Quotes About Attainability

So many of us believe in perfection, which ruins everthing else, because the perfect is not only the enemy of the good, itÄs also the enemy of the realistic, the possible, and the fun.

The writer Rebecca Solnit puts it well: "So many of us believe in perfection, which ruins everything else, because the perfect is not only the enemy of the good; it's also the enemy of the realistic, the possible, and the fun.

So many of us believe in perfection, which ruins everything else, because the perfect is not only the enemy of the good; it's also the enemy of the realistic, the possible, and the fun.

So many of us believe in perfection, which ruins everything else, because the perfect is not only the enemy of the good; it's also the enemy of the realistic, the possible, and the fun.

I grew up going to Dodger Stadium and I would look out there on the field with my dad and say, 'Man, those guys are superstars.' And they were. But they almost had this extraterrestrial feel to them, like it wasn't achievable. It wasn't a tangible goal because I didn't know anything about the players.

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best

Don't Keep reaching for the stars because you'll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason

In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

I never try to set goals that I know are too tough to achieve or out of my reach.

I could not have been a rapper in 1985 and thought, 'I want to be a millionaire.' That was not a realistic dream.

One should not study what is best, but also what is possible, and similarly what is easier and more attainable by all.

A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.

I suppose it is the bane of mortality to suffer time as it narrows and confines, to know that never again will anything seem as wide, as open, as attainable as it did in our youth.

For whatever it's worth, I believe we're born imperfect, and perfection, whatever that may be, is unattainable by us mere humans.

Don't keep reaching for the stars because you'll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason.

To reach the appearance total of Xavi is impossible, I'm not thinking about that.

Don't Keep reaching for the stars because you'll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason

One measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a single individual, is what that age or person really wishes to do. A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.