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What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.
Sep 10, 2025
The difference between possible and impossible is hard work and commitment.
Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
A proper record shop reminds us why we got into this in the first place - a place to be reminded of old friends, still in their spots on the shelves, a source of unexpected magic and lucid memories - a place that reminds us that music is more than dumb file sharing and the management of dead data by faceless sociopathic corporations, but a storehouse of dreams, both possible and impossible.
When you start out on a career in the arts you have no idea what you are doing. This is great. People who know what they are doing know the rules, and know what is possible and impossible. You do not. And you should not. The rules on what is possible and impossible in the arts were made by people who had not tested the bounds of the possible by going beyond them. And you can. If you don't know it's impossible it's easier to do. And because nobody's done it before, they haven't made up rules to stop anyone doing that again, yet.
But there's a world beyond what we can see and touch, and that world lives by its own laws. What may be impossible in this very ordinary world is very possible there, and sometimes the boundaries between the two worlds disappear, and then who can say what is possible and impossible?
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
I love those who yearn for the impossible.
It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.
When nothing is sure, everything is possible.
So my antagonist said, "Is it impossible that there are flying saucers? Can you prove that it's impossible?" "No," I said, "I can't prove it's impossible. It's just very unlikely." At that he said, "You are very unscientific. If you can't prove it impossible then how can you say that it's unlikely?" But that is the way that is scientific. It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible.
Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.
Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
One can't believe impossible things.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Every noble work is at first impossible.
The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.
Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!
Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.
Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.
All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.
Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
Nelson Mandela said: 'It always seems impossible until it's done.' Peace is possible.
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.
The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE.
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.
Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along.
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.
We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
It always seems impossible until its done.
Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.