M. C. Escher Quotes
Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.
Quotes to Explore
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I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that's cliche, I don't know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.
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I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in 'We, the people.'
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I have never believed in the impossible.
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I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood.
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It is impossible for human beings not to view something subjectively.
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Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.
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As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.
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There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.
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When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
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I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.
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The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.
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The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're so Southern California. It was a surprise to me.
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The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
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I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.
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Send me one hundred francs on our future deals, otherwise I will disappear in a cataclysm.
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You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me.
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Drugs scared me.
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What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it matters. For me, it doesn't.
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Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.
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By the end of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for South Vietnam to survive. How in the heck could they?
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Many, many times, the kids with the less talent become the better athletes because they're more dedicated to achieving their full potential.
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It is written on the gate of heaven: Nothing in existence is more powerful than destiny. And destiny brought you here, to this page, which is part of your ticket-as all things are-to return to God.
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The belts to me, they don't really mean much to be honest. It's the people who I fought and me going out there competing and fighting.
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Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.
