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those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those doing it

those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those doing it proverb: people who dispute that a task is possible should not impede those people who attempt to do it.

Proverb

those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those doing it

  1. People who dispute that a task is possible should not impede those people who attempt to do it.

Origin of those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those doing it

Possibly from a Chicago newspaper in 1903: “Things move along so rapidly nowadays that people saying: ‘It can’t be done,’ are always being interrupted by somebody doing it.” https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/12/world/asia/ivanka-trump-china-summit-korea.html

Questions about those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those doing it

What does those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those doing it mean?
Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those doing it means people who dispute that a task is possible should not impede those people who attempt to do it.
What part of speech is those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those doing it?
Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those doing it is a proverb.

Words near those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those doing it in the dictionary

  1. those who have get more
  2. those who have, get
  3. those who have, get more
  4. those who live in glass houses should not throw stones
  5. those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
  6. those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those doing it
  7. those who will not when they may, when they will they shall have nay
  8. those're
  9. those've
  10. thoseness
  11. thost

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