Best 960 quotes in «possibility quotes» category

I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual.

Ideology... is a kind of contemporary mythology, a realm which has purged itself of ambiguity and alternative possibility.

I don't rule out the possibility of legislating a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, a market-based mechanism.

I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable.

I don't want to be an icon. I want to be an idea. I want to represent possibilities.

I don't think about what I can't do or what I shouldn't be doing. I just think there are endless possibilities musically, really.

I don't think that necessarily I was encouraged by the nuns and the priest to consider alternate possibilities to the universe.

I dwell in possibilities... a fairer house than prose.

I feel that I am doing the minimum amount of damage to other possibilities that may take place in a reader's head.

If a socialist economy is opened up to increasing degrees of market forces, a point will be reached at which democratic governance becomes a possibility.

I feel like I haven't done my best work yet. I feel like there's a world of possibilities out there.

I feel quite excited about the possibility of working on multiple albums. There's something really iconic about having a catalog featuring a lot of albums, and I'd love to have that legacy.

I feel worried, deeply worried, only about one thing - the possibility that we fall... that we cannot avoid an atomic war.

I feel like I go back and forth between being fairly fatalistic and really more hopeful about the possibilities of things changing. And will see how that goes in this election cycle. That will probably strongly affect how fatalistic I am.

If everyone worked with wide-angle lenses, I'd shoot all my films in 75mm, because I believe very strongly in the possibilities of the 75mm.

If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.

If pornographers are among the early adopters of the new technology, then it has definite commercial possibilities.

If I had been told to get out of the street as a teenager, there would have been a distinct possibility that I might have smarted off. But, I wouldn’t have expected to be shot.

If I were to think of and dwell on disastrous possibilities, I could do nothing. I throw myself headlong into my work, and come up again with my studies.

If there are possibilities for strengthening investments, they will not fail because of us. Emmanuel Macron is right when he says that we need to do more and talk less.

If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.

If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it?

If things are too similar, the dialogue is not very interesting. If you put in contrast, big and small, abstract and representational, you set up the possibility of a discourse.

If there's any possibility for enlightenment, it's right now, not at some future time. Now is the time.

If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life is destroyed.

If we have received a precious gift from God, it is our imagination. When we tap into our powers of imagination, we are bombs of possibilities.

If you don't allow yourself the possibility of writing something very, very bad, it would be hard to write something very good.

If you can influence the outcome, do the work. If you can't influence the outcome, ignore the possibility. It's merely a distraction.

If you don't have the possibility of listening to music, you can't know if you love it.

If we see only the problems, we will be defeated; but if we see the possibilities in the problems, we can have victory.

If you allow for the possibilities of something better, you move toward it instinctively.

If you are not grieving, you are not conscious. But if you are not rejoicing in the possibilities of how this could all change, then you are not looking through the filter of the greatest spiritual perspicacity.

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.

If you're not trying to do something better, then you're not focused on the customer and you'll miss the possibility of making your business great.

If you're any kind of artist, you've got to ... keep opening yourself to new possibilities.

If you so choose, even the unexpected setbacks can bring new and positive possibilities. If you so choose, you can find value and fulfillment in every circumstance.

If you want to minimize the possibility of unexpected breakthroughs, tell people they will receive no resources at all unless they spend the bulk of their time competing against each other to convince you they know in advance what they are going to discover.

I have never had much trouble simultaneously entertaining diametrically opposed propositions, and welcome the possibility that this is not because I have one mind and am out of it, but because I have lots of them, all beavering away on their own.

I grew up in the Midwest; you don't know any screenwriters. It didn't seem like a realistic career possibility.

I had a $1.50 from playing the ukulele after owning it seven minutes. I thought, "Hmmm, this has some possibilities.

I had never imagined myself doing [wrestling]. Once I came to the realization that it was a possibility, I just tried to concentrate on what I thought people would enjoy.

I hate the fearful trimming of possibilities that age brings.

I have been practicing, with scientific precision, nonviolence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years.

I haven't given up on the possibility that sweet reason will prevail.

I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.

I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions.

...I have great hopes for the possibility of a dynamic universalism that respects all our people.

I have read of women who have been strongly, grandly brave. Sometimes I have dreamed that I might be brave. The possibilities of this life are magnificent.

I have often wondered and even laughed at those who fancied that everything had been so consummately and absolutely investigated by an Aristotle or a Galen or some other mighty name, that nothing could by any possibility be added to their knowledge.

I love you not for the person you are, but for your possibilities.