Top 70 Impossible Task Quotes
#1. The task of understanding a culture built on the oral tradition is impossible to students steeped in the written tradition. p.55
Harold A. Innis
#2. Painting someone's portrait is, of course, an impossible task. What an absurd idea to try and distil a human being, the most complex organism on the planet, into flicks, washes, and blobs of paint on a two-dimensional surface.
David Cobley
#3. Russell Barkley similarly describes the primary problem in ADD as a deficit in the motivation system, which makes it impossible to stay on task for any length of time unless there is constant feedback, constant reward.
Edward M. Hallowell
#4. It is hard for an athlete to standout through an email, especially when his email gets mixed in with the emails coming from recruits that think they can play somewhere they really can't. That makes filtering through recruit emails an almost impossible task.
Billy Kennedy
#5. Our leaders were assassinated, one of the things I was reading today was - 28 Panthers were killed by the police but 300 Black Panthers were killed by other Panthers just within - internecine warfare. It just began to seem like we were in an impossible task given what we were facing.
Angela Davis
#6. If WikiLeaks were a for-profit company, determining its real value would be a nearly impossible task.
Evgeny Morozov
#7. Opportunity arises when a seemingly impossible task is met with an improbable solution.
Jeffrey Fry
#8. I will venture to assert, that a just translation of any ancient poet in rhyme is impossible. No human ingenuity can be equal to the task of closing every couplet with sounds homotonous, expressing at the same time the full sense, and only the full sense of his original.
William Cowper
#9. It seemed like an impossible task to do full justice to all Luther classics. And yet these landmark artists have done just that. Memorable performances of wonderful songs that ensure Luther's legacy will live on forever.
Clive Davis
#10. The main reason people fail is they become attached to others who hold them back. Letting go of others and going forward may seem like a lonely and impossible task, but I assure you it is not.
Frederick Lenz
#11. It is impossible for those who tried and kept trying to fail. How can they fail when they have not given up in the task?
N.K.David
#12. We live in a world of guns, bombs and terror. To conquer hate seems a nigh-impossible task.
Theodore Bikel
#13. If you set out in a spaceship to find the one planet in the galaxy that has life, the odds against your finding it would be so great that the task would be indistinguishable, in practice, from impossible.
Richard Dawkins
#14. If as a member of a slave nation I could deliver the suppressed classes from their slavery without freeing myself from my own, I would do so today. But it is an impossible task.
Mahatma Gandhi
#15. You, friend, are on a quest." "I don't know what that is," said Despereaux. "You don't have to know. You just have to feel compelled to do the thing, the impossible, important task at hand.
Kate DiCamillo
#16. Faced with what seems like an impossible task, a group of folks will do well to remember the African proverb: When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion.
Johnnetta B. Cole
#17. I will leave and isolate myself rather than go through the futile task of trying to make everyone happy, which is impossible anyway.
Donna Lynn Hope
#18. To make you hate me
The impossible task
Wasn't as hard
As I'd hoped
Jolene Perry
#19. The hugely popular Windows 95 operating system revolutionized the software world thanks to its capability of accomplishing the seemingly impossible task of making Bill Gates even richer than he already was.
Dave Barry
#20. It may be, too, that the task Heidegger sets for himself in Being and Time is in fact impossible. Heidegger's abandonment of the project one-third of the way through may itself be a formal indication of the impossibility of providing adequate philosophical terms for life as we live it.
S.J. McGrath
#21. Being a witch was indeed an onerous task. If people accepted us, they wanted the impossible. If they didn't, they wanted to burn us at the stake.
Maria E. Schneider
#22. When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#23. It is wrong to blame anyone for failing to forecast accurately in an unpredictable world. However, it seems fair to blame professionals for believing they can succeed in an impossible task. Claims
Daniel Kahneman
#24. But to Fitz she'd always be invisible. An impossible task of face and body for which he had yet to conquer. And should he somehow manage to crack her open like rotten fruit on the vine, he'd only find decay and ugliness, from which she had to assume he'd run. Damaged goods were damaged goods.
L. Donsky-Levine
#25. I believe that dreaming an impossible world, is itself the task of theologies and that the disparity between the world-as-it-is (reality) and the world-as-it-ought-to-be (ideality) is where a prophetic call comes in.
Namsoon Kang
#26. Without the power to concentrate that
is to say, without the power to dictate to the brain its task and to ensure obedience true life is impossible. Mind control is the first element of a full existence.
Arnold Bennett
#27. Beyond, the unknown lay before us once more, and another impossible task. The four of us emerged from the earth and turned our steps west, toward the last hope for Salvation.
Ann Aguirre
#28. God who is everything possesses the eye of awakening, like dreaming a long dream of an impossible task.
Jack Kerouac
#29. The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the exact instant when the 'I,' under another form, continues the task of existence.
Gerard De Nerval
#30. Sustaining an audience with a web series is an impossible task.
Felicia Day
#31. I look for mystery and try to decipher it while knowing it is an impossible task. I look for memory, where Mystery lies.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#32. It is impossible for those that tried and kept trying to fail. How can they fail when they have not given up in the task?" N.K.David
N.K.David
#33. One's better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one's own. In fact it's a terrible business and the task is a hard one.
Claude Monet
#34. Every novel is an attempt to capture time, to weave something solid out of air. The author knows it is an impossible task - that is why he keeps on trying.
David Beaty
#36. Give yourself an impossible task and solve it - then you've got a really good story.
Carl Reiner
#37. If a person sets out to practice meditation in this lifetime and they have a little bit of spiritual evolution behind them and they're quite dedicated, it really is not at all an impossible task to enter into salvakalpa samadhi in this particular lifetime.
Frederick Lenz
#38. To swim against waves is always an impossible task, but if you manage to do you will reach the shore where nobody even thought of. - Dr. Karan M Pai
Dr Karan M Pai
#39. When God wants to do an impossible task, He takes an impossible person and breaks her.
Mary E. DeMuth
#40. Organizing healthcare information is a daunting task, but it is not an impossible task. We've had people walk on the moon. This is a lot more doable.
Bill Maris
#41. To create a free society is not to accomplish the impossible task of convincing all people to abandon aggression, but to accomplish the essential task of convincing enough people to abandon the belief that aggression is ever legitimate.
Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
#42. By concentrating our attention on the effect rather than the causes, we can avoid the laborious, nearly impossible task of trying to detect and deflect the many psychological influences on liking.
Robert Cialdini
#43. Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task.
Michael Arndt
#44. The fact that the task to write perfect software is virtually impossible does not mean you aren't responsible for the imperfection.
Robert C. Martin
#45. We just eat a lot of guavas because its the only way to kill our hunger, and when it comes to defecating, we get in so much pain it becomes an almost impossible task, like you are trying to give birth to a country.
NoViolet Bulawayo
#46. Humility is the nearly impossible task of being more concerned with our own sins that we are with the sins of others.
Trevor Hammack
#47. A wonderful but kind of a terrible truth about acting is that you actually get to a point where you become content with an impossible task: it is really impossible to properly prepare. You kind of have to start over every time.
Val Kilmer
#48. So, basically, I have the impossible task of finding a non-smelly, drug-free virgin?
Isabelle Rowan
#49. The way to deal with an impossible task was to chop it down into a number of merely very difficult tasks, and break each one of them into a group of horribly hard tasks, and each of them into tricky jobs, and each of them ...
Terry Pratchett
#50. When you're doing all you can and "what more?" seems an impossible task, try thinking differently, step outside your box, and open your mind to solutions that were there all the time. Solutions you just couldn't see. Act
Roger Connors
#51. There's nothing really difficult if you only begin - some people contemplate a task until it looms so big, it seems impossible, but I just begin and it gets done somehow. There would be no coral islands if the first bug sat down and began to wonder how the job was to be done.
John Shaw Billings
#52. Popular as Keynesian fiscal policy may be, many economists are skeptical that it works. They argue that fine-tuning the economy is a virtually impossible task, and that fiscal-stimulus programs are usually too small, and arrive too late, to make a difference.
James Surowiecki
#53. One has only to contemplate the magnitude of this task to concede that the spontaneous generation of a living organism is impossible. Yet here we are-as a result, I believe, of spontaneous generation.
George Wald
#54. When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.
Karen Blixen
#55. Every artist has a central story to tell, and the difficulty, the impossible task, is trying to present that story in pictures
Gregory Crewdson
#56. In 'Play Misty For Me', its inexplicably assertive knife-woman nearly manages the impossible task of slaughtering Clint Eastwood.
Andrew Tudor
#57. A spiritually established life is not an easy task. But a materially satisfied life is an impossible task.
Sri Chinmoy
#58. Her task seemed ridiculous, the result of a momentary weakness, of believing in the impossible, that stories have a trajectory where we find things out, resolve things to our satisfaction and come out the other side, wiser and happier
Anne M. Chappel
#59. Lord, the task is impossible for me but not for Thee. Lead the way and I will follow.
Mary Slessor
#60. Protecting dozens of major coastal cities from future flooding will be challenging enough-rebuilding major coastal cities destroyed by super-hurricanes will be an almost impossible task.
Joseph J. Romm
#61. All translating seems to me to be simply an attempt to accomplish an impossible task.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
#62. How often-even before we began-have we declared a task 'impossible'? And how often have we construed a picture of ourselves as being inadequate? ... A great deal depends upon the thought patterns we choose and on the persistence with which we affirm them.
Piero Ferrucci
#63. It is useless to judge nineteenth-century Mormons by late twentieth-century standards. Both men and women were given an impossible task and failed at it. All we can do today is sympathize with them in their tragedies and marvel at their heroism as they suffered.
Todd M. Compton
#64. Were you hoping for a quest? A seemingly impossible task that you could relay to your queen afterward? Would you like to tell her that you found and slayed the dragon for love of her?
-Queen Sorcha
Melissa Marr
#65. Scriptures exhorted men to shun evil and become good - which seems to be an impossible task - since as soon as we try to add goodness in us, evil too gets added in us without our effort - almost automatically.
Awdhesh Singh
#66. let us not abandon all hope before we have set our hands to the task. Let us not lay down our rod and staff if we do not have the desired success at once. What is impossible for men remains possible for God. Eventually God's hour must come, if only we wait for it.
Philip Jacob Spener
#67. I discovered when I went all out, when I put 100 percent of my energy into some intense, impossible task - when my heart was jack-hammering, when lactic acid was sizzling through my muscles - that's when I felt good, normal, balanced.
Daniel Coyle
#68. Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.
Haim Ginott
#69. Approach each task in your life, no matter how simple or how complex, with power. Pick and choose things initially which are not impossible to succeed at. You need to develop the profile of a winner.
Frederick Lenz
#70. The only impossible task is the one which we fear to begin.
Debasish Mridha
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