The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

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"Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering."

- Arthur C. Clarke

Awareness

"How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean."

- Arthur C. Clarke

Awareness

"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."

- Arthur C. Clarke

Courage

"The Moon is the first milestone on the road to the stars."

- Arthur C. Clarke

Inspiration

"We cannot predict the new forces, powers, and discoveries that will be disclosed to us when we reach the other planets and set up new laboratories in space. They are as much beyond our vision today as fire or electricity would be beyond the imagination of a fish."

- Arthur C. Clarke

Inspiration

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"What a wonderful time to be young! You have knowledge of many more things than we needed to have. It is my conviction that your generation is better and stronger than was ours — better in many ways! I have faith that you young men and young women can meet the world on its own terms and conquer it!"

- President Boyd K. Packer

Ambition

"Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too."

- Mark Twain

Ambition

"Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals."

- David Ogilvy

Ambition

"No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed."

- Billie Jean King

Ambition

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."

- Michael Jordan

Ambition