Theme of Zoom Meeting: Impossibilities
© 2021 by Richard E. Gordon Last updated: August 8, 2021
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Questions:
1. What’s your definition of impossibility?
2. What human accomplishments were once thought to be impossible?
3. What reality have you read about lately that you once viewed as impossible?
4. Can you predict some things now considered impossible that you think someday may be proven possible? How about the longevity of humans to stretch beyond 200 years?
5. Have you accomplished something you once thought was beyond your reach?
6. What personal belief may you have had in the past that you felt was impossible to change, and yet, in time, you came to transform this past impossibility into a personal conviction you now hold dear?
7. How does the expression “Keep an open mind,” relate to present impossibilities?
8. Are there any realities in our present political situation that you once viewed as impossible?
9. Is it possible for a blind climber to use his tongue to view his way up a mountain side?
10. How about the possibility for a blind person to be a successful architect? Or an artist?
11. If you could change one present impossibility into a reality, what would that impossibility be?
12. Can you think up another question on impossibilities that you would like to see discussed?
13. What’s one new idea that has blossomed in your mind as a result of our discussion?
1. “It always seems impossible until it's done.” – Nelson Mandela
2. “There's nothing that's really impossible. Lots of things seem impossible, but sometimes they're not if you just keep plugging away.” – Scott Adams
3. “Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion.” –Muhammad Ali
4. “When you set your sights on what may seem impossible, you somehow live your way into much more than you ever dreamed could be true for you.” Susan Biali, M.D.
5. “Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.” – Louis Brandeis
“If nature has taught us
anything it is that the impossible is probable”
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7. “When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.” – Arthur C. Clarke
“Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is 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.”―
“It is humanly impossible to be selfless. As a matter of fact, human beings are inherently selfish.” ―
“The happy life is impossible without finding an answer to the question Why am I here? What am I doing here?” ―
11. A propensity to dream impossible dreams is like other powerful tendencies—okay when kept in check.” – From the 2017 article in the Atlantic magazine “How America Lost Its Mind”.
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