2008年11月7日星期五

破烂儿的"叶茂中"式设想:The impossible is often the untried!

The impossible is often the untried.
Jim Goodwin
不可能通常是未尝试过。
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今日习书,突发奇想。竟假设了人生--人生是可以规划的,像商战的一个案例,如棋局的一子险招,希望它不仅仅给予人遐想空间的自由和乐趣,而且可能也就是狂胜之笔!
故事可以这般设计:破烂儿嘛自然衣裳褴褛、衣食无着。然后假设破烂儿有奇趣、致情或远志,则可以为命运多做一次前奏--而前奏是决定着人生剧情的走向。我想说不是最艰难是怎么可以度过,不是哪一顿饭向狗群争求,不是那一对一直呆呆的天问式的眼球。而是一次理论上都应存在的额外试验!问他为命运可以不可以做得更好?!假如正有我的习书时生发的伟愿和壮感,当然不能像我的一时神思灵感(我的记录就是想要化神思灵感为人生的一种习惯或状态)!--这必使默默无闻者声名遐迩,麻雀也能变凤凰!于是,每天要有两小时为命运专门铺打的“苦功”(也是一种快乐的至境)--在时间的流里必须像保家卫国、浴血奋战那样的英雄神圣、英勇、美妙,或强悍之主或温婉之种!则他必可以两个小时习书(这是可以指代的,如习拳练脚),以汲百家之长,常胜钟灵毓秀,则三十年后,四十年后或五十年后,又一“王羲之”,则在当今艺术投资市场愈加发达的机遇里,必能丰衣足食,亦一大美事也!!!此“国宝”又何必重为生计而破烂为?!--问题就在于捡破烂的总是贪早起晚捡破烂,中间绰绰的时空用于悠游和排遣!可惜了!
再说每个自己,现状又何如?捡破烂的或许有难处,但我们何以不能规划人生好好来过?捡破烂的可以成为书圣、画圣、乐圣或武圣什么的,我们这些在生活物质上比他们优越一倍、十倍和百倍的人,岂不更宜加努力,成为那“唾手可得”的圣物吗?!
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The impossible is often the untried.
Jim Goodwin

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.
Eric Hoffer

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
Gilbert Keith...

Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.' 'I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it half an hour a day. Why, sometimes, I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.'
Lewis Carroll

All things are possible until they are proved impossible-even the impossible may only be so, as of now.
Pearl Sydenst...

Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand -- a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods -- or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.
Willa Sibert ...

Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
A. H. Weiler

It is impossible to better yourself if you do not know what it means to be better.
Unknown

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Walt Disney

To please everybody is impossible were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody.
George Washin...

By asking for the impossible, obtain the best possible.
Italian Proverb

It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.
Ralph Waldo E...

No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
Elbert Hubbard

Act as if it were impossible to fail.
Dorothea Brande

Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
Jonathan Wint...

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Cla...

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
Ray Bradbury

No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.
Lily Tomlin

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.
Theodore Roet...

It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
Francois de L...

Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
Dr. Robert Sc...

Start by doing what's necessary then do what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Saint Francis...

It is impossible to love and to be wise.
Francis Bacon

The first time you do the impossible, it may take a little longer.
Sheila M. Kelly

The word impossible is not in my dictionary.
Napoleon Bona...

I love those who yearn for the impossible.
Johann von Go...

With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
Daisaku Ideda

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
Epictetus

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in determination.
Tommy Lasorda

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
William G. Mc...

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.
Confucius

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
Dr. Robert Sc...

It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
Dr. Howard Mu...

Whoso loves, believes the impossible.
Elizabeth Bar...

If this world were what it seems it should be, it is clear that it would be impossible for one man to enslave another.
Francois Mari...

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor Hugo

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Lewis Carroll

To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.
Joan Klempner

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.
Jean de La Fo...

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.
Lord Kelvin

It's practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry.
Joe Moore

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Sherlock Holmes

To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
Tom Robbins

It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed.
Baltasar Grac...

Accidents, try to change them -- it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.
Pablo Picasso

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
Arthur C. Cla...

I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.
Hal Borland

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Cla...

Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
Eric Hoffer

...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Conan Doyle

The government is unresponsive to the needs of the little man. Under 5'7, it is impossible to get your congressman on the phone.
Woody Allen

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
Jerome K. Jer...

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.
Stanislaw Lem

Accidents, try to change them-it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.
Pablo Picasso

When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Frederick Dou...

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim.
Henry Graham ...

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.
Confucius

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
Edmund Burke

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
Colette

Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
Mary McLeod B...

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.
Simone de Bea...

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
Saint Augustine

Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary impossible.
Dr. Robert Sc...

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence--beginning with one's own.
Henry Adams

Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.
Doug Larson

Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected
Pliny the Elder

Only those who attempt the absurd...will achieve the impossible. I think...I think it's in my basement...Let me go upstairs and check.
M. C. Escher

It is impossible to go through life without trust That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
Graham Greene

This became a credo of mine...attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
Bette Davis

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
Doug Larson

It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.
Thomas Mann

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
Woody Allen

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Conan Doyle

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
H.L. Mencken

It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.
Woody Allen

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Robert H. God...

What is the first business of one who practices philosophy To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.
Epictetus

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.
Elizabeth II

It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.
Bertrand Russ...

Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.
Samuel Johnson

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
Samuel Johnson

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
William Faulk...

I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.
Debi Thomas

If you want to touch the other shore badly enough, barring an impossible situation, you will. If your desire is diluted for any reason, you'll never make it.
Diana Nyad

To make inexpensive guns impossible to get is to say that you're putting a money test on getting a gun. It's racism in its worst form.
Roy Innis

It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.
Sir Arthur Ed...

Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.
Vaclav Havel

It's impossible to reach good conclusions with bad information. . . . We're all entitled to our own opinions. But none of us can afford to be wrong in our facts.
Mort Crim

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
Conan Doyle

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
Robert Anson ...

It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
Agnes Repplier

In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those to which it is impossible to attach a well-defined meaning.
H. A. Kramers

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success.
Dorthea Bragg

We are in favor of tolerance, but it is a very difficult thing to tolerate the intolerant and impossible to tolerate the intolerable.
George Dennis...

Most people who succeed n the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
Dr. Robert Sc...

Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Dr. Robert Sc...

We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.
John Berger

It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.
George Bernar...

Human beings are part of nature. Anything they do is natural. It's impossible for anything in nature to do anything unnatural.
Philip Jose F...

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance for it requires knowledge to perceive it and therefore he that can perceive it hath it not.
Jeremy Taylor

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Henry Peter B...

A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
Thomas Hardy

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.
Pearl Sydenst...

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.
Carolyn Heilb...

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
Henri Frdric ...

History is not going to be kind to liberals. With their mindless programs, they've managed to do to Black Americans what slavery, Reconstruction, and rank racism found impossible destroy their family and work ethic.
Walter Williams

We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
Libby Houston

It is possible to love your friends, your competitors, and even your enemies. It is hard, bitterly hard, but there is a long distance between hard and impossible.
Herbert Welch

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
Jim

Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category, just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health.
Gloria Steinem

Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.
Kathleen Norris

It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
Matthew Arnold

It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.
Frederick Bue...

There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes But you can't blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind. When we do the impossible we realize we are special people.
Jan Ashford

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John Fitzgera...

Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.
Max Born

Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit. A well-organized society should assure to such workers the efficient means of accomplishing their task, in a life freed from material care and freely consecrated to research.
Marie Curie

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
Douglas Adams

We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of Gods existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith.
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