Possibility Quotes - Page 27

• Do we choose to see possibilities? Do we really believe that they're there? Perception controls our reality, and if we don't believe it, we won't see it.

  Dewitt Jones

  Believe, Reality, Perception

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• Jurors realize that instead of having to make that terrible decision (voting for the death penalty), they can vote to put someone in prison and ensure that defendant is no longer a harm to society. It makes it easier for them to return a verdict of life without the possibility of parole.

  Robert Falcon Scott

  Decision, Voting, Return

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• Given the irreversibility of the death penalty, the possibility of a wrongful conviction can never be overstated.

  George Gascon

  Death Penalty, Law Enforcement, Conviction

  "S.F's district attorney on the death penalty" by George Gascon, www.sfgate.com. April 30, 2011.

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• The job of the leader is to speak to the possibility.

  Benjamin Zander

  Leadership, Jobs, Vision

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

  Nathaniel Branden

  Self Esteem, Self Worth, Motive

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• Most of us make unconscious choices in the words that we use; we sleep-walk through the maze of possibilities available to us.

  Tony Robbins

  Sleep, Choices, Mazes

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.232, Simon and Schuster

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• The mind contains all possibilities.

  Gautama Buddha

  Imagination, Mind

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• The Law of Attraction allows for infinite possibilities, infinite abundance & infinite joy. It knows no order of difficulty.

  Jack Canfield

  Law Of Attraction, Order, Joy

  Jack Canfield, D. D. Watkins (2007). “Jack Canfield's Key to Living the Law of Attraction: A Simple Guide to Creating the Life of Your Dreams”, p.10, Health Communications, Inc.

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• As a rule, so-called "positional" sacrifices are considered more difficult, and therefore more praise-worthy, than those which are based exclusively on an exact calculation of tactical possibilities.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Sacrifice, Chess, Praise

  Alexander Alekhine, Garry Kasparov (2011). “Alexander Alekhine's Best Games: Algebraic edition”, Pavilion Books

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• One energy field. Our bodies have distracted us from our energy. We are the infinite field of unfolding possibilities. The creative force.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Law Of Attraction, Creative, Energy

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• The thousands of possible lives that used to spread out in front of me have snapped shut into one, and all I get is what I've got. It's time to pass on the possibilities, all those deliciously half-open doors, to my children, and drive them to the airports, and wish them bon voyage.

  Barbara Holland

  Life, Children, Airports

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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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• You may say that I am just another outdated old man complaining about progress and the changes of time. But, you see, I have well considered that possibility myself, and am prepared o submit to correction by anybody who cares about a community, who can show me how the world is improved by that community's dying.

  Wendell Berry

  Men, Community, Progress

  Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC

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• There seems to be a strong possibility that international humanitarian law has been violated, in a manner that could amount to war crimes.

  Navi Pillay

  Strong, War, Law

  "U.N. launches probe into alleged Israeli crimes in Gaza". www.reuters.com. July 23, 2014.

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• It is a world of startling possibilities.

  Charles Fletcher Dole

  World

  Charles Fletcher Dole (1906). “The Hope of Immortality: Our Reasons for it”

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• A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax... laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can risk the price of a ticket without sensible injury, for the possibility of a higher prize.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Gambling, Risk, Tickets

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, 4: Correspondence and Private Papers”, p.440

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• Anything that has been accomplished by any other human being in the physical realm is within the field of possibility.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Fields, Abundance And Prosperity

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• There is therefore no reason to put a limit to evolutionary possibility by taking our present organization or status of existence as final. The animal is a laboratory in which Nature has worked out man; man may very well be a laboratory in which she wills to work out superman, to disclose the soul as a divine being, to evolve a divine nature.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Animal, Men, Organization

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• Our thoughts about the future go far toward creating it; our minds and hears are like filaments taht connect today to tomorrow, they are conduits for either the status quo or the emergence of different, hopefully more loving, possibilities. How we think and how we behave determine where we are going

  Marianne Williamson

  Thinking, Creating, Mind

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• With meditation, you become a sensitized superhero, completely in control, with endless possibilities at your fingertips.

  Tara Stiles

  Superhero, Meditation, Fingertips

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• There are enough fossils showing distinctive features to rule out the possibility these are unusual or aberrant modern humans

  Chris Stringer

  Fossils, Unusual, Modern

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• 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.

  Verlyn Klinkenborg

  Research, Funding, Experiments

  Verlyn Klinkenborg (2013). “More Scenes from the Rural Life”, p.110, Princeton Architectural Press

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• There is a strong possibility I will release another volume of ARTPOP and I'm really hoping that it's soon.

  Lady Gaga

  Strong, Release, Volume

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• You have sole custody of your life. Who you are today is not who you have to be tomorrow. Embrace the possibility of transformation.

  Leeza Gibbons

  Deep Thought, Custody, Today

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• People are usually too busy counting the things they don't have. They notice how much more money their neighbor has, how much further ahead in spiritual unfoldment someone else is, and so on. But if we stop to count our blessings, to realize how much we do have and be grateful for it, then the heart is kept open to love and all the gifts that love brings, including the possibility of healing.

  Harold Klemp

  Spiritual, Grateful, Healing

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