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• For reason's measurements, which attain unto temporal things, do not attain unto things that are free from time-just as hearing does not attain unto whatever is not-audible, even though these things exist and are unattainable by hearing.

  Nicholas of Cusa

  Doe, Hearing, Measurement

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• The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Adventure, Safety, Spirit

  1925 Science and the Modern World.

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

  J. R. D. Tata

  Priorities, Target, Trouble

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• Distance... is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision... But alas! when we have attained our object, when the distant 'there' becomes the present 'here,' all is changed; we are as poor and circumscribed as ever, and our souls still languish for unattainable happiness.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Distance, Soul, Mind

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2017). “The Sorrows of Young Werther (English German Edition, illustrated): Die Leiden des jungen Werther (Englisch Deutsch Ausgabe illustriert)”, p.51, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God has given us, and never stop learning

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Might, Strive, Given

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• love doesn't follow the rules... nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable.

  Jodi Picoult

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness. The day is coming when you will wake to find, beyond all hope, that you have attained it, or else, that it was within your reach and you have lost it forever.

  C. S. Lewis

  Forever, Consciousness, Lost

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Love is as necessary to human beings as food and shelter; [but] without intelligence, ... love is impotent and freedom unattainable.

  Aldous Huxley

  Love Is, Shelter, Humans

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• Until my Yoga practice became the great facilitator of all things in my life, the integration of career, purpose and motherhood felt like an unattainable dream.

  Brenda Strong

  Dream, Yoga, Motherhood

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• I sung from an early age and I was always given nice parts in school musicals, but I definitely wasn't the golden girl. I didn't have the guts. You've got to have a real confidence in yourself to be like: "I'm gonna be a singer and write songs." I never thought it would go anywhere because it's so unattainable to be a singer.

  Jessie Ware

  Girl, Song, Real

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It was a good thing that she got herself into this other school. It showed her that there were other worlds beside the world she had been born into and that these other worlds were not unattainable.

  Betty Smith

  School, Other Worlds, Good Things

  BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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• By the time you get into other kinds of music - R&B, country, or whatever - it becomes something that's romantic. It becomes something unattainable. Never-ending undying love. And in hip hop, we're still taking direct inspiration.

  Talib Kweli

  Country, Inspiration, Hip Hop

  Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• If a night-moth were to concentrate its will on flying to a star or some equally unattainable object, it wouldn't succeed. Only, it wouldn't even try in the first place. A moth confines its search to what has sense and value for it, what it needs, what is indispensable to its life... if I imagined that I wanted under all circumstances to get to the North Pole, then to achieve it I would have to desire it strongly enough that my whole being was ruled by it. But if I were to decide to will that the pastor should stop wearing his glasses, it would be useless. That would be making a game of it.

  Hermann Hesse

  Stars, Night, Glasses

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• You, have this whole tall, dark stranger thing going on. Not to mention the tortured artist bit. And you, have that whole blonde cool and collected perfect smart thing going on. You're the boy all the girls want to rebel with. You, are the unattainable girl in homeroom who never gives a guy the time of day.

  Sarah Dessen

  Girl, Smart, Dark

  "The Truth About Forever". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2004.

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• The essence of art that is at all noble is the DREAM, and this dream dwells only upon what is distant, absent, vanished, unattainable.

  Georges Rodenbach

  Dream, Art, Essence

  Georges Rodenbach, Mike Mitchell (2011). “Bruges-La-Morte”, p.13, SCB Distributors

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• Despite the knowledge that her affections were unattainable, I couldn't help but be drawn to try.

  Kiera Cass

  Trying, Helping, Affection

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• Is it that your dream is unattainable or is it that you have the wrong dream?

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Dream, Vision, Your Dreams

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• As a leader, you must be filled with energy and eagerness, joy and love for what you do. If you lack enthusiasm for your job, you cannot perform to the best of your ability. Industriousness is unattainable without Enthusiasm.

  John Wooden

  Jobs, Joy, Leader

  John Wooden (2005). “Wooden on Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organizaion”, p.22, McGraw Hill Professional

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• In man's life, the absence of an essential component usually leads to the adoption of a substitute. The substitute is usually embraced with vehemence and extremism, for we have to convince ourselves that what we took as second choice is the best there ever was. Thus blind faith is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves; insatiable desire a substitute for hope; accumulation a substitute for growth; fervent hustling a substitute for purposeful action; and pride a substitute for an unattainable self-respect.

  Eric Hoffer

  Pride, Men, Self

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• If we are able to meet these two requirements - regularity in meditation and leading a good life in society, day-to-day a good life - then nothing would be unattainable by us.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Good Life, Two, Meditation

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1986). “Thirty Years Around the World: 1957-1964”, Stichting Drukkerij En Uitgeverij Mvu

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• Complete honesty has nothing to do with 'purity' or naivety. The full truth is unattainable to naivety, and the completely honest artist is not pure in heart.

  Clement Greenberg

  Truth, Honesty, Heart

  Clement Greenberg (1971). “Art and Culture: Critical Essays”, p.146, Beacon Press

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• I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.

  Dan Deacon

  Energy, Needs, Want

  Interview with Chris Martins, www.avclub.com. April 22, 2009.

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• The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve, my life and my values could not bring me to that.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Views, Shining

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• One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth century has been to prove that that aim is unattainable.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Science, Giving, Achievement

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• Nothing is unattainable when America comes together around a common cause.

  Alma Powell

  America, Together, Causes

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