#attainable

He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#love #rules #unattainable #love

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task. ↗

— Haim Ginott

#expected #goals #impossible #inadequate #miracle

Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#attainable #helps #measure #probability #psychology

Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story. I doubt that thematic closure is never attainable. ↗

— Gene Wolfe

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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. ↗

— Vince Lombardi

#catch #chase #excellence #perfection

You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them. ↗

— Rafael Palmeiro

#away #bit #enough #every #far

The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable. ↗

— Irving Howe

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I don't wanna need you because I can't have you. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#need #the-bridges-of-madison-county #unattainable #love

Unconditional love, is love, regardless anything; attainable or impossible. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#endurance #forever #impossible #love #strength

The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#becoming #cannot #come #efforts #give