Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.
Interpretation
Encourage young people to pursue the seemingly impossible, as they may achieve what others deem unachievable.
This quote suggests that young people should not be discouraged by the limitations and impossibilities often set by society. It highlights the idea that innovation and breakthroughs often come from those who do not yet understand what is deemed impossible, implying that ignorance in this context can lead to remarkable achievements. By promoting an open mindset, we allow potential to flourish.
In practice
This quote can be used in a graduation speech to inspire young graduates to pursue their dreams.
What is easy to read has been difficult to write. The labour of writing and rewriting, correcting and recorrecting, is the due exacted by every good book from its author, even if he knows from the beginning exactly what he wants to say. A limpid style is invariably the result of hard labour, and the easily flowing connection of sentence with sentence and paragraph with paragraph has always been won by the sweat of the brow.
Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they fail to interest it intelligently in the past, then all their historical learning is valueless except in so far as it educates themselves.
My TV show had been cancelled; nothing else had gone anywhere; some alliances I had made petered out and nothing came of them and I was looking at a long, long year ahead of me in which there was no work on the horizon, the phone wasn't ringing. I had two kids, one of them a brand-new baby, and I didn't know if I would be able to keep my house.
When something goes wrong, smile, cause there's always a next play.
Nothing in this world is impossible to a willing heart.
Take great comfort in knowing that ALL great feats are accomplished one small step at a time.
Coaches will say that it's not important for their team to run more, and they prefer to make games the right way. I want to make games only the right way and run 10 km more.
The struggle to the top alone will make a human heart SWELL.
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