#impossible

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success. ↗

— Dorthea Brande

#act #break #command #face #fail

Recently, I went to a disco with friends, and all the young people were saying, 'Dudamel, we want to go to your concert, but it's impossible because it's sold out.' It's really amazing. ↗

— Gustavo Dudamel

#because #concert #disco #friends #go

History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical. ↗

— Marc Bloch

#because #change #conditions #essentials #events

That a great battle must soon be fought no one could doubt; but, in the apparent and perhaps real absence of plan on the part of Lee, it was impossible to foretell the precise scene of the encounter. ↗

— Edward Everett

#apparent #battle #could #doubt #encounter

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#been #before #declared #doing #done

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#foresee #impossible #larger #never #person

I do believe in living out your own time, unless it's absolutely impossible, which it is for some people. ↗

— Alan Bates

#believe #i #i do #impossible #living

It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#explain #impossible #invoking #pattern #principle

It's impossible to be more flat-chested than I am. ↗

— Candice Bergen

#i #i am #impossible #more #than

It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law. ↗