quotes about Possibility
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One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities.
-- Abraham Maslow -
Connecting expands possibilities - in work and in life - for ourselves as well as for others.
-- Adele Scheele -
Never abandon the possibility of attack. Attack even from a position of inferiority, to disrupt the enemy's plans. This often results in improving one's own position.
-- Adolf GallandSource : "The First and the Last". Book by Adolf Galland, 1954.
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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
-- Adrienne Rich -
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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It's not 'if;' it's 'how.'
-- Aimee Mullins -
Abroad, they have covered pretty much all subjects, explored every possibility, every twist. So similarities between ideas you have and those filmed abroad are quite possible.
-- Ajay Devgan -
When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring. In short, we find the faith of leap.
-- Alan Hirsch -
There was a big possibility that I would have had to leave Newcastle had Ruud Gullit stayed as manager.
-- Alan Shearer -
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The world is so full of possibilities that dogmatism is simply indecent.
-- Albert Einstein -
We must contemplate some extremely unpleasant possibilities, just because we want to avoid them.
-- Albert Wohlstetter -
Our minds can come up with the most entertaining possibilities, if we let them. But most of the time, we keep them under far too close a check.
-- Alexander McCall Smith -
The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
-- Alice Walker -
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My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.
-- Alice Walker -
In creation alone there is the possibility of perfection.
-- Anais Nin -
To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.
-- Anatole Broyard -
The possibilities. Is there any greater pain to know what could be, and yet be powerless to make it be?
-- Andrew Sean Greer -
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Sometimes you have to open yourself to the random possibilities of, I guess, destiny.
-- Andrew W.K.Source : Source: www.usatoday.com
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By not sharing our interests, talents and abilities, we limit our possibilities.
-- Angela Burt-Murray -
When I am willing to step into the realm of uncertainty and ambiguity, I open myself up to infinite possibilities.
-- Anita Moorjani -
the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.
-- Anita Shreve -
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When there is nothing, there is the possibility of everything.
-- Ann Brashares -
They will open up to what I would call corporate broadcastings where the non-commercial material will have air time. There's no possibility of that here right now, none.
-- Ann Macbeth -
I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.
-- Anna Deavere Smith -
With science fiction there's endless possibilities.
-- Anna Torv -
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Invest in a feather duster - the possibilities are endless.
-- Anne Rice -
...I have great hopes for the possibility of a dynamic universalism that respects all our people.
-- Anthony Braxton -
Cinema has opened a world of possibilities up for me.
-- Antonio Banderas -
In corporation [corporate] religions as in others, the heretic must be cast out not because of the probability that he is wrong but because of the possibility that he is right.
-- Antony JaySource : Antony Jay (1994). “Management and Machiavelli: discovering a new science of management in the timeless principles of statecraft”, Jossey-Bass
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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
-- Aristotle -
A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
-- Aristotle -
Every minute that you save by making it useful, more profitable, is so much added to your life and its possibilities. Every minute lost is a neglected by-product - once gone, you will never get it back.
-- Arthur Brisbane -
It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
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So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilities.
-- Arthur RockSource : Interview with Rob Walker, silicongenesis.stanford.edu. November 12, 2002.
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Wearing a Democratic label no longer matches what I know about my country and its possibilities,
-- Artur DavisSource : "Artur Davis, Former Democratic Congressman, Will Switch Parties", www.huffingtonpost.com. May 30, 2012.
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It is amazing how, when all possibilities seem to be taken away from you, the minutest opening can become a great freedom.
-- Azar NafisiSource : Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.28, Random House
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Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.
-- Barbara Brown TaylorSource : FaceBook post by Barbara Brown Taylor from Nov 25, 2014
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Writers don't need to be given formulas; they need to be shown possibilities.
-- Barry Lane -
As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving.
-- Ben Kingsley -
My job is to awaken possibility in other people.
-- Benjamin Zander -
I make myself a relentless architect of the possibilities of human beings.
-- Benjamin Zander -
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Even in the realm of things which do not claim actuality, and do not even claim possibility, there exist beyond dispute sets which are infinite.
-- Bernard BolzanoSource : Bernard Bolzano (2014). “Paradoxes of the Infinite (Routledge Revivals)”, p.84, Routledge
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Open your mind to all possibilities and believe!
-- Bernie Siegel -
Most of my recorded material has been in small group configurations. I have not released large orchestral works as recordings because it hasn't been within the realm of possibility.
-- Bill Dixon -
There's so much music out there & so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument.
-- Bill Frisell -
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When you hand good people possibility, they do great things.
-- Biz Stone -
Monogamy is a possibility - and a necessity. Kids have got to have something they can rely on. You have got to have something you rely on.
-- Bob HoskinsSource : "This much I know: Bob Hoskins". Interview with Bob Hoskins, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2010.
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The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead -- big possibilities. Like the song says, We've just begun.
-- Bruce Lee -
I try not to bring in anything I don't love looking at. It's about restaint ... There is something about an unfinished quality that leaves within you that sense of possibility.
-- Caio Fonseca -
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I'm ready to do something with Lady Gaga or Andrea Bocelli. I'm really grateful that nothing is out of the realm of possibility.
-- Carlos Santana -
I can't say whether or not I'll ever get married again, but I'm open to the possibility.
-- Carmen Electra -
It is a world of startling possibilities.
