New Possibilities Quotes

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  What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them?

  Jane Addams

  Race, Failing, Possibility

  Jane Addams (2010). “Peace and Bread in Time of War”, p.85, University of Illinois Press

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• Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

  Gloria Steinem

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Why the Internet Is Full of Feminist Quotes Falsely Attributed to Gloria Steinem" by Ruth Graham, www.slate.com. October 05, 2017.

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• Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Real, Imagination, Limits

  "Rising in the World: Or, Architects of Fate; a Book Designed to Inspire Youth to Character-building, Self-culture and Noble Achievement".

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• Every new day begins with possibilities.

  Ronald Reagan

  New Day, Possibility

  Ronald Reagan (1985). “The Geneva summit: a fresh start”

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• It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.

  Les Brown

  Dream, Courage, Vision

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• To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

  Albert Einstein

  Real, Creativity, Science

  Albert Einstein, Leopold Infeld (1966). “Evolution of Physics”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

  Jean Houston

  Positive, Happiness, Gratitude

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• Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.

  Emma Goldman

  Change, Race, Vision

  Emma Goldman (1998). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”

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• Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

  Gloria Steinem

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

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  Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

  Francis of Assisi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  President Gellhaus’ Speech, annualmeeting.acog.org. 2016.

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• The function of entrepreneurs is to reform or revolutionize the pattern of production by exploiting an invention or, more generally, an untried technological possibility for producing a new commodity or producing an old one in a new way, by opening up a new source of supply of materials or a new outlet for products, by reorganizing an industry and so on.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Opening Up, Entrepreneur, Reform

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.132, Routledge

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• You begin with the possibilities of the material.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Art, Architecture, Possibility

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• The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.

  Albert Einstein

  Math, Thinking, Imagination Creativity

  Albert Einstein, Leopold Infeld (1966). “Evolution of Physics”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• EXPLORING the world is one of the best ways of exploring the mind, and walking travels both terrains.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Exploring The World, Mind, Way

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.16, Penguin

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• Forgiveness offers the possibility of two types of peace: peace of mind - the potential healing of old emotional wounds, and peace with others - the possibility of new, more gratifying relationships in the future.

  Kenneth Pargament

  Healing, Emotional, Two

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• Spiritual growth increases our sense of what's possible. And as we sense new possibility, we can step into that possibility. With every word, every thought, every action, we choose what we wish to call forth in life.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Growth, Wish

  Marianne Williamson (2009). “The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.24, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When the original is well chosen and judiciously copied, the imitator often arrives at excellence which he could never have attained without direction; for few are formed with abilities to discover new possibilities of excellence, and to distinguish themselves by means never tried before.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mean, Excellence, Influence

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.23

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• Your inspiration taps hidden reserves of promise that sustain people through times that induce despair. You enable people to envision a future that sustains the best from their past while also holding out new possibilities.

  Ronald A. Heifetz

  Inspiration, Past, People

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• You rarely achieve finality. If you did, life would be over, but as you strive new visions open before you, new possibilities for the satisfaction of living.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Vision, Would Be, Satisfaction

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• It's not only moving that creates new starting points. Sometimes all it takes is a subtle shift in perspective, an opening of the mind, an intentional pause and reset, or a new route to start to see new options and new possibilities.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Moving, Perspective, Mind

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• Any new possibility that existence acquires, even the least likely, transforms everything about existence.

  Milan Kundera

  Possibility, Existence, Acquire

  "Slowness". Book by Milan Kundera, 1995.

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• A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating.

  Ai Weiwei

  Mean, Historical, Ethics

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• The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer. Today, scholars no longer limit themselves to the three dimensions of Euclid. The painters have been lead quite naturally, one might say by intuition, to preoccupy themselves with the new possibilities of spatial measurement which, in the language of the modern studios, are designated by the term fourth dimension.

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Art, Intuition, Today

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• Designers can show us a better future, can present us with all kinds of new possibilities so that we can decide: Is this what we want? Before any of that can happen, though, the designer must first commit—by taking what is just a faint glimmer in the mind’s eye and giving it shape and life.

  Warren Berger

  Eye, Giving, Mind

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• Some people say we can never achieve our special destiny, but I say, in a world of new possibilities guided by goodness, we can and we will.

  Bill Bradley

  Destiny, People, Special

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