Source: How to Become President (1940), Ch. 4 : How to attract attention and be drafted
“There is nothing impossible to him who will try.”
Alexander the Great (-356–-323 BC) King of Macedon
On taking charge of an attack on a fortress, in Pushing to the Front, or, Success under Difficulties : A Book of Inspiration (1896) by Orison Swett Marden, p. 55
“I write to try to understand, and because I have nothing better to do.”
José Saramago (1922–2010) Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature
"Efe" report, in Arrecife de Lanzarote (Spain), "Saramago diz que escreve por não ter 'nada melhor para fazer'", published in Folha de São Paulo http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/ilustrada/ult90u68178.shtml, 2007.
“By trying to understand everything, everything makes me dream”
Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (1821–1880)
George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism
The Genteel Tradition at Bay (1931)
Other works
“My father taught me to understand that not much was impossible, if you had a mind to go after it.”
Lewis Pugh (1969) Environmental campaigner, maritime lawyer and endurance swimmer
p 7
Achieving The Impossible (2010)
Context: My father taught me to understand that not much was impossible, if you had a mind to go after it. What seems beyond you is only unreachable if that’s what you believe.
“To understand possible means to understand impossible.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
Understanding http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/understanding-4/ <br class="br">From the poems written in English
E.M. Forster (1879–1970) English novelist
Letter 411, to Lionel Trilling, 1 August 1955
Selected Letters (1983-1985)
“Generally, it was impossible to understand the motives of aliens.”
M. John Harrison book Light
Source: Light (2002), Chapter 2 “Gold Diggers of 2400 AD” (p. 16)
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
Undated manuscript, "The Eternal Significance of Christ", an outline of a sermon on 2 Corinthians, at the King Center http://www.thekingcenter.org/archive/document/eternal-significance-christ
