„I bet you can't eat ten bananas!"
"I bet you're right.“
— Sarah Dessen, buch This Lullaby
Quelle: This Lullaby
„… If you can't think because you can't chew, try a banana“
2000. Lee was responding to a BBC reporter who suggested that Singapore's draconian laws (including the ban on chewing gum) could stifle the people's creativity. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/820234.stm
2000s
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— Richard Feynman American theoretical physicist 1918 - 1988
Video interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lytxafTXg6c dated 1963
„Before you say you can't do something, try it.“
— Kiichiro Toyoda Japanese businessman 1894 - 1952
Attributed to Sakichi and Kiichiro Toyoda in: Emi Osono, Norihiko Shimizu, Hirotaka Takeuchi (2008), Extreme Toyota: Radical Contradictions That Drive Success at the World's Best Manufacturer. p. 86
„Surrounded by army, you think you're going to die. You can't shower because they'll find you nude.“
— Martin Firrell British artist and activist 1963
"Six Women" (2007)
„You can't save everyone, though God knows you try.“
— Richelle Mead, Shadow Kiss
Quelle: Shadow Kiss
„Stop trying to save me. You couldn't then; you can't now.“
— Julie Anne Peters American writer 1952
Quelle: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
„When you think long-term, the edge is really investing because others can't know.“
— Andy Kessler American writer 1958
Part I, Raising Funds, Hedgies, p. 27.
Running Money (2004) First Edition
"On Monsieur Coué", Epigram in The Week-end Book (1928), p. 217.
„You can't have filenames longer than 14 chars. You can't even think about them!“
— Larry Wall American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl 1954
Source code, <code>Configure</code>
„not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse.“
— Charles Bukowski American writer 1920 - 1994
Quelle: The Last Night of the Earth Poems
„Whether you think you can, or you think you can't — you're right.“
— Henry Ford American industrialist 1863 - 1947
„If you think you can, you can. If you think you can't, you're right.“
— Mary Kay Ash Entrepreneur 1918 - 2001
Variante: If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can not, you are right.
„If you think you can you can, if you think you can't you're right!“
— Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the United States 1809 - 1865
