Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.
Interpretation
Most people who say something can't be done are simply unwilling to try.
This quote by William Feather emphasizes that the primary barrier to achieving goals is often an individual's reluctance to put in the effort. It suggests that many assertions of impossibility stem not from reality but from a lack of willingness, urging us to overcome our doubts and take action.
In practice
This quote can inspire someone who feels discouraged about starting a new project.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.
The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
Watch the film, not the stopwatch.
Experiencing pain in your muscles and aching, that's what makes the muscle grow. and that divides one from being a champion and one from not being a champion. If you can go through this pain barrier, you may get to be a champion. If You can't go through it, forget it.
We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.
No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.
I work seven days a week, from 9 in the morning till 8 at night. I have the titles of the next eight novels I want to write. I feel myself pitiable, degraded on a day that I don't write.
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