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“Most of our troubles are due to poor implementation….wrong priorities and unattainable targets”

Poor Trouble Dues Priorities Target Unattainable Implementation

“I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective.”

“In the desert I had found a freedom unattainable in civilization; a life unhampered by possessions, since everything that was not a necessity was an encumbrance. I had found too, a comradeship inherent in the circumstances, and the belief that tranquility was to be found there.”

Found Belief Circumstances Civilization Possession Desert Inherent Tranquility Unattainable Comradeship

Book:Arabian Sands

Source: Arabian Sands

“When you're obsessive, like me, searching for something unattainable can become unhealthy ... it's like falling through the air and grabbing at the clouds.”

Fall Air Clouds Like Me Unhealthy Obsessive Unattainable Grabbing

Author:Jonny Wilkinson

“True perfection is unattainable, but if you chase perfection you will catch excellence!”

Ifs Perfection Excellence Unattainable

Author:Vince Lombardi

“Don't aim for perfect. Aim for complete. Perfection is an unattainable illusion.”

Perfect Illusion Perfection Aim Unattainable

Book:Love Anthony

Source: Love Anthony

“I decided a long time ago I would feed on the vultures until a dove came along. A pigeon. The kind of soul that didn't impede on anyone; just walked around worrying about its own business, trying to get through life without pulling everyone else down. With its own needs and selfish habits. Brave. A communicator. Intelligent. Beautiful. Soft-spoken. A creature that mates for life. Unattainable until she has a reason to trust you.”

Source: Walking Disaster Signed Limited Edition: A Novel

“Whatever the challenge was, however unattainable the goal may have seemed, I never let anyone talk me out of believing in myself.”

Believe May Goal Challenges Unattainable

Author:Muhammad Ali

“The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.”

Innocence Cherish Unattainable

Book:The critical point, on literature and culture

Source: The critical point, on literature and culture

“Holiness is not some lofty experience, unattainable except to those who can leap the stars, but it is rather a lowly experience, which lowly people in the lowly walks of life can share with Jesus, by letting His mind be in them.”

People Life Mind Christian Jesus Stars Walks Christianity Share Experience Holiness Exception Leap Lofty Unattainable Walks Of Life Lowliness

Author:Samuel Logan Brengle

“Recent presidents have gone off on ad hoc adventures. They have set unattainable goal because they have framed the issue incorrectly, as they believed their own rhetoric.”

Goal President Gone Issues Adventure Ads Rhetoric Framed Unattainable

Book:The Next Decade: Where We've Been . . . and Where We're Going

Source: The Next Decade: Where We've Been . . . and Where We're Going

“The vision that God gives is not some unattainable castle in the sky, but a vision of what God wants you to be down here.”

Want Giving Vision Sky Castles Unattainable Castles In The Sky

Book:My Utmost for His Highest

Source: My Utmost for His Highest

“An act of meditation is actually an act of faith--of faith in your spirit, in your own potential. Faith is the basis of meditation. Not of faith in something outside you--a metaphysical buddha, an unattainable ideal, or someone else's words. The faith is in yourself, in your own 'buddha nature.' You too can be a buddha, an awakened being that lives and responds in a wise, creative, and compassionate way.”

Way Spirit Faith Creative Wise Meditation Ideals Bases Compassionate Metaphysical Awakened Unattainable Buddha Nature

Author:Martine Batchelor

“The combination of creative energies and the need to perform at the highest level to keep up with peers leads to an otherwise unattainable commitment to excellence.”

Needs Energy Levels Creative Highest Commitment Excellence Combination Peers Unattainable Creative Energy Commitment To Excellence

Book:The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

Source: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“Long ago man formed an ideal conception of omnipotence and omniscience which he embodied in his gods. Whatever seemed unattainable to his desires - or forbidden to him - he attributed to these gods... Now he has himself approached very near to realizing this ideal, he has nearly become a god himself.”

Men Long Desire Realizing Ideals Conception Long Ago Forbidden Unattainable Omnipotence Omniscience

Book:Civilization and Its Discontents

Source: Civilization and Its Discontents

“The deluding passions are inexhaustible. I vow to extinguish them all. The number of beings is endless. I vow to save them all. The Truth cannot be told. I vow to explain it. The Way which cannot be followed is unattainable. I vow to attain it.”

