If somebody tells you that you can't do something, you say, "Yes I can, because I'm doing it right now!"
A thousand years ago the only people on earth were monkeys, and they said "We'll never walk erectus. We'll never use tools. We'll never talk." and then one monkey said, "Oh, yeah? Well, I'm talking right now." That monkey was a dreamer.
Fast forward 500 years. The Wright Brothers decide to make themselves a flying machine. "You fools! You idiots! What's your problem?" everyone shouted. "That will never work, because plywood weighs more than air." To which the Wright Brothers responded, "No. It doesn't." The Wright Brothers were dreamers.
The Earl of Sandwich and Sir Francis Bacon. Had it not been for them, the BLT would merely be lettuce and tomahto. They were dreamers. And sandwich makers.
Vincent Van Gogh: everyone told him,"you only have one ear. You cannot be a great artist." And you know what he said? "I can't hear you." Vincent Van Gogh was a dreamer.
Louie Pasteur turned cheese into medicine.
Benjamin Franklin. People said, "You can't fly a kite in a rainstorm," and Ben Franklin said, "Yes, you can, if you have an electric kite."
A man who broke more bones than any man in history, Evel Knievel.
And who might this handsome young lad be? Tim Conrad. He believes that someday he will marry the girl of his dreams, even though every time he asks, she says no, and even though, as we speak, she is probably having sex with a handsome artist. Tim Conrad is a dreamer.
So dare to dream. Dream your wildest dreams. You can climb the highest mountain. You can drown in a teacup, if you find a big enough teacup.
And if somebody tells you that you can't do something, you say, "Yes I can, because I'm doing it, right now!"
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