Possibility Quotes - Page 28

• The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits. The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.

  Adrienne Rich

  Important, Culture, Limits

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• Don't blame me for the fact that competent programming, as I view it as an intellectual possibility, will be too difficult for the average programmer, you must not fall into the trap of rejecting a surgical technique because it is beyond the capabilities of the barber in his shop around the corner.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Fall, Views, Average

  Edsger W. Dijkstra (2012). “Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective”, p.163, Springer Science & Business Media

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• I think it is no exaggeration to say we are on the cusp of the further perfection of extreme evil, an evil whose possibility spreads well beyond that which weapons of mass destruction bequeathed to the nation-states, on to a surprising and terrible empowerment of extreme individuals.

  Bill Joy

  Thinking, Mass Destruction, Evil

  "Be very afraid of the future", www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2000.

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• However hopeless the situation appears to be there yet always exists the possibility of putting up a stubborn resistance.

  Paul Keres

  Stubborn, Chess, Resistance

  Paul Keres, Alexander Kotov (2012). “The Art of the Middle Game”, p.81, Courier Corporation

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

  Hans-Georg Gadamer

  Essence, Opening Up, Opening

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• When Patanjali says "non-attachment", he is not anti-love. Really, he is for love. Non-attachment means be natural, loving, flowing, but don't get obsessed and addicted. Addiction is the problem. Then it is like a disease. You cannot love anybody except your child - this is addiction. Then you will be in misery. Your child can die; then there is no possibility for your love to flow. Even if your child is not going to die, he will grow. And the more he grows, the more he will become independent. And then there will be pain. Every mother suffers, every father suffers.

  Rajneesh

  Mother, Children, Pain

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• We have indeed been out in space, but some are under the illusion that we have been off Earth. In reality humans have never been off Earth. We have always been on a piece of Earth in space. We survive only as long as we can breathe the air of Earth, drink its waters, and be nourished by its foods. There is no indication that as humans we will ever live anywhere else in the universe. Place, too, is continuously being transformed but only within its own possibilities.

  Thomas Berry

  Reality, Air, Space

  Thomas Berry (2011). “The Great Work: Our Way into the Future”, p.92, Crown

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• No individual can be in full control of his fate-our strengths come significantly from our history, our experiences largely from the vagaries of chance. But by seizing the opportunity to leverage and frame these experiences, we gain agency over them. And this heightened agency, in turn, places us in a stronger position to deal with future experiences, even as it may alter our own sense of strengths and possibilities.

  Howard Gardner

  Fate, Opportunity, Agency

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• Breathe in the sweet air of limitless possibility, and make life as rich as you know it can be.

  Ralph Marston

  Sweet, Air, Limitless Possibilities

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• The not-knowing is crucial to art, is what permits art to be made. Without the scanning process engendered by not-knowing, without the possibility of having the mind move in unanticipated directions, there would be no invention.

  Donald Barthelme

  Art, Moving, Knowing

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• A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a theatre; a good movie can make you feel alive again, in contact, not just lost in another city. Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again.

  Pauline Kael

  Believe, Cities, Good Movie

  1970 Going Steady.

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• Standards of beauty describe in precise terms the relationship that an individual will have to her own body. They prescribe her mobility, spontaneity, posture, gait, the uses to which she can use her body. They define precisely the dimension of her physical freedom and psychological development, intellectual possibility, and creative potential is an umbilical one.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Creative, Intellectual, Dimensions

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• Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible, the fear of failure. Never forget your personal legend. Your silent heart will guide you. Be silent now. It is the possibility of a dream that makes life interesting. You can choose between being a victim of destiny or an adventurer who is fighting for something important.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Heart, Fighting

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• The judge who sits over the murderer and looks into his face, and at one moment recognizes all the emotions and potentialities and possibilities of the murderer in his own soul and hears the murderer's voice as his own, is at the next moment one and indivisible as the judge, and scuttles back into the shell of his cultivated self and does his duty and condemns the murderer to death.

  Hermann Hesse

  Voice, Self, Judging

  Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam

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• 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.

  Michael Shanks

  Agriculture, Walks, Preparing

  IGN interview, www.ign.com. July 7, 2004.

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• They will open up to what I would call corporate broadcastings where the non-commercial material will have air time. There's no possibility of that here right now, none.

  Ann Macbeth

  Air, Broadcasting, Materials

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• My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone?

  Bruce Sterling

  Ideas, Environmental, Parks

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• We are born into a vast room whose walls consist of a thousand doors of possibility. Each door is flung open to the world outside, and the room is filled with light and noise. We close some of the doors deliberately, sometimes with fear, sometimes with calm certainty. Others seem to close by themselves, some so quietly that we do not even notice.

  Terry Teachout

  Wall, Doors, Light

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• The Quest of the Holy Grail, the Search for the Stone of the Philosophers-by whatever name we choose to call the Great Work-is therefore endless. Success only opens up new avenues of brilliant possibility.

  Aleister Crowley

  Names, Holy Grail, Quests

  Aleister Crowley (1991). “Little Essays Toward Truth”

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• Slumbering in every human being lies an infinity of possibilities, which one must not arouse in vain. For it is terrible when the whole man resonates with echoes and echoes, none becoming a real voice.

  Elias Canetti

  Real, Lying, Men

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• People often expect the other person to respond first in a positive way, instead of taking the initiative to create that possibility. I feel that's wrong; it can act as a barrier that just promotes a feeling of isolation from others. To overcome feelings of isolation and loneliness, your underlying attitude makes a tremendous difference - approaching others with the thought of compassion in your mind is the best way.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Loneliness, Compassion

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• Greatness is helping others realize they are great, beautiful and capable. Genius is seeing the wonder and possibility in those others ignore.

  Cory Booker

  Beautiful, Helping Others, Greatness

  FaceBook post by Cory Booker from Jun 17, 2013

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• Leadership is seeing the possibilities in a situation while others are seeing the limitations.

  John C. Maxwell

  Situation, Seeing, Limitation

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You”, p.297, Thomas Nelson Inc

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

  Igor Stravinsky

  Silence, Foolish, Save Me

  Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft (1966). “Themes and episodes”

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• Claim the possibility of a miraculous shift toward global transformation, allow the thought to move through you like a wave of energy, then emerge ready for the task of doing your part to make it happen.

  Marianne Williamson

  Moving, Energy, Tasks

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Jan 12, 2013

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