Feasibility Quotes

• Doubts raced through my mind as I considered the feasibility of enforcing a law which the majority of honest citizens didn't seem to want.

  Eliot Ness

  Race, Law, Doubt

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• Good design successfully manages the tensions between user needs, technology feasibility, and business viability.

  Tim Brown

  Technology, Design, Needs

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• The stadium expansion is currently at the feasibility stage and has to go through that.

  David Gill

  Expansion, Stage, Stadiums

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• At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Inspirational, Hope, Believe

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “The Secret Garden”, p.297, Frances Hodgson Burnett

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• For people, 'here' signifies not merely a physical space, but also an historical space.

  Paulo Freire

  Space, People, Historical

  "'Pedagogia do oprimido' ('Pedagogy of the Oppressed')". Book by Paulo Freire, 1970.

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• Our work on light bulbs wasn't an arbitrary mandate. We didn't just pick a standard out of the air, or look for a catchy sounding standard like 25 by 2025 not based in science or feasibility. Instead, we worked with both industry and environmental groups to come up with a standard that made sense and was doable.

  Fred Upton

  Light, Air, Environmental

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• The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.

  Arnold Bennett

  Wise, Tea, May

  Arnold Bennett (2009). “How to Live on Twenty-four Hours a Day: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.13, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It is odd that we never question the feasibility of a football team practicing long hours for one game; yet in writing we rarely give ourselves the space for practice.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Football, Team, Writing

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.14, Shambhala Publications

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• How can you make informed decisions ... ? The key seems to be to gather experts who are knowledgeable and passionate about the subject matter, and have them cooperatively discuss a series of questions designed to explore the limits of technical feasibility.
  They must strive to reach the best decision rather than to persuade each other.

  Peter Norvig

  Keys, Decision, Experts

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• Defeatism about the feasibility of plans for disarmament and ordered peace has been the most calamitious of all the errors made by democratic governments in modern times.

  Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker

  Peace, Errors, Government

  "The Arms Race". Book by Philip Noel-Baker, 1958.

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• Can the vast technology beneath our gaze be anything but a representation? Any optical artifact... The city panorama is a theoretical (ie visual) simulacrum: in short, a picture, of which the preconditions for feasibility are forgetfulness and a misunderstanding of processes.

  Michel de Certeau

  Technology, Cities, Process

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