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It was impossible to get a conversation going,
everybody was talking too much.
- Yogi Berra
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You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
You can observe a lot by just watching.
- Yogi Berra
If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
- Yogi Berra
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If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.
- Yogi Berra
It's like deja-vu, all over again.
- Yogi Berra
If you ask me anything I don't know,
I'm not going to answer.
- Yogi Berra
It ain't over till it's over.
- Yogi Berra
If you don't know where you are going,
you might wind up someplace else.
- Yogi Berra
The future ain't what it used to be.
- Yogi Berra
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice there is.
- Yogi Berra
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
- Dorthea Brande
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
- John Keywood
Failure does not exist.
Failure is simply someone else's opinion of how
a certain act should have been completed.
Once you believe that no act must be performed
in any specific other-directed way,
then failing becomes impossible.
- Wayne Dyer
It is impossible for a man to conceal himself.
In every act, word or gesture,
he stands revealed as he is,
and not as he would have himself appear to be.
From the Universe, nothing is or can be hidden.
- Ernest Holmes
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
- Walt Disney
It is impossible to begin to learn
that which one thinks one already knows.
- Epictetus
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
It is difficult to say what is impossible,
for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today
and the reality of tomorrow.
- Robert H. Goddard
It always seems impossible until its done.
- Nelson Mandela
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals,
because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out.
Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
Start by doing what's necessary;
then do what's possible;
and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
- St. Francis of Assisi
The only place where your dream becomes impossible
is in your own thinking.
- Robert H. Schuller
Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation
The difference between the impossible and the possible
lies in a persons determination.
- Tommy Lasorda
All that is necessary to break the spell
of inertia and frustration is this:
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
- Dorthea Brande
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you
to reach the heights of your capabilities
or make the money that you want
without becoming very good at it.
- Brian Tracy
Why, sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll
Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
- Anonymous
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
- Mother Teresa
Sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll
Nobody has ever asked the nuclear family to live
all by itself in a box the way we do.
With no relatives, no support,
we've put it in an impossible situation.
- Margaret Mead
Music expresses that which can not be said
and on which it is impossible to be silent.
- Victor Hugo
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive;
easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
- Henry Peter Brougham
Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools.
The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.
- Haim G. Ginott
We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing,
are doing the impossible for the ungrateful.
We have done so much, for so long, with so little,
we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.
- Mother Teresa
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible
will make violent revolution inevitable.
- John F. Kennedy
He who molds the public sentiment...
makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
- Abraham Lincoln
The existence of an anthropomorphic
"Father-figure" deity is not impossible,
merely exceptionally improbable and illogical.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
- Mark Twain
Begin building the future through
"conversation for possibility."
- Werner Erhard
A person isn't who they are during
the last conversation you had with them -
they're who they've been
throughout your whole relationship.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
People say conversation is a lost art;
how often I have wished it were.
- Edward R. Murrow
A conversation is greater than
the sum of its participants,
and can take on a life of its own.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.
- Billy Graham
The best argument against democracy is
a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
- Winston Churchill
Gossip and complaint are the underbelly of low conversation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Find a time and place of solitude.
Look into the distance, and into the future.
Visualize the tomorrow you are going to build -
and begin to build that tomorrow, today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success consists of going from failure to failure
without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
(also quoted as: "Courage is going from failure to failure
without losing enthusiasm."
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you
it's going to be a butterfly.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Going with the flow doesn't mean that we don't know where we're going;
it means that we are open to multiple ways of getting there.
Going with the flow means that we are aware of an energy
that is larger than our small selves,
and we are open to working with it, not against it.
- Madisyn Taylor
Just as the wave cannot exist for itself,
but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean,
so must I never live my life for itself,
but always in the experience which is going on around me.
- Albert Schweitzer
Feeling overwhelmed by apparent demands on our time
is like going to a restaurant,
ordering everything on the menu,
and complaining about indigestion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You don't get to choose how you're going to die,
only how you're going to live.
- Joan Baez
When I am getting ready to reason with a man,
I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself
and what I am going to say
and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
- Abraham Lincoln
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant.
You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard
or just think it's going to get on by itself.
You've got to keep watering it.
You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
- John Lennon
Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before,
but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.
- Ram Dass
Choose your goal and keep your eye on it. Never give up.
Perhaps you will need to change your plan
and approach you goal from a different direction, but don't quit.
Keep thinking. Keep re-planning. Keep going.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The big question is whether you are going to be able
to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
- Joseph Campbell
I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit.
"No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't.
But there was going to be when I began it.
It's just that something happened to it along the way."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Ever had a bad hair day -
a day when everything seemed to be going wrong?
Perhaps today is a day to soothe your ruffled feathers,
take a deep breath, and reaffirm that
the weight of the world is really not on your shoulders,
unless you choose to assume that burden.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a continuity always and always.
There is no final destination it is going towards.
Just the pilgrimage, just the journey in itself is life,
not reaching to some point,
no goal - just dancing and being in pilgrimage,
moving joyously, without bothering about any destination.
- Osho
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
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