Impossible Only To Those Who Think It
“Impossible is nothing” is a quote from an ad, staring World Championship Boxer Muhammad Ali. It has been observed that many of us have presuppositions on how things are and how it always will be. For many years people have believed that the world IS flat and persecuted even those who opposed this kind of thinking.
I believe that anyone with enough certainty can always find a way to make things happen. Most of the time limits us is the lack of certainty and self-belief. Feeling constrained by fear, we tend to settle and play it safe. We avoid the things that could put us on a whole new level.
So the question is what is really possible? Not judging possibilities by what is convenient and the availability of resources but by the capacity of our imaginations.
People mocked and laughed at the following inventions and facts:
A flying machine - airplane
Sending man to the moon
The automobile - car
The electric light
The internet
It’s true that possibilities are only limited by the size of our imagination. It was once said that no one could run a mile in under 4 minutes and no one has. Until one day a man by the name of Roger Bannister demystified this myth and proved to the world that with enough certainty and demand from himself, it could be accomplished. On May 6, 1954, Roger Bannister, a student at Oxford University, ran the first officially-recorded sub-four-minute mile at 3 minutes 59.4 seconds at the Iffley Road Track in Oxford, England.
Difference between good and great is just that extra one percent more. It’s in that extra push, that extra exertion of effort that enables a person to achieve excellence.
“The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.” - Roger Bannister
Here is the full quote from the ad featuring World Champion Boxer Muhammad Ali:
“Impossible is nothing. Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in a world that they have been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing”
I believe that anyone with enough certainty can always find a way to make things happen. Most of the time limits us is the lack of certainty and self-belief. Feeling constrained by fear, we tend to settle and play it safe. We avoid the things that could put us on a whole new level.
So the question is what is really possible? Not judging possibilities by what is convenient and the availability of resources but by the capacity of our imaginations.
People mocked and laughed at the following inventions and facts:
A flying machine - airplane
Sending man to the moon
The automobile - car
The electric light
The internet
It’s true that possibilities are only limited by the size of our imagination. It was once said that no one could run a mile in under 4 minutes and no one has. Until one day a man by the name of Roger Bannister demystified this myth and proved to the world that with enough certainty and demand from himself, it could be accomplished. On May 6, 1954, Roger Bannister, a student at Oxford University, ran the first officially-recorded sub-four-minute mile at 3 minutes 59.4 seconds at the Iffley Road Track in Oxford, England.
Difference between good and great is just that extra one percent more. It’s in that extra push, that extra exertion of effort that enables a person to achieve excellence.
“The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.” - Roger Bannister
Here is the full quote from the ad featuring World Champion Boxer Muhammad Ali:
“Impossible is nothing. Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in a world that they have been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing”