Dorothea Brande Quotes

The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.

If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need pioneers.

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.

Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities.

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

Madame, if it is possible, it has already been done; if impossible, it will be done.

The reason so few people are successful is no one has yet found a way for someone to sit down and slide uphill.

Success is not about how much money we have in the bank, but it's about how many peoples' lives we have impacted through it. Success is experienced when we do things which are never done before.

I pick projects according to how fascinating they are to me, and it has resulted in a broad reach. My records are actually in five different sports: balloons, airplanes, airships, gliders, and sailboats.

Those who say, 'It can't be done,' are usually interrupted by others doing it.

If you go back to the early days of aviation, the guys designing it built it, and then they got in it and flew it. I mean, who does that anymore?

To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.

I'm always driven to keep doing something different and better.

It's only when you push at the edges that you excel.

The first flash of genius lights up only a few yards of the road. The road is long and uphill.

We started Fox when everyone said it couldn't be done.

As soon as you do something successfully, you're going to be known for that, and it's up to you to sort of move the needle again.

You're going up against the billionaire boys' club or trying to find your way into something you have no basis for, and it's bigger than anything you ever imagined - and then actually having that work. Having that risk pan out. It taught me to be very fearless - maybe too fearless in the end.

My general idea about my work is that it's more about the work than the things that come with it. I am constantly striving to improve on that and find new things to do there. That journey itself is so interesting is because there's so much to do that there's no room for doubt there.

It's never been done doesn't mean it can't be done.

Nothing is impossible. With so many people saying it couldn't be done, all it takes is an imagination.

They did not know it was impossible so they did it

Somebody is always doing something that somebody else said couldn't be done.

Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles.

To create a new standard, you have to be up for that challenge and really enjoy it.