“They can because they think they can.”
Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) English writer
Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book V
“They can because they think they can.”
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book V, Line 231 (tr. John Conington)
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“They can because they think they can.”
John Conington (1825–1869) British classical scholar
Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book V, p. 153
“Because I'm the CEO, and I think it can be done.”
Steve Jobs (1955–2011) American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.
On why he chose to override engineers who thought the iMac wasn't feasible, as quoted in TIME magazine (24 October 2005)
2000s
Linus Torvalds (1969) Finnish-American software engineer and hacker
Message to Linux kernel mailing list, 2006-09-22, Torvalds, Linus, 2008-06-07 http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/9/22/319, <br class="br">2000s, 2006
Les espèces sont choisies non commes bonnes à manger, mais comme bonnes à penser.
Totemism (1962), [Le Totémisme aujourd'hui, as translated by Rodney Needham], p. 89
Often paraphrased as "Animals are good to think with".
Scott Adams (1957) cartoonist, writer
Dilbert blog, My day as a Neanderthal, 2006-10-25, http://web.archive.org/20061107115218/dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/10/my_day_as_a_nea.html, 2006-11-07 http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/10/my_day_as_a_nea.html,
“The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little.”
Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker
“Fortune assists the Bold, the Valiant Man
Oft Conqueror proves, because he thinks he can.”
John Ogilby (1600–1676) Scottish academic
Fab. LII: Of the Forrester, the Skinner, and a Bear, Moral
The Fables of Aesop (2nd ed. 1668)