what's impossible

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

"I know what's impossible; what's possible, I don't know," Shkelzen Maliqi, director of the Center for Humanistic Studies said as he contemplated a strong cup of espresso in a cafe in Pristina.

Think what's possible, not what's impossible.

They surprise us with the improbable – they don't know what's impossible.

The single most powerful element of youth is our inability to know what's impossible.

As the world changes, those who pretend to have all the answers are often left in the dust by those who don't realize what's impossible.

They already know what's impossible.

In an age when military personnel sitting in a trailer outside Las Vegas can pilot a drone to rain death-by-joystick on terrorists in Pakistan, what's really impossible?

(If I do, try this: In an I.R.V. election, if a candidate has a majority of first votes, that candidate is elected — because, er, he or she has a majority of first votes. What's mathematically impossible about that?) Perhaps the governor meant that if no candidate receives a majority of first choices, then — er, no candidate has received a majority of first choices.

It's pretty easy to use social media tools like SocialRank, Buffer, Sumo, and more to identify social influence and monitor performance, but what's nearly impossible to track is dark social — the communication through text, email, messaging, Slack, Skype, and so on that's becoming the majority of social communication.

Although everyone in the family tries to live with what's happened, it's impossible.

Without fail, the camera lens reflects what's too often impossible to notice while I'm trying to be fully present with my students.