Possibility Quotes - Page 39

• One of life's fundamental truths states, "Ask and you shall receive." As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ability in adulthood. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of criticism or rejection.

  Jack Canfield

  Inspirational, Kids, Rejection

  "'How Am I Doing?' The One Question That Can Change All Of Your Relationships" by Jack Canfield, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 8, 2009.

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• The question to ask is whether the risk of traveling to space is worth the benefit. The answer is an unequivocal yes, but not only for the reasons that are usually touted by the space community: the need to explore, the scientific return, and the possibility of commercial profit. The most compelling reason, a very long-term one, is the necessity of using space to protect Earth and guarantee the survival of humanity.

  William E. Burrows

  Moon, Space, Compelling Reason

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• Food-what is chosen from the possibilities available, how it is presented, how it is eaten, with whom and when, and how much time is allotted to cooking and eating it-is one of the means by which a society creates itself and acts out its aims and fantasies.

  Margaret Visser

  Food, Mean, Cooking

  Margaret Visser (2010). “Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Mea”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle... Perhaps an editor might begin a reformation in some such way as this. Divide his paper into four chapters, heading the 1st, Truths. 2d, Probabilities. 3d, Possibilities. 4th, Lies. The first chapter would be very short.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Lying, Media, Editors

  Thomas Jefferson (1853). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private”, p.92

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• I want to show people what the possibilities are if you take care of yourself and do the right thing.

  Ben Vereen

  People, Care, Want

  "Ben Vereen’s Remarkable Journey Of Love And Loss". Interview with Laura Rowley, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2012.

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• Misery is evil; quarreling, a misfortune. There is only one possibility of avoiding both: a clear division of society. [Otherwise] the strong tyrannize the weak, the intelligent frighten the stupid, the inferior resist the superior, and the young mock the old.

  Xunzi

  Strong, Stupid, Intelligent

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• The few really great-the major novelists ... are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.

  F. R. Leavis

  Novelists, Fiction, Tradition

  'The Great Tradition' (1948) ch. 1

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• Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

  Communication, Possibility Of Change, Function

  Kenneth Lee Pike (1967). “Language in relation to a unified theory of the structure of human behavior”, Mouton De Gruyter

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• Invest in a feather duster - the possibilities are endless.

  Anne Rice

  Literature, Endless, Feathers

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• Creation implies authority in the sense of originator. The possibility of a 'Fall' is implied in a Covenant insofar as the idea of a Covenant implies the possibility of its being violated.

  Kenneth Burke

  Fall, Ideas, Covenant

  Kenneth Burke (1970). “The Rhetoric of Religion: Studies in Logology”, p.174, Univ of California Press

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• Within the university... you can study without waiting for any efficient or immediate result. You may search, just for the sake of searching, and try for the sake of trying. So there is a possibility of what I would call playing. It's perhaps the only place within society where play is possible to such an extent.

  Jacques Derrida

  Education, Play, Waiting

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• Most of my recorded material has been in small group configurations. I have not released large orchestral works as recordings because it hasn't been within the realm of possibility.

  Bill Dixon

  Groups, Realms, Materials

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• In real life we don't know what's going to happen next. So how can you be that way on a stage? Being alive to the possibility of not knowing exactly how everything is going to happen next - if you can find places to have that happen onstage, it can resonate with an experience of living.

  Sam Shepard

  Real, Knowing, Alive

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• The German people were not denied, however, the possibility of improving their lot by hard work over the years. Industrial growth and progress were not denied them.

  James F. Byrnes

  Hard Work, Years, People

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• The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they're all driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire.

  Tom Hanks

  Mean, Years, Desire

  "Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts' Larry Crowne: A family affair". Interview with Joel Amos, www.sheknows.com. June 29, 2011.

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• I am never wrong when it comes to my possibilities.

  Placido Domingo

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• The clich? that women, more consistently than men, turn inward for sustenance seems to mean, in practice, that women have richly defined the ways in which imagination creates possibility; possibility that society denies.

  Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks

  Women, Mean, Practice

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• Rules matter, and to be rules they need to be universal in form: always do this, never do that. But it is foolish to rule out in advance the possibility that an occasion might arise when normal rules just don't apply. Rules are not there to be broken, but sometimes break them we must.

  Julian Baggini

  Broken, Needs, Might

  "Never saying never to torture" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2011.

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• 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.

  Octavia Butler

  Past, Thinking, People

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• I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world.

  Anthony Braxton

  Discipline, World, Students

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• 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.

  Emily Greene Balch

  Judging, Too Much, Judgment

  Emily Greene Balch (1972). “Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch”, New York : Twayne Publishers

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• The president said nothing about the views of government in regard to the possibility of Carolinas seceding. This however was frequently spoken of by other statesmen at the North. I think they were unanimous in this, that no army would be sent here.

  John Bachman

  Army, Thinking, Government

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• Sometimes we think of a creature like a person in a suit, but then you have limitations of two eyes and two legs - they have to see and breathe. I got more into puppetry because it offered more possibilities.

  Rick Baker

  Eye, Thinking, Two

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• And therefore we must seek dialogue in this networked world. We must ask which voice was actually attempting to make itself heard and saw no other possibility of gaining a hearing. To that extent, for a while this also represented a forced opening of a cosmopolitan view.

  Ulrich Beck

  Views, Voice, World

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• I was an activist long before I even entertained the possibility of being an actor.

  William Baldwin

  Long, Actors, Activist

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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