Background
The story's "signature phrases" such as "I think I can" first occurred in print in a 1902 article in a Swedish journal. An early published version of the story, "Story of the Engine that Thought It Could", appeared in the New York Tribune, 8 April 1906, as part of a sermon by the Rev. Charles S. Wing.
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Thinking One Can
You can download the clip or download a player to play the clip in your browser. A 2011 reading of "Thinking One Can" (1906, unattributed) (1 min 37 sec) Read more about this topic: The Little Engine That Could Famous quotes containing the word background:“... every experience in life enriches one’s background and should teach valuable lessons.” “Pilate with his question “What is truth?” is gladly trotted out these days as an advocate of Christ, so as to arouse the suspicion that everything known and knowable is an illusion and to erect the cross upon that gruesome background of the impossibility of knowledge.” “They were more than hostile. In the first place, I was a south Georgian and I was looked upon as a fiscal conservative, and the Atlanta newspapers quite erroneously, because they didn’t know anything about me or my background here in Plains, decided that I was also a racial conservative.” |