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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There obviously are a hell of a lot of people that love Lady Gaga. But to me, she's been the theatre of the absurd. And the more absurd it is, the bigger she got.
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The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
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There can be no whole without a thought which grasps it as a whole; and this grasping of what is before the mind as a whole can be effected only by a sort of voluntary halt in a kind of progressive movement of thought.
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There was nothing natural about laissez-faire; free markets could never have come into being merely by allowing things to take their course. Just as cotton manufactures were created by the help of protective tariffs, export bounties, and indirect wage subsidies, laissez-faire was enforced by the state.
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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.
