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"It is so tempting to try the most difficult thing possible."Jennie Churchill (1854–1921), US socialite and writer
Source: Quoted in Daily Chronicle (July 8, 1909) -
"We specialize in the wholly impossible."Nannie Burroughs (1883–1961), US educator and journalist
Motto of the National Training School for Girls in Washington.
Source: Quoted in Black Women in White America (1972) -
"I am always doing things I can’t do, that's how I get to do them."Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), Spanish artist and sculptor
Source: Quoted in Street-Smart Advertising (Margo Berman, 2006) -
"You must do the thing you think you cannot do."Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962), US reformer, author, and first lady
Source: You Learn by Living (1960) -
"The secret of life is to have a task—something you bring everything to. And the most important thing is—it must be something you cannot possibly do."Henry Moore (1898–1986), British sculptor
Source: Quoted in The Brand You 50; Reinventing Work (Tom Peters, 1999)


