Possibilities Quotes

• When an opportunity comes, it holds possibilities. And when you move away from it or don't sense it or grasp it, you're really throwing away your future; you're throwing away your tomorrow.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Opportunity
  • Comes
  • Holds

• The very natural tendency to use terms derived from traditional grammar like verb, noun, adjective, passive voice, in describing languages outside of Indo-European is fraught with grave possibilities of misunderstanding.

  

  Benjamin Lee Whorf
  • Possibilities
  • Grammar
  • Verbs

• Time will prolong time, and life will serve life. In this field that is both limited and bulging with possibilities, everything to himself, except his lucidity, seems unforeseeable to him. What rule, then, could emanate from that unreasonable order? The only truth that might seem instructive to him is not formal: it comes to life and unfolds in men. The absurd mind cannot so much expect ethical rules at the end of its reasoning as, rather, illustrations and the breath of human lives.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Truth
  • Rule
  • Breath

• What I seek is a permanent opening of possibilities.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Possibilities
  • Seek
  • Opening

• The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

  

  George Eliot
  • Possibilities
  • Hopeful
  • Analogies

• There are almost unlimited possibilities for making discoveries and to uncover the unknown. It is in the nature of the discovery that it can not be planned or programmed. On the contrary it consists of surprises and appears many times in the most unexpected places.

  

  Bengt I. Samuelsson
  • Discoveries
  • Surprises
  • Programmed

• Start small; Think possibilities; Reach beyond your known abilities; Invest all you have in your dream; Visualize miracles; Expect to experience success.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Think
  • Dream
  • Invest

• The possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and imponderable. They inspire one with awe.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Mind
  • Effort
  • Inspire

• Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Imagination
  • Release
  • Imprisoned

• Military action is never the first thing that you jump to. You always look at other possibilities, including economic sanctions, tightening the screws.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Possibilities
  • Screws
  • Military Action

• The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct, undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a tamed instinct. The reason is becoming the enemy that prevents us from a lot of possibilities of pleasure.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Ego
  • Instinct
  • Satisfying

• Jesus beckons his followers to a path that's far from the easy road. It's a path filled with adventure, uncertainty, and unlimited possibilities - the only path that can fulfill the deepest longings and desires of your heart.

  

  Erwin McManus
  • Jesus
  • Adventure
  • Desires

• All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Ideas
  • Possibilities

• The extreme possibilities are the most illuminating.

  

  David Mumford
  • Possibilities
  • Illuminating

• My strengths—which are really quite modest—are limited to me, but with my weaknesses the possibilities are boundless.

  

  Jason Gray
  • Possibilities
  • Weaknesses
  • Strengths

• Try to keep your mind open to possibilities and your mouth closed on matters that you don't know about. Limit your 'always' and your 'nevers.'

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Mind
  • Possibilities
  • Limit

• The biggest fear that I have is settling into too many set behavior patterns, where I feel like I'm no longer exploring possibilities anymore.

  

  Reggie Watts
  • Behavior
  • Patterns
  • Exploring

• The international community would like to see an agreement in Libya before Ramadan, let me be very cautious about the possibilities for an agreement.

  

  Bernardino Leon
  • Possibilities
  • Agreement
  • International Community

• I had a $1.50 from playing the ukulele after owning it seven minutes. I thought, "Hmmm, this has some possibilities."

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Playing
  • Possibilities
  • Ukulele

• A man goes through many changes in 2000 meters. Some are not very pretty. Some make you hate yourself. Some make you wonder if you've been rowing for only three or four days. To avoid that fate, we prepared for all possibilities. If a meteor landed 10 feet off our stern, we would not blink. We Would be aware, yet impassive, to the outside world. Every ounce of energy would be funneled into the water, and not wasted by looking around, worrying about opponents, wondering about things that didn't concern our primary goal-to be the first across the finish line.

  

  Brad Alan Lewis
  • Wonder
  • Changes
  • Opponents

• If we stop and look over the past and then into the future, we can see that the possibilities are growing greater and greater every day; that we have scarcely begun to reach the proper results from the field we have before us.

  

  David H. McConnell
  • Results
  • Reach
  • Possibilities

• Positivity doesn't just change the contents of your mind...It widens the span of possibilities that you see.

  

  Barbara Fredrickson
  • Change
  • Possibilities
  • Contents

• Language builds on our cognitive capacities to reason about the goals and intentions of other people, on our desire to imitate, our desire to communicate, and our twin capacities for using convention to name things and sequence to indicate differences between differing possibilities.

  

  Gary Marcus
  • Language
  • Communicate
  • Possibilities

• Without question it may be said of Vancouver that her position, geographically, is Imperial to a degree, that her possibilities are enormous, and that with but a feeble stretch of the imagination those possibilities might wisely be deemed certainties.

  

  Homer
  • Question
  • Imagination
  • Position

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