“I refuse
to recognize that there are impossibilities. I cannot
discover that any one knows enough about anything on
this earth definitely to say what is and what is not
possible.
The right kind of experience, the right kind of technical
training, ought to enlarge the mind and reduce the number
of impossibilities. It unfortunately does nothing of
the kind. Most technical training and the average of
that which we call experience, provide a record of previous
failures and, instead of these failures being taken for
what they are worth, they are taken as absolute bars
to progress. If some man, calling himself an authority,
says that this or that cannot be done, then a hoard of
unthinking followers start the chorus: "it can't
be done"
Henry
Ford, My life and work, 1922 |