Possibilities Quotes

• There must be something beyond man in this world. Even on attaining to his highest possibilities, he is like a bird beating against his cage. There is something beyond, O deathless like a sea-shell, moaning for the bosom of the ocean to which you belong!

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Ocean
  • Bird
  • Beating

• Today's possibilities are not tomorrows guarantees.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Possibilities
  • Guarantees

• Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Age
  • Same
  • Generations

• A new baby is like the beginning of all things - wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.

  

  Eda LeShan
  • Dream
  • Wonder
  • Baby

• I think '60s are appealing to creative people, because it seemed to be a time of endless possibilities, when the boundaries of what could be considered popular culture were being expanded almost by the week. It doesn't feel like that anymore. At times, I wish it were so. Radio is a perfect example; good God, I mean, back then the most interesting songs were also hits, and that's just not true anymore. It hasn't been true in a long time.

  

  Steven Soderbergh
  • God
  • Culture
  • Radio

• Women don't necessarily understand that it is possible to have the same level of ambition as men - they allow themselves to be held back by the obstacles rather than empowered by the possibilities.

  

  Heather Bresch
  • Men
  • Women
  • Ambition

• When you have no fear, the possibilities are endless.

  

  Jeffree Star
  • Fear
  • Possibilities
  • Endless

• An education is a more surefire guarantee that you have possibilities opened to you.

  

  Jonathan Taylor Thomas
  • Education
  • Possibilities
  • Guarantee

• Every collaboration with a new person is like when you take a bin of Legos and dump them on the floor. All of the pieces to work with are right there. A floor full of Legos is full of possibilities.

  

  Ricky Reed
  • Person
  • Collaboration
  • Possibilities

• We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Remember
  • Photograph
  • Possibilities

• And everywhere, infinite options, infinite possibilities. An infinity, and at the same time, zero. We try to scoop it all up in our hands, and what we get is a handful of zero. That's the city.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • City
  • Hands
  • Options

• A new word. Bright with possibilities. A flawless pearl to turn over and over in my hand, then put away for safekeeping.

  

  Jennifer Donnelly
  • Word
  • Possibilities
  • Bright

• I go to scale the Future's possibilities! Farewell!

  

  Henrik Ibsen
  • Possibilities
  • Farewell
  • Scale

• It's not our past which most determines the possibilities open to us, it's what we choose here and now to make happen in our present and future.

  

  Nick Baylis
  • Past
  • Happen
  • Possibilities

• I have two goals. First, that readers be interested, drawn by a historical account, amused by its comic aspects, saddened by the tragic elements, captured by the possibilities of the past; and second, that readers be aware that there could be another way of looking at things besides the one I offer. I’m not giving a lesson or a sermon, I’m offering a dialogue, as I said before.

  

  Natalie Zemon Davis
  • Past
  • Goals
  • Interest

• There is a silence that matches our best possibilities when we have learned to listen to others. We can master the art of being quiet in order to be able to hear clearly what others are saying. . . . We need to cut off the garbled static of our own preoccupations to give to people who want our quiet attention.

  

  Eugene Kennedy
  • Attention
  • Silence
  • Master

• I would like, if I can, to broaden the possibilities of the musical theater. I think there's a better 'Oklahoma!' someplace, a better 'West Side Story.' And I'd like to be mixed up in it.

  

  Richard Rodgers
  • Theater
  • Possibilities
  • Broaden

• When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Remember
  • Possibilities
  • Exhausted

• The object of religion is the imagination, that deep and inexhaustible font of our understanding and symbolizing our deepest possibilities.

  

  Eugene Kennedy
  • Imagination
  • Religion
  • Possibilities

• Possibilities are like cancer. The more I think about them, the more they multiply, and there's no way to stop them. I'm out of control.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Control
  • Stop
  • Cancer

• Out there is nothing but possibilities.

  

  Michael Douglas
  • Possibilities

• We all possess more power and greater possibilities than we realize, and visualizing is one of the greatest of these powers.

  

  Genevieve Behrend
  • Realize
  • Greater
  • Possess

• The first principle was “Story Is King,” by which we meant that we would let nothing—not the technology, not the merchandising possibilities—get in the way of our story.

  

  Edwin Catmull
  • Technology
  • Story
  • King

• We have to evolve means for obtaining energy from stores which are forever inexhaustible, to perfect methods which do not imply consumption and waste of any material whatever. I now feel sure that the realization of that idea is not far off. ...the possibilities of the development I refer to, namely, that of the operation of engines on any point of the earth by the energy of the medium.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Energy
  • Idea
  • Realization

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