Possibility Quotes - Page 22

• To propel our Louisiana culture into the future seems to be quite a task, but if one lives for the music as Cedric does, the path seems effortless. These songs may well be early brushstrokes of a life's worth of possibilities, not only for himself, but also for the identity survival of a culture.

  Michael Doucet

  Song, Survival, Identity

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• When I asked Robert Spitzer about the possibility that he'd inadvertently created a world in which ordinary behaviours were being labelled mental disorders, he fell silent. I waited for him to answer. But the silence lasted three minutes. Finally he said, 'I don't know.

  Jon Ronson

  Silence, Ordinary, Three

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• I may well do some more polemical writing, if a subject that fires me up comes along. Apart from that possibility, I would like to continue to tell stories so long as I have stories to tell.

  Louis Begley

  Writing, Fire, Long

  Interview with David B. Green, www.haaretz.com. January 3, 2010.

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• I was saying yes because when you're in love, the world is full of possibilities, and when you're in love, you want to take every single one of them.

  Danny Wallace

  Love You, Saying Yes, World

  Danny Wallace (2010). “Yes Man”, p.279, Simon and Schuster

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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 Fine

  Biology, Said, Determine

  Cordelia Fine (2005). “Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences”, p.122, Icon Books Ltd

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• Galactica has infinite possibilities. In fact, my character may be abnormal in the sense that she may be more independent than most of the women in classic space adventures.

  Maren Jensen

  Adventure, Character, Independent

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• 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

  Acting, Hollywood, Grew Up

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• Sometimes men pick fights just for something to do-just to feel something like the threat of harm and the possibility of triumph.

  Jack Donovan

  Fighting, Men, Triumph

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• Nothing is more paralyzing than the idea of limitless possibilities.

  Austin Kleon

  Ideas, Limitless Possibilities, Limitless

  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.137, Workman Publishing

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• Most people assume that a muse is a creature of perfect beauty, poise and grace. Like the creatures from Greek mythology. They're wrong. In fact, there should be a marked absence of perfection in a muse--a gaping hole between what she is and what she might be. The ideal muse is a woman whose rough edges and contradictions drive you to fill in the blanks of her character. She is the irritant to your creativity. A remarkable possibility, waiting to be formed.

  Kathleen Tessaro

  Creativity, Character, Rough Edges

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• Each of us does, in effect, strike a series of deals or compromises between the wants and longings of the inner self, and an outer environment that offers certain possibilities and sets certain limitations.

  Maggie Scarf

  Self, Doe, Want

  Maggie Scarf (1980). “Unfinished business: pressure points in the lives of women”, Doubleday Books

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• Beyond the deepest tragedy there is laughter; even in the midst of tragedy there is always the possibility for laughter.

  Del Close

  Laughter, Tragedy, Midst

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• 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.

  Oswald Chambers

  Doe, Satan, Regeneration

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.542, Discovery House

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• People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of. It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Want Something, Interesting

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• The best thing you can give yourselves...is the gift of possibility. And the best thing you can give each other is the pledge to go on protecting that gift in each other as long as you live.

  Paul Newman

  Long, Giving, Goes On

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• The mathematics of quantum mechanics very accurately describes how our universe works. And it tells us our reality is continually branching into different possibilities, just like a coral.

  Antony Garrett Lisi

  Motivation, Inspiration, Reality

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• It's time to stop building the shopping malls, the prisons, the stadiums and other tributes to all of our collective failures. It is time that we start building living monuments to hope and possibility.

  Majora Carter

  Motivation, Inspiration, Shopping

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• Medicaid provides health care to our neediest citizens. While other states have had to cut Medicaid rolls and benefits already, Delaware has not. But the President's proposed budget would shift tens of millions of dollars of cost to the states, raising the real possibility of program cuts.

  Ruth Ann Minner

  Real, Cutting, President

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• North Korean defectors often find it hard to settle down. It is not easy for somebody who’s escaped a totalitarian country to live in the free world. Defectors have to rediscover who they are in a world that offers endless possibilities. Choosing where to live, what to do, even which clothes to put on in the morning is tough enough for those of us accustomed to making choices; it can be utterly paralyzing for people who’ve had decisions made for them by the state their entire lives.

  Barbara Demick

  Country, Morning, Clothes

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• It might pay to be resilient, if this was all being vulnerable and skinless got you. People didn’t stop and cluck over damage done unless you made it worth their while. Indeed, maybe it was time to rethink this whole salvation business. Or maybe I was less desperate, less teetering on the edge than I cared to admit. Now, that was a refreshing possibility.

  Daphne Merkin

  People, Done, Might

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• I wouldn't give a dime for all the possibilities of [motion pictures with sound]. The public will never accept it.

  George Eastman

  Giving, Sound, Dimes

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• However, when my parents married in 1945, China was in turmoil and the possibility of returning grew increasingly remote, and they decided to begin their family in the United States.

  Steven Chu

  Parent, United States, Married

  Steven Chu - Biographical, www.nobelprize.org. 1997.

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• There's always the possibility that you're going to come across a record that transforms your life. And it happens weekly. It's like a leaf on the stream. There are little currents and eddies and sticks lying in the water that nudge you in a slightly different direction. And then you break loose and carry on down the current. There's nothing that actually stops you and lifts you out of the water and puts you on the bank but there are diversions and distractions and alarums and excursions which is what makes life interesting really. It's fantastic.

  John Peel

  Lying, Water, Interesting

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• Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that.

  John Guare

  Ballet, Listening, Body

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• What we're dealt with hopefully is two arms, two eyes, two legs, a head, a heart. The variations, the extensions, the possibilities of the human body, what that can do

  John Guare

  Heart, Eye, Two

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