Way Passion Numbers Endless Vow Unattainable

Author:Gautama Buddha

“I was always reading those beauty magazines and wanting to become this unattainable thing.”

Reading Magazines Unattainable Beauty Magazines

Author:Jennifer Aniston

“The possible has been tried and failed. Now it's time to try the impossible.”

Trying Has Beens Impossible Musician African American Unattainable

Author:Sun Ra

“Girls my age dress so much raunchier than I'd ever imagine myself dressing. I understand that I'm a role model, though, and I have to look out for that. I have a 10-year-old sister, too. But you also want to be appealing to guys and stuff, that's just something girls feel. It's hard. You want to be that girl that's unattainable to all the guys because there are so many other girls out there that are like that.”

Want Feels Years Looks Hard Age Guy Girl Stuff Roles Imagine Models Dresses Role Models Dressings That Girl Unattainable Other Girl

Author:Lindsay Lohan

“It's wrong for women to be constantly shy and embarrassed about their bodies. There are so many images of unattainable beauty that are so destructive. It's important to show how your body really is. As the cliche has it, beauty comes from within.”

Important Shows Body Your Body Destructive Shy Embarrassed Cliche Unattainable Beauty Comes From Within

Author:Alex Kingston

“What is appealing is the idea of attaining the unattainable and learning from it. Once you obtain a fantasy it becomes a reality, and that reality is not as exciting as your fantasy. Through the fantasies you learn to appreciate your own realities.”

Ideas Reality Fantasy Appreciate Exciting Unattainable Appreciate You Learn To Appreciate

Author:Ricardo Montalban

“And a true God is not One with the most servants, but One who serves the most, thereby making Gods of all others. For this is both the goal and the glory of God: that His subjects shall be no more, and that all shall know God not as the unattainable, but as the unavoidable.”

Knows Goal Subjects Glory Servant Knowing God Glory Of God Unattainable True God

Book:Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

Source: Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

“If there be any who nurture in their hearts the poisonous brew of enmity toward another, I plead with you to ask the Lord for strength to forgive. This expression of desire will be of the very substance of your repentance. It may not be easy, and it may not come quickly. But if you will seek it with sincerity and cultivate it, it will come. And even though he whom you have forgiven continues to pursue and threaten you, you will know you have done what you could to effect a reconciliation. There will come into your heart a peace otherwise unattainable.”

“The best minds come from the most unexpected faces and places. There is no image for intelligence or genius. Genius is something that cannot be seen. It cannot be produced or manufactured. It is something that even the true genius thinks is unattainable. The genius recognizes he’s just a small pea in a sea of infinite atoms. Knowledge is as infinite as the universe. The man who claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing.”

Thinking Knows Men Mind Faces Universe Sea He Man Genius Claims Infinite Unexpected Atoms Unattainable Peas True Genius

Author:Suzy Kassem

“I could stand to lose 10 or 15 pounds, but honestly, I'm happy the way I am. I feel comfortable with it. I'd rather have that extra 10, 15 pounds on me than live a lifestyle of trying to sustain this unattainable weight.”

Way Feels Trying Loses Comfortable Weight Honestly Lifestyle Extras Pounds Unattainable

Author:Stephanie Klein

“The dog and the rabbit are telling us not to chase unattainable material goals.”

Goal Dog Materials Rabbits Unattainable

Author:Kit Williams

“We know nothing like the divine holiness. It stands apart, unique, unapproachable, incomprehensibl e and unattainable... Holy is the way God is. To be holy He does not conform to a standard. He is that standard.”

Knows Way Doe Divine Holy Unique Standards Holiness Conform Unattainable

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“The young do not demand omniscience. They know it is unattainable. They do demand sincerity.”

Knows Young Demand Sincerity Unattainable Omniscience

Book:THE ART OF TEACHING

Source: THE ART OF TEACHING

“The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.”

Life Is Photography Photographer Enormous Visuals Undertakings Unattainable Photography By Photographers Great Photography Art Photography

Book:Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field

Source: Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field

“The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.”

Knows Age History Too Much Written Victorian Unattainable Victorian Age

Author:Lytton Strachey

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