar De La Hoya

“As far as co-operation with The Hague is concerned it's impossible (to arrest Milosevic) by March 31 without an agreement on the federal level despite the consequences such a move could have.”

Moving Levels Impossible Consequence Concerned Despite Operations Agreement March Impossibility

Author:Zoran ?in?ic

“The difference is that with fame comes a spotlight, one which has recently made it impossible to ignore the fact that more and more of those folks we place on pedestals aren't even pausing to consider an option other than lying.”

Made Facts Lying Differences Impossible Fame Folks Made It Spotlight Pedestal Pausing

Author:Michael Musto

“Impossible is just an opinion, nothing else!”

Opinion Impossible Impossibility

Author:Vikas Khanna

“From now on, nothing is impossible for Israel, which is a normal country like any other. We won't wait another half a century to sit on the Security Council.”

Country Waiting Half Impossible Century Security Normal Israel Impossibility Council Nothing Is Impossible Security Council Half A Century

Author:Dan Gillerman

“It would be stupid of me to rule out ever being the leader because that's an impossible thing to rule out. I can't predict future events.”

I Can Would Be Leader Impossible Events Stupid Impossibility Impossible Things Future Events

Author:John Key

“Although sometimes I know it seems impossible, there ain't no need in drowning in your sorrow. If things are as bad as they can be, you can be sure there'll be a brighter tomorrow.”

Ifs Knows Needs Sometimes Seems Impossible Tomorrow Sorrow Be You Impossibility Drowning Brighter Brighter Tomorrow

Author:Shaggy

“Our trip to Moscow opens new prospects for peace in the Middle East. Our people want simple things: to be free and to have sovereignty. All this is impossible without an end to the occupation.”

People Want Ends Simple Impossible Middle East Occupation Middle East Sovereignty Simple Things Prospects Moscow

Author:Khaled Mashal