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"When the Bough Breaks" (15 February 1988) by Hannah Louise Shearer; On persistence. See also: The middle of Youtube Video "Captain Picard: The Role Model We Need" (16.06.2021) by user "Ryan's Edits".
Jean-Luc Picard: Good. The only person you're truly competing against, Wesley, is yourself.
Wesley Crusher: Then you're not disappointed?
Jean-Luc Picard: Wesley, you have to measure your successes and your failures within, not by anything I or anyone else might think.
• "Coming of Age" (14 March 1988) by Sandy Fries
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Things are only impossible until they're not!

— Jean-Luc Picard

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Things are only impossible until they're not!" in the context of ""When the Bough Breaks" (15 February 1988) by Hannah Louise Shearer; On persistence. See also: The middle of Youtube Video "Captain Picard: The Role Model We Need" (16.06.2021) by user "Ryan's Edits".
Jean-Luc Picard: Good. The only person you're truly competing against, Wesley, is yourself.
Wesley Crusher: Then you're not disappointed?
Jean-Luc Picard: Wesley, you have to measure your successes and your failures within, not by anything I or anyone else might think.
• "Coming of Age" (14 March 1988) by Sandy Fries" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

Source: Wikiquote: "Jean-Luc Picard" (Quotes, Star Trek: The Next Generation) The 'What it means' explanation text was generated by Google Gemini Flash (accessed January 18, 2026). https://gemini.google.com/app

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About Jean-Luc Picard

Jean-Luc Picard (13 July 2305–) is a character in the Star Trek fictional universe, the captain of the USS Enterprise-D and the Enterprise-E. He was played by British actor Patrick Stewart in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, the subsequent films and the streaming television series Star Trek: Picard.