To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God. <\/i><\/p>\n
\u2014Rev. 2:7<\/i><\/p>\n
4090<\/b> Impossible, Ltd. <\/b><\/p>\n
A London film makes the impossible his business. When a restaurant owner came shopping for a genuine stagecoach to put outside his premises, the president of Impossible, Ltd., dug one up in an antique dealer\u2019s shop for $700. <\/p>\n
A newspaper columnist challenged the president of Impossible, David Whitehead, to come up with a half ton raisin-studded custard pudding. This may have been a first in the culinary trade, but two days after the challenge was issued, Whitehead had the pudding at the desk of the columnist. <\/p>\n
Whitehead charges his clients the cost of the \u201cImpossible\u201d article plus an extra 10 percent. He also heads a club where, for a yearly membership fee, the customer can order an item and not be charged for the search. <\/p>\n
4091<\/b> Michelangelo\u2019s Initial Refusal<\/b><\/p>\n
When Michelangelo was ordered to decorate the walls of the Sistine Chapel, he refused. He had never done any work of that kind, and said he could not do it. But he was told his refusal would not be accepted. When he discovered that there was no alternative without unpleasant consequences, he mixed his colors and went to work. And thus came into being the world\u2019s finest painting. <\/p>\n
There are few who realize what possibilities are locked up within them until some necessity compels them to attempt something they have always considered impossible. <\/p>\n
\u2014Friendly Chat<\/i><\/p>\n
4092<\/b> Engineer Won\u2019t Quit<\/b><\/p>\n
Engineers were called in to give their ideas on a possible railroad through the Andes Mountains. These men proclaimed the job as an impossible one. Then American engineers were called in to give their opinions whether the railroad could follow along the side of the River Rimac. Even these intrepid engineers claimed that it could not be done. As a last resort, a Polish engineer named Ernest Malinowshi was called in. Malinowshi\u2019s reputation as an engineer was well-known, but he was at that time in his sixtieth year, so the authorities feared to impose such a rigorous task on the man. <\/p>\n
Malinowshi assured the representatives of the various countries interested that the job could be done, and in his sixtieth year he started the highest railroad in the world. <\/p>\n
The railroad began to worm its way across the Andes from Peru with sixty-two tunnels and thirty bridges along its way. One tunnel ran 4,000 feet in length, 15,000 feet above the level of the sea. Twice, revolutions in some of the countries through which the railroad passed, held up construction. Once Malinowshi had to flee Peru and remain in exile for a time\u2014but nothing deterred this aging Pole in completing the engineering feat that became one of the wonders of the world in 1880. <\/p>\n
\u2014Future<\/p>\n
4093<\/b> Not A French Word<\/b><\/p>\n
Napoleon proposed to cross the bridge at Lodi in the face of the Austrian batteries that swept it. \u201cIt is impossible,\u201d said one of his officers, \u201cthat any men can force their way across that narrow bridge in the face of such an annihilating storm of balls as must be encountered.\u201d \u201cHow impossible?\u201d exclaimed Napoleon. \u201cThat word is not French.\u201d He himself, bearing a standard, was the second across. <\/p>\n
4094<\/b> Car Salesman Didn\u2019t Know<\/b><\/p>\n
Norval Hawkins, the first Ford sales manager, used to tell about a car salesman in South Dakota who was \u201ctoo dumb to be afraid of tradition.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBack in those days,\u201d said Hawkins, \u201cpeople didn\u2019t drive cars in the winter. They put them up on jacks. Consequently, dealers made no car sales. They just about shut up shop for half the year. But one small dealer in South Dakota kept sending in orders right through the winter. I went to see him. He was a big, awkward, gangling, farmerlike youngster who confessed that he just didn\u2019t know he wasn\u2019t supposed to sell cars in the winter time!\u201d<\/p>\n
This gave Hawkins an idea. He lashed his dealer organization to keep after winter sales. Now, January is a peak month for motor sales. <\/p>\n
\u2014Maxwell Droke<\/p>\n
4095<\/b> Impossible Takes Longer<\/b><\/p>\n
Charles F. Kettering, the noted scientist and inventor, believed the easiest way to overcome defeat was to ignore completely the possibility of failure. <\/p>\n
Once he was developing this theme in an address delivered at Denison University, Granville, Ohio. He told how he had once given a tough assignment to a young research worker at the General Motors laboratory. Just to see how he would react to a difficult problem, Mr. Kettering forbade him to examine notes on the subject that were filed in the library. These notes were written by expert research men and contained statistics to prove that the assignment was impossible. The young research worker did not know this, of course, so he went to work with confidence that he would succeed. <\/p>\n
He did succeed, too. He didn\u2019t know it couldn\u2019t be done\u2014so he did it. <\/p>\n
\u2014Good Business<\/i><\/p>\n
4096<\/b> \u201cIncurable\u201d Disease<\/b><\/p>\n