-- Charles Fletcher DoleSource : Charles Fletcher Dole (1906). “The Hope of Immortality: Our Reasons for it”
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The possibilities of percussion sounds, I believe, have never been fully realized
-- Charles Ives -
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You can do anything, literally, right? That's one of the exciting possibilities of the present.
-- Charles Olson -
Ah! dear friend, you little know the possibilities which are in you.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
That humankind has fallen into the insanity of concensus trance, and lost touch with our true possibilities and functions is a tragedy.
-- Charles Tart -
There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.
-- Charlotte Bronte -
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The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.
-- Chauncey Depew -
Your possibilities are unlimited, but it all begins with the deliberate choice to think differently.
-- Chris GuillebeauSource : Chris Guillebeau (2010). “The Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your Own Rules, Live the Life You Want, and Change the World”, p.8, Penguin
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We decided to try in vitro, because both Peter and I felt we couldn't handle another failure. When I miscarried after that, we had to come to terms with the possibility that this wasn't meant to be.
-- Christie BrinkleySource : "Good Housekeeping" Magazine, Volume 226, 1998.
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I look for good possibilities in movies. I don't look for perfection.
-- Christopher WalkenSource : "A Mellow, Reflective Christopher Walken". The Seattle Times, October 18, 2004.
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We read to find life, in all its possibilities.
-- Claire Messud -
Acting was just outside of the realm of possibility for me. I grew up in L.A. and around Hollywood but I literally never, honestly, considered it.
-- Cody Horn -
Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.
-- Colum McCann -
Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.
-- Conrad Hall -
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Biology can be said to define possibilities but not determine them; it is never irrelevant but it is also not determinant.
-- Cordelia FineSource : Cordelia Fine (2005). “Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences”, p.122, Icon Books Ltd
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
-- Dale Dauten -
Every day we live is a priceless gift of God, loaded with possibilities to learn something new, to gain fresh insights.
-- Dale Evans -
The infinite possibilities. That's what used to do my nut in.
-- Damien Hirst -
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Recognize the possibility of the divine in any given moment.
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Another possibility is that evolution selected creativity in general as a marker of sexual fitness.
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But you need to have lived years in nothingness to understand how a person can suddenly become frightened by a possibility.
-- David FoenkinosSource : David Foenkinos (2011). “Delicacy”, p.140, A&C Black
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Scepticism and refusal of authority is at the heart of scientific endeavour. Scientific knowledge dictates economic possibilities
-- David Landes -
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But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more meaningful. I was going to be his friend, and was going to show him possibilities. And he, in turn, would become someone I could trust more than myself.
-- David Levithan -
It was rather awkward, insofar as we were both teetering between the possibility of something and the possibility of nothing.
-- David Levithan -
Every person is a possibility. The hopeless romantics feel it most acutely, but even for others, the only way to keep going is to see every person as a possibility.
-- David Levithan -
The process of painting offers an infinite array of possibilities. The closer in unification to just one of those, the better the painting becomes.
-- David Luiz -
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I place my intention into the vast ocean of all possibilities and allow the universe to work through me.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Every second of time is a doorway to unbounded possibilities. Yet if you are not open to them, these possibilities shrink.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Awareness is the birthplace of possibility. Everything you want to do, everything you want to be, starts here.
-- Deepak Chopra -
In my stillness I am the eternal possibility. In my movement I am the cosmos.
-- Deepak ChopraSource : FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Nov 09, 2011
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Based on the law of probability Everything is possible because The sheer existence of possibility Confirms the existence Of impossibility.
-- Dejan Stojanovic -
Beyond the deepest tragedy there is laughter; even in the midst of tragedy there is always the possibility for laughter.
-- Del Close -
Within every girl is the possibility of arousing emotion. Without emotion there is no beauty.
-- Diana Vreeland -
Footsteps in the snow suggest where you have been, point to where you were going: but when they suddenly vanish, never dismiss the possibility of flight...
-- Diane DuaneSource : Diane Duane (2003). “A Wizard Alone”, p.11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Best not to anticipate too much ... it jiggles the possibilities.
-- Donald Barthelme -
If you can't embrace both failure or the possibility of failure, or the tremendous fear of failure, you can't be wildly successful. It's just an axiomatic truth.
-- Donny Deutsch -
Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
-- Dorothea Lange -
Death without the possibility of ever changing the world is the same as a life that never was.
-- Douglas Coupland -
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Any art which can be subjected to an analytical process is, by this very fact, removed from the possibility of being art.
-- Douglas Portway -
When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.
-- Eckhart TolleSource : Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.166, Penguin
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The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
-- Edmund Wilson -
much of the possibility of being cheerful comes from the faculty of throwing oneself beyond oneself ...
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
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Every day holds the possibility of a miracle.
-- Elizabeth David -
Certainty is a cruel mindset. It hardens our minds against possibility.
-- Ellen LangerSource : Ellen J. Langer (2009). “Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility”, p.24, Ballantine Books
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Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.
-- Elliot W. Eisner -
The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.
-- Emily Dickinson -
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A confused mind is one that is open to the possibility of change.
-- Eric Weiner -
So I'm looking to the saxophone as a resource which has its own unique set of possibilities. I'm looking to exploit them and develop them and have the fullest range of possibilities of the saxophone be known.
-- Evan Parker -
I had been working in colour for ten years or so and looked at digital and liked the possibilities it gave me.
-- Fay Godwin -