Isak Dinesen Quotes

Some things are impossible.

Many obstacles to the expansion of good will have presented themselves.

Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen.

I've learned over a period of years there are setbacks when you come up against the immovable object; sometimes the object doesn't move.

Working against a restriction - for me - often produces greater things than getting rid of all boundaries.

There are sometimes problems for which there is no immediate solution, and there are sometimes problems for which there is no solution.

My creativity thrives with limitations.

I just want to be perfect on court, but is not possible. The perfect doesn't exist.

It is always our inabilities that vex us.

I started adding up all the things I couldn't do.

It's impossible to fail completely and it's impossible to succeed perfectly.

But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this-that men despair and think things impossible.

Impossible things are really rough to do, you know.

Lessons often come dressed up as detours and roadblocks

Fences are made for those who cannot fly.

Everything was a constant battle. My first film was beautiful. I got an amazing cast. That worked out great. Everything else was like murphy's law. Everything that could go wrong, did go wrong.

You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed.

The nature of process, to one degree or another, involves failure. You have at it. It doesn’t work. You keep pushing. It gets better. But it’s not good. It gets worse. You got at it again. Then you desperately stab at it, believing “this isn’t going to work.” And it does!

Failure was a key element to my life’s journey.

Any great achievement is preceded by many difficulties and many lessons; great achievements are not possible without them.

For want of a block, man will stumble at a straw.

Cross the creek on the stepping stones of your failures.

By ourselves we suffer serious limitations. Together we can be something wonderful.

No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and prepared to assume responsibilities.

No matter how hard you work to bring yourself up, there's someone out there working just as hard, to put you down.