Permalink: English Proverb
The proverb claims that constraint drives invention, which is a useful corrective to the idea that ideas arrive first. It is also the kind of saying that gets quoted after the fact, when a shortage has already been solved.
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
It is not what you know that matters, but what you do with what you know.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.