Gabriel Medina

That was my dream, to compete against the best surfers in the best waves. But as a kid, it all seemed so unattainable. It was this big dream, but deep down I never thought it could really happen. But my parents always believed I could do it, and they helped me get through all the stages and take all the right steps.

Brazilian Athlete

Nicholas Gonzalez

A lot of really good actors are able to go straight from life to their work. They don't treat it as something that's an unattainable, weird thing that they have to aspire to and reach for in a scene.

American Actor

Karan Johar

I think that I have self esteem issues, really. If you really analyse it... People who really like me I have no interest in. The unattainable is always that I want to attain.

Indian Director

Sean Evans

Celebrity is this thing that's unattainable. This unattainable lifestyle. This unattainable social status. But there's nothing more commonplace than dying from hot sauce.

American Entertainer

William Osler

In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.

Canadian Scientist

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Perfection is worth striving for, even if it is ultimately unattainable in this life.

American Businessman

Irving Howe

The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.

American Historian

George Wald

I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective.

American Scientist

Aldous Huxley

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

English Novelist

Dorothea Lange

The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.

American Photographer

Use 'unattainable' when discussing goals that are impossible, to emphasize setting realistic targets.

Realistic Goals

'Unattainable' often carries a sense of disappointment or hardship in reaching a desired outcome.

Emotional Impact

It suggests aiming for something very ambitious, beyond the norm.

High Aspirations

'Unattainable' can be applied to expectations that are too extreme or demanding.

Excessive Expectations

It may indicate that someone is being overly idealistic, not practical or down-to-earth.

Idealistic Standards

Used when someone or something has more potential than what is actually realized.

Unmet Potential

Often describes concepts or ideas in academics that are too complex to fully grasp.

Complex Concepts

Highlights the boundaries of human knowledge or understanding in certain domains.

Limit of Knowledge

Used in an academic context to address the difficulty in comprehending abstract or philosophical ideas.

Abstract Difficulties

 But what perfectionism doesn't tell us is that soon after reaching that summit, we will be called down again to the fresh lowlands of insecurity and shame, just to try and scale that peak again. This is the cycle of self-defeat. In the pursuit of unattainable perfection, a perfectionist just cannot step off.

Our dangerous obsession...

 Our lives are full of fish swimming backwards. We make assumptions and faulty leaps of logic. We harbor bias. We know that we are right, and they are wrong. We fear the worst. We strive for unattainable perfection. We tell ourselves what we can and cannot do.

Isaac Lidsky: What...

 But if we are pulled in these two directions, but it's not really where we exist -- polarity is not our actual reality -- where do we go from there? What's at the other end of that spectrum? I don't think it's an unattainable, harmonious utopia,

Ash Beckham: When to...

 Today, I'm running a self-funded, multimillion dollar business that has been profitable since day one. Growing up where I'm from, building a successful business felt unattainable. But turns out that entrepreneurial spirit was there all along.

3 rules to help you...

 long-term weight maintenance may simply be unattainable given the current treatments available. Although individual health behaviors are important for positive health outcomes, these behaviors are driven by the context in which we,

Olivia Affuso: 3 ways...

 millions that want to study yet cannot access it for various reasons. financial. Universities are expensive; we all know it. In large parts of the world, higher education is unattainable for an average citizen.

An ultra-low-cost...

 The funny thing was, it was actually at that time a feminist declaration of independence from the pressure I felt as a 17-year-old, to conform to a perfect and unattainable standard of beauty.

What it's like to be a...

 in any innovation, results and accountability. Now, before you think that I'm just making a naive overpromise of some crazy, unattainable utopia, I want to clarify that I'm not.

US politics isn't...

 shame for women is this web of unattainable conflicting competing expectations about who were supposed to be and it's a straitjacket for men shame is not a bunch of competing

Listening to shame -...

 Look familiar? Music led me on a path of searching for what seemed like the unattainable for a very long time.