Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. -Francis of Assisi 536
Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future. 711
The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible. 592
If I thought that any of this was pre ordained, then it takes away any kind of incentive to struggle, or to put up with things, to reach for those impossible dreams, all those dramatic things. 2.21K
We’re special because dreams that are impossible anywhere else, come true here. That’s not just my story. That’s your story. That’s our story. 961
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. 565
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation. 2.44K
It’s important to say that actors can’t act alone, it’s impossible. What we have to do is support each other. 552
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. 807
It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not. 595
