The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
~By John Lennon ~
Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities.
~By Robert H. Schuller ~
We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.
~By Dale Carnegie ~
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
~By Mark Twain ~
The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in its development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever it has to make an important decision.
~By Wilhelm Dilthey ~
Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities.
~By Itzhak Perlman ~
Goodwill can be indicated in various ways. I raised that particular example because at that time I was in charge. Today, I'm not in a position to present other possibilities.
~By Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani ~
The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to stay alive, with its identity.
~By Nicholas Mosley ~
There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities.
~By Ray Charles ~
People began to understand that with the acquisition of California the nation had obtained practically half a continent, of which the future possibilities were almost unlimited, so far as the development of natural resources and the genera production of wealth were concerned.
~By John Moody ~
One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
~By Abraham Maslow ~
It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it.
~By Robert Musil ~
To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people.
~By Matthew Fox ~
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
~By Dale Carnegie ~
Invest in a feather duster - the possibilities are endless.
~By Anne Rice ~
It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.
~By Frank Zappa ~
Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen.
~By Charles W. Chesnutt ~
The nation did not begin to realize the extraordinary possibilities of the vast Western territory until its attention was thus suddenly and definitely concentrated on the Pacific by the annual addition of over fifty million dollars to the circulating medium.
~By John Moody ~
For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities.
~By Derrick Jensen ~
If you love your life, you have to fight. If you believe in life and progress and possibilities, you have no choice.
~By Michael Zaslow ~
The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart.
~By Anna Julia Cooper ~
A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.
~By Lyman Abbott ~
It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.
~By Les Brown ~
There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that stems from the reason people went out there in the first place-to find something new.
~By Esa-Pekka Salonen ~
Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.
~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.
~By Jim Morrison ~
The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.
~By Wilfrid Sheed ~
Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state.
~By Iain Banks ~
But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise.
~By Wayne Kramer ~
The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.
~By John Sculley ~
And when these advances are made, hydrogen can fill critical energy needs beyond transportation. Hydrogen can also be used to heat and generate electricity for our homes. The future possibilities of this energy source are enormous.
~By Dan Lipinski ~
The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
~By Hans Hofmann ~
Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.
~By Conrad Hall ~
You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.
~By Ralph Marston ~
To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.
~By Paul Valery ~
At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
~By Jean Houston ~
Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.
~By Norbert Wiener ~
Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.
~By George Saintsbury ~
At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks.
~By Mark Haddon ~
Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.
~By Alvar Aalto ~
I became almost immediately fascinated by the possibilities of trying out all conceivable reactions with them, some leading to explosions, others to unbearable poisoning of the air in our house, frightening my parents.
~By Richard Ernst ~
Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be part of a tradition, but he didn't consider himself part of a tradition.
~By Bill Laswell ~
But I don't bet the farm on any of those possibilities, either. I'm also preparing, intelligently, to walk away from this, and walk away from it happy to have had the experience.
~By Michael Shanks ~
We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
~By Ansel Adams ~
You can do anything, literally, right? That's one of the exciting possibilities of the present.
~By Charles Olson ~
Explore your mind, discover yourself, then give the best that is in you to your age and to your world. There are heroic possibilities waiting to be discovered in every person.
~By Wilferd A. Peterson ~
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
~By Harry Emerson Fosdick ~
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.
~By Vernor Vinge ~
Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.
~By Franz Kafka ~
And we will accept the creation of the Iberian Federation of a socialist republic which will give each region the right to construct its life in accordance with its economic possibilities and political preponderance.
~By Frederica Montseny ~
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.
~By Shunryu Suzuki ~
What is important is not what someone is but what he is waiting for. Not the events of life but its possibilities.
~By Dorothee Solle ~
I had been working in colour for ten years or so and looked at digital and liked the possibilities it gave me.
~By Fay Godwin ~
The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.
~By James Baldwin ~
We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.
~By Thomas Paine ~
In short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life, if we simply live a neutral existence.
~By Armstrong Williams ~
Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
~By Jean de La Fontaine ~
We really love all sports, but we don't think in the long term. The reason we did Kingpin was because there was a script we really liked and we saw the possibilities.
~By Peter Farrelly ~
But basically what I like are the possibilities, and the fantasy element of the show. Not science fantasy so much, but fantasy, the humanistic elements and how people relate when they're in a dire situation or comedic situation.
~By Fisher Stevens ~
Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system of values for a new age.
~By Frank Pittman ~
I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a people. I think that jazz is a spectacularly accurate model of democracy and a kind of look into our redemptive future possibilities.
~By Ken Burns ~
No, I think the future of humanity will be like the past, we'll do what we've always done and there will still be human beings. Granted, there will always be people doing something different and there are a lot of possibilities.
~By Octavia Butler ~
Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity.
~By Jack Bowman ~
So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilities.
~By Arthur Rock ~
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Doing any job for too long limits your possibilities.
~By Michael Zaslow ~
It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.
~By Anish Kapoor ~
I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York.
~By Karen Allen ~
The possibilities are endless for me - Broadway, TV, music and film.
~By Michelle Williams ~
The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.
~By Sydney Smith ~
That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.
~By Sheryl Crow ~
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.
~By Alfred Stieglitz ~
The possibilities in sci-fi are wonderful. The subject is bigger than everything we know.
~By Joel Gretsch ~
It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done.
~By Bishop Robert South ~
We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.
~By James W. Fulbright ~
I am never wrong when it comes to my possibilities.
~By Placido Domingo ~
Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.
~By Mason Cooley ~
The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
~By George Eliot ~
You begin with the possibilities of the material.
~By Robert Rauschenberg ~
As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to it to appraise it but too much formed by it and enclosed within it to do so.
~By Emily Greene Balch ~
If I was on a march at the moment I would be saying to everyone: 'Be honest with each other. Admit there are limitless possibilities in relationships, and love as many people as you can in whatever way you want, and get rid of your inhibitions, and we'll all be happy.
~By Ian Mckellen ~
As for the future, we are equally determined to explore all possibilities of getting rid, once and for all, of the huge Arab minority which originally threatened us.
~By Moshe Sharett ~
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
~By Albert Einstein ~
It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with.
~By William Wiley ~
There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players. Not to say that it is not important to listen to guitar players, but there's so much music out there and so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument.
~By Bill Frisell ~
My parents gave me stability and a belief in myself and in all the possibilities life has to offer. I was told the only limitations I would ever face were those I placed upon myself.
~By Dionne Warwick ~
We have built a genuine level of enthusiasm and goodwill with people throughout this district. People are really excited about the possibilities this election holds, not just for this district, but because of the message Alabama sent to the rest of the country.
~By Artur Davis ~
However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.
~By Lewis Mumford ~
But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.
~By Seamus Heaney ~
Once again, I think there is little art being done that really owns up to such intense possibilities.
~By Peter Sotos ~
I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings.
~By Robert Rauschenberg ~
I owe a debt of gratitude to two other living Justices. Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg paved the way for me and so many other women in my generation. Their pioneering lives have created boundless possibilities for women in the law. I thank them for their inspiration and also for the personal kindnesses they have shown me.
~By Elena Kagan ~
It seems everything is so full of possibilities one can hardly take it all in.
~By Kenneth Koch ~
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
~By Aristotle ~
There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the television set.
~By Harriet Van Horne ~
It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them.
~By Robert Musil ~
Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities.
~By Terry Josephson ~
As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion.
~By Jasper Johns ~
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