Thursday, April 26, 2018

The Impossible Takes a Little Longer


“The difficult we do immediately. The impossible takes a little longer.”

The phrases has been linked to the French statesman Charles Alexandre de Calonne in response to a question posed by Marie Antoinette, the American essayist George Santayana, the Norwegian polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen, and the Seabees, as well as other branches of the military.

I don’t really care who first said it.  I am just happy to have first seen it on a favorite teacher’s wall some fifty- odd years ago.

It’s the only thing I can actually quote verbatim from 7th grade.
 
But it’s enough.

So I’ll just thank a teacher.

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