Charles Kettering, the famous research scientist, is impatient with people who speak of insurmountable obstacles. \u201cIt is like the doctors with their incurable diseases,\u201d he says. \u201cDid you ever stop to think what an incurable disease is? It is one the doctor doesn\u2019t know how to cure.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Dutton<\/p>\n
4097<\/b> Slide Rules Outlawed<\/b><\/p>\n
When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a problem solved, I\u2019d place a table outside the meeting room with a sign: \u201cLeave slide rules here.\u201d If I didn\u2019t do that, I\u2019d find some engineer reaching for his slide rule. Then he\u2019d be on his feet saying, \u201cBoss, you can\u2019t do it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Charles F. Kettering<\/p>\n
4098<\/b> The Safety-Glass<\/b><\/p>\n
When Henry Ford wanted safety-glass for one of his new models, he went to his tried and tested engineers for help. All 130 of them knew too many reasons why safety-glass could not be produced. <\/p>\n
Finally, a young engineer, who knew no reason why it couldn\u2019t be done, set to work and developed safety-glass. <\/p>\n
4099<\/b> Improving The Light Bulb<\/b><\/p>\n
Years ago new engineers in the lamp division of General Electric were assigned the impossible task, as a joke, of frosting bulbs on the inside. Each perspiring neophyte forgave the snickers greeting his failure. One day, however, Marvin Pipkin was initiated and he not only found a way to frost bulbs on the inside but developed an etching acid which gave minutely-rounded pits instead of sharp depressions, thus materially strengthening each bulb. No one had told him it couldn\u2019t be done, and he took it so seriously that he did it. <\/p>\n
\u2014Harry Mckown<\/p>\n
4100<\/b> Another Set Of Experts<\/b><\/p>\n
Once David Ben-Gurion, Premier of Israel, was told that a certain desert development problem was insolvable. Even quantities of water would not provide the solution. The experts said so, and that seemed to be that. The Premier, however, took a more forceful approach. \u201cLet\u2019s look for another set of experts,\u201d he suggested. The work went on. <\/p>\n
\u2014New York Times<\/i><\/p>\n
4101<\/b> Sikorsky\u2019s Helicopter<\/b><\/p>\n
When Igor Sikorsky was a lad of twelve, his parents told him that competent authorities had already proved human flight impossible. Yet Sikorsky built the first helicopter. And in his American plant he posted this sign: \u201cAccording to recognized aerotechnical tests, the bumblebee cannot fly because of the shape and weight of his body in relation to the total wing area. The bumblebee doesn\u2019t know this, so he goes ahead and flies anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014James Hastings<\/p>\n
4102<\/b> Contradictory News<\/b><\/p>\n
A New York evening paper on Saturday, May 21, 1927, the date of Lindbergh\u2019s flight, contained on one of the inside pages an elaborate demonstration by some expert showing that Lindbergh could not make his goal. But the first page of that paper, printed later, had flung across the top of it in gigantic letters the news that Lindbergh had arrived. <\/p>\n
4103<\/b> Elijah\u2019s \u201cImpossible\u201d Feat<\/b><\/p>\n
Some people raise their eyebrows when they read concerning Elijah the Prophet that \u201che girded up his loins, and ran before the chariot of Ahab to the entrance Jezreel!\u201d (I Kings 18:46), a dis tance of some 30 miles. <\/p>\n
But, according to \u201cIt Happened in Canada,\u201d in 1865 \u201cPeter Loler, a Maliseet Indian, angered by the refusal of a stagecoach driver to allow him to ride from Fredericton to Woodstock, New Brunswick, a distance of 60 miles, vowed to get there before the coach. Racing ahead of the four-horse teams (they had to be changed four times en route), Loler tore into Woodstock five minutes ahead of the coach.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Prairie Overcomer<\/i><\/p>\n
4104<\/b> Founder Of Cunard Lines<\/b><\/p>\n
It was Samuel Cunard, of Glasgow, who was determined to build ships. He had nothing but a penknife, and he whittled out little boats. He was a poor boy, but he was ever examining ships. He loved ships, and when he loved them enough his future was all settled. Sam Cunard was an unknown young man, when they asked him for the design of the first Cunard steamship. <\/p>\n
\u2014Current Anecdotes<\/p>\n
4105<\/b> She Did What She Couldn\u2019t<\/b><\/p>\n
Rev. John Henry Jowett once told of a little graveyard beside a church in a small village where the memory of a devoted soul, who had spent herself freely and untiringly in the service of that small community, is enshrined in a brief and touching epitaph, \u201cShe has done what she couldn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Eugene A. Hessel<\/p>\n
4106<\/b> Epigram On Overcoming<\/b><\/p>\n
\u2022 Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve. <\/p>\n
\u2014Napoleon Hill<\/p>\n
\u2022 There are three kinds of people in the world, the wills, the won\u2019ts and the can\u2019ts. The first accomplish everything; the second oppose everything; the third fail in everything. <\/p>\n
\u2022 The greatest achievements of mankind have been accomplished by two types of men\u2014those who were smart enough to know it could be done, and those too dumb to know it couldn\u2019t. <\/p>\n
\u2014Oakland Tribune<\/i><\/p>\n
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