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• If you want to create something that's worth doing you have to self-edit from the get-go. You really must be careful and selective with whom you work, you must constantly ask yourself the hard questions about your art, and you must set a nearly unattainable standard for yourself.

  John Dyer Baizley

  Art, Self, Doing You

  "BARONESS' John Dyer Baizley Interview About His Artwork Process". Interview with Michael Weigman, www.metalinjection.net. July 10, 2014.

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• Philosophers say that perfection is unattainable. Lithographers redefine perfection according to SEMI standards.

  Ken Goldberg

  Perfection, Philosopher, Standards

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• The scope for improvement is infinite, precisely because perfection is unattainable.

  George Soros

  Perfection, Improvement, Infinite

  George Soros (2007). “Open Society Reforming Global Capitalism Reconsidered”, p.26, PublicAffairs

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• Set reasonable goals; not something vague and unrealistic like "I want to be super-model skinny." I always had visions of very thin actresses in my mind when I was at the gym and it seemed so unattainable that I would quit any health regimen before it even got off the ground. But when I changed my mindset to focusing on making the healthiest choices possible for myself, it was a lot more realistic, more attainable, and then the results were visible.

  Alison Sweeney

  Goal, Choices, Mind

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• It has cost me years of thought to arrive at certain results, by many believed to be unattainable, for which there are now numerous claimants, and the number of these is rapidly increasing, like that of the colonels in the South after the war.

  Nikola Tesla

  War, Numbers, Years

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “A New System of Alternating Current Motors and Transformers and Other Essays”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no death where the inner light shines, irradiating the fields of the within -- the beyond -- the unattainable attainment. You know where to find me.

  Elsa Barker

  Light, Shining, Fields

  Elsa Barker (2011). “Letters from the Afterlife: A Guide to the Other Side”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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• Perfection is worth striving for, even if it is ultimately unattainable in this life.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Perfection, Strive, This Life

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• 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.

  Alex Kingston

  Important, Shy, Body

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• 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.

  Ricardo Montalban

  Reality, Ideas, Appreciate

  "'Fantasy Island's' Ricardo Montalban Dead at 88", www.foxnews.com. January 15, 2009.

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• 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.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Goal, Glory, Servant

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.93, Penguin

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• 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.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Forgiveness, Heart, Expression

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• 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.

  Suzy Kassem

  Men, Thinking, Sea

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• 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.

  Stephanie Klein

  Trying, Weight, Way

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• Overwhelming and astounding inequality,especially when it has an element of the unattainable, arouses far less envy than minimal inequality, which inevitably causes the envious to think: I might have been in his place.

  Helmut Schoeck

  Thinking, Envy, Causes

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• 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.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Unique, Doe, Holiness

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

  Gilbert Highet

  Demand, Sincerity, Young

  GILBERT HIGHET (1950). “THE ART OF TEACHING”

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• The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.

  Dorothea Lange

  Photography, Photographer, Life Is

  Anne Whiston Spirn, Dorothea Lange (2009). “Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field”, University Of Chicago Press

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• Ignorance of the law of irreducibility was no excuse. I could no longer excuse myself with the claim that I didn't know the law -- for knowledge of self and of the world is the law that, even though unattainable, cannot be broken, and no one can excuse himself by saying that he doesn't know it. . . . The renewed originality of the sin is this: I have to carry out my unknowing, I shall be sinning originally against life.

  Clarice Lispector

  Ignorance, Self, Law

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• My existence is such that "I" do not really exist. At the end of understanding so much I understand that I know nothing. I suffer for being surrounded by intense suffering and yet I'm deeply suspicious if first of all there is indeed any consciousness except me. I strive to find the artist who might have fathered this great universal art but feel myself to be too feeble to accomplish this seemingly unattainable mission. Yet I have every respect for life, and it is this sheer respect that makes me live.

  Kedar Joshi

  Art, Understanding, Suffering

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• Taylor Swift is so flawless, and so unattainable, and I don't think it's breeding anything good in young girls.

  Lorde

  Girl, Thinking, Flawless

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• I want to be first. I know that’s selfish, and maybe unattainable, and maybe shallow. But I just want to come first with someone. If that’s wrong of me, so be it. I’ll be wrong. But that’s the way I feel.” (Sookie Stackhouse)

  Charlaine Harris

  Selfish, Want, Way

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• It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying through the stratosphere, or landing on the moon. First-rate pursuits - involving, as they must, trying to understand what life is about and trying to convey that understanding - inevitably result in a sense of failure. A Napoleon, a Churchill, or a Roosevelt can feel himself to be successful, but never a Socrates, a Pascal, or a Blake. Understanding is forever unattainable.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Success, Beautiful, War

  Malcolm Muggeridge, Ian Hunter (2003). “The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge”, p.260, Regent College Publishing

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• Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics. - It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal.

  Cassius Jackson Keyser

  Ignorance, Mind, Statistics

  Cassius Jackson Keyser (1922). “Mathematical Philosophy: A Study of Fate and Freedom; Lectures for Educated Laymen”

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• There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. An art school is a place where about three people work with feverish energy and everybody else idles to a degree that I should have conceived unattainable by human nature.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Art, School, Should Have

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• What separates me from most so-called atheists is a feeling of utter humility toward the unattainable secrets of the harmony of the cosmos.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Religious, Atheist

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