Re: OT - The impossibility of impossibility - Re: OT- Relativistic mechanics and such - was - Re: tbird problem
On Sat, 7 Jun 2025 20:32:55 +0800
Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> wrote:
> "
> “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela
>
> “To believe a thing impossible is to make it so.” – French
> Proverb
>
> “Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may
> have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the
> impossible to do that very thing.” – G. M. Trevelyan
>
> “So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem
> improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become
> inevitable.” – Christopher Reeve
>
> “Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before
> breakfast.” – Lewis Carroll
>
> “It is either easy or impossible.” – Salvador Dali
>
> “To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it
> seems so.” – Sir Walter Scott
>
> “We have more power than will; and it is often by way of excuse
> to ourselves that we fancy things are impossible.” – Francois Duc De
> la Rochefoucauld
>
> “Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.” –
> Robert A. Heinlein
>
> “The word impossible is not in my dictionary.” – Napoleon
> Bonaparte
>
> “Impossible only means that you haven’t found the solution yet.”
> – Anonymous
>
> “No one gets very far unless he accomplishes the impossible at
> least once a day.” – Elbert Hubbard
>
> “Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it
> impossible for anyone to accomplish.” – Marcus Aurelius
>
> “What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or
> impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more
> likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.” – Anthony Robbins
>
> “The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely
> improbable lacks.” – Douglas Adams
>
> “We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of
> them as impossible.” – Vince Lombardi
>
> “The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your
> own thinking.” – Robert Schuller
>
> “The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible
> and achieves the impossible.” – Anonymous
>
> “In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the
> absurd.” – Miguel de Cervantes
>
> “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to
> achieve: the fear of failure.” – Paulo Coelho
>
> “Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they
> fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.” – Amelia Earhart
>
> “Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.” – Charles F.
> Kettering
>
> “Every noble work is at first impossible.” – Thomas Carlyle
>
> “There is nothing impossible to him who will try.” – Alexander
> the Great
>
> “It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.” – Walt Disney
> "
> - https://impossiblehq.com/25-impossible-quotes/
>
Another Heinlein:
“Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and
why. Then do it.”
--
Joe
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