Best 960 quotes in «possibility quotes» category

Our motive is not to prove our self-worth, but to live up to our possibilities.

Our patriarchal blessings are paragraphs from the book of our own possibilities.

Philosophy must indeed recognize the possibility that the people rise to it, but must not lower itself to the people.

Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.

Our time in this life is limited. And how we respect that time will create a greater possibility for fulfillment.

Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.

Possibilities swung from the ropes of his life like charms on a watch chain, golden.

Positivity doesn't just change the contents of your mind...It widens the span of possibilities that you see.

Possibilities don't add up, they multiply.

Possibility, infinity, beauty -- none of those words were right. [...] What he really wanted to say was: have you felt this? this phantom life streaking like a phosphorescent hound at the edges of your ruin?

Poetry's work is not simply the recording of inner or outer perception; it makes by words and music new possibilities of perceiving

Possibilities ...in the closet ...itching ...to break out ...but afraid of ...the fallout

Possibilities are completely different. When you ask 'what is possible?' you must stretch your imagination out of the confines of the familiar. To live a life beyond the mediocre, ask not 'what are my options?' but 'What is possible?'

Possibility is the oxygen upon which hope thrives.

Research, in nature’s laboratory, never stops. It explores every possibility. It never lacks funding. It is never demoralized by failed experiments. It cannot be lobbied.

Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.

Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction.

Scepticism and refusal of authority is at the heart of scientific endeavour. Scientific knowledge dictates economic possibilities

School is consonantal in its unchanging schedule. God, full of possibility, is a vowel. Death: the ultimate consonant.

[Science fiction is] the attempt to deal rationally with alternate possibilities in a manner which will be entertaining.

Science has made unrestricted national sovereignty incompatible with human survival. The only possibilities are now world government or death.

Relinquish your attachment to the known, step into the unknown, and you will step into the field of all possibilities

Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.

she considered the possibility of telling her about everything that was happening, but then she changed her mind; people never learn anything by being told; they have to find out for themselves.

Satan does not tempt us just to make us do wrong things- he tempts us to make us lose what God has put into us through regeneration, namely, the possibility of being of value to God.

See it better than it is or you have no future, without vision there is no possibility of improvement

Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.

So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilities.

She found herself thinking of how it would feel to be safely trapped in his arms, with no more possibility to choose.

Some string theorists prefer to believe that string theory is too arcane to be understood by human beings, rather than consider the possibility that it might just be wrong.

Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.

Spontaneity is an infinite number of rehearsed possibilities.

Start a conversation with someone with whom you have "nothing in common" and no possibility of scoring with, networking with, or even seeing again. In other words, a conversation just for the civilized hell of it.

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.

Subatomic particles exist in all possible states until they are observed - at which point something definite emerges from the soup of possibilities.

She was no closer to determining who might want her dead. There were just too many possibilities.

Success is not a straight line, it's much more of a dance and being open to possibilities.

...suddenly you hit on something that the student really responds to, you can see the eyes open and the complexion change. The life possibility has opened there. All you can say to yourself is, "I hope this child hangs on to that.

The anticipation of discovering new possibilities becomes my greatest joy.

Surviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited.

The act of leaning in to kiss someone, or asking them, is fraught with the possibility of rejection, so the person least likely to get rejected should do the leaning in or the asking.

The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.

Success is seldom achieved by people who contemplate the possibility of failure

The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art.

The best gift you can give yourself is the gift of possibility.

The biggest fear that I have is settling into too many set behavior patterns, where I feel like I'm no longer exploring possibilities anymore.

The disaster... is what escapes the very possibility of experience—it is the limit of writing. This must be repeated: the disaster de-scribes.

The characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented.

The child is an inner possibility, the possibility of renewal.

The essence of the question is the opening up, and keeping open, of possibilities.