Lewis Mumford Quotes

Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible.

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

If you're 19, you don't know what can't be done.

The biggest thing I've learnt is not to limit myself by the norm or what I should be doing.

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.

We tend to believe that things are impossible that are very possible.

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'

I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.

Don't be put off by people who know what is not possible. Do what needs to be done, and check to see if it was impossible only after you are 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.

Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.

If people tell you it's impossible, it's an even better reason to want to do it. People have a tendency to see the problem rather than the final result. If you treat the problems as possibilities, life will start to dance with you in the most amazing ways.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

I pride myself on breaking any box that anyone wants to put me in.

Anything can happen in SF. And the fact that nothing ever does happen in SF is only due to the poverty of our imaginations, we who write it or edit it or read it. But SF can in principle deal with anything.

There's a moment where Jobs says that one day you will wake up and realize that the world was created by people no smarter than you. I want people to believe that; we're so often bound by obstructions and judges.

The common person fears to think beyond the common.

History is just littered with problems that were solved that were supposed to be impossible.

I think there is something to be said for what you can do when you don't know what you aren't supposed to be able to do.

If you're a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don't understand talent any more than we understand electricity.

I guess I still have this motto: 'What else can I get away with?' And unpredictability in film - that's the hardest thing there is.

You tell me what's impossible and I'll prove you wrong.

You do not move forward by following convention. You celebrate those who are different, who are not burdened by 'normality.'

For me, in my auditioning career and my professional life, since I am kind of a big person and since I have a big personality, I often find myself trying to squeeze myself into boxes that are really too small for me, and it ends up not working out.