Source: The Secret Garden
„[Visionaries] not only believed that the impossible can be done, but that it must be done.“
— Bran Ferren American technologist 1953
To create for the ages, let's combine art and engineering, Bran, Ferren, January 23, 2018, www.ted.com, March 2014 https://www.ted.com/talks/bran_ferren_to_create_for_the_ages_let_s_combine_art_and_engineering,
— Lester B. Pearson 14th Prime Minister of Canada 1897 - 1972
Memoirs, Volume Two
Source: NB: ghost-written post-mortem by Munro and Inglis
„Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.“
— Martin Luther seminal figure in Protestant Reformation 1483 - 1546
„Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.“
— Martin Luther King, Jr. American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement 1929 - 1968
Protestant Reformation leader Martin Luther (King's namesake)
Misattributed
„Whatever can be done another day can be done today.“
— Michel De Montaigne, book Essays
Book I, Ch. 20
Essais (1595), Book I
„What men have done can still be done
And shall be done to-day.“
The Song of Abu Klea, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
„Now a' is done that men can do,
And a' is done in vain.“
— Robert Burns Scottish poet and lyricist 1759 - 1796
It Was A' for Our Rightfu' King, st. 2
Johnson's The Scots Musical Museum (1787-1796)
„A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done.“
— Andrew S. Grove Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer, and author 1936 - 2016
Attributed to Andy Grove in: Ciarán Parker (2006) The Thinkers 50: The World's Most Influential Business. p. 70
New millennium
„One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.“
— Marie Curie French-Polish physicist and chemist 1867 - 1934
Letter to her brother (1894)
— Frank Herbert American writer 1920 - 1986
"BuSab [Bureau of Sabotage] Manual"; p. 87
The Bureau of Sabotage series, Whipping Star (1969)
— Cesar Chavez American farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist 1927 - 1993
¡Sí se puede!
Personal motto later officially used by the United Farm Workers http://www.ufw.org/_page.php?menu=about&inc=about_vision.html
„There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.“
— Miguel de Cervantes Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright 1547 - 1616
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book II, Ch. 4.
„All can be done if the god-touch is there.“
— Sri Aurobindo, book Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
Savitri (1918-1950), Book One : The Book Of Beginnings
„Whatever can be done, can be undone.“
— Robert Jordan, A Crown of Swords
Rand al'Thor
A Crown of Swords (15 May 1996)
„I want to do everything in the world that can be done.“
— Fanny Kemble English actress and writer 1809 - 1893
Journal of a Residence in America, entry for September 11, 1832 (1835).
„Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.“
— Helen Keller, book Optimism
Optimism (1903)
Variant: Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement
— William Randolph Hearst American newspaper publisher 1863 - 1951
Advertisement, N.Y. Herald Tribune (August 19, 1946)
