Possibilities Quotes

• 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

• Reason offers us many possibilities at once. Intuition infallibly chooses the best. Remember this and you cannot err; you will always make the right choice.

  

  Arthur Japin
  • Choice
  • Intuition
  • Possibilities

• Socrates said there were only two possibilities. Either the soul is immortal or, after death, things would be again as blank as they were before we were born.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Soul
  • Death
  • Immortal

• The variety of shape, pattern, and color found in the languages of the world is a testament to the wonder of nature, to the breathtaking array of possibilities that can emerge, tangled and wild, from the fertile human endowments of brain and larynx, intelligence and social skills.

  

  Arika Okrent
  • Nature
  • Color
  • Shape

• 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

• As the opportunity grows for unlimited growth and progress, the chances of failure increase. There is no such thing as a program that will provide security and growth and progress with no risk . . . even within the church. As freedom for unrestricted development is enhanced, the possibilities for failure are also increased. The risk factor is great.

  

  Dean L. Larsen
  • Opportunity
  • Progress
  • Security

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Eda LeShan
  • Dream
  • Wonder
  • Baby

• 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

• Out there is nothing but possibilities.

  

  Michael Douglas
  • Possibilities

• Today's possibilities are not tomorrows guarantees.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Possibilities
  • Guarantees

• 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

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

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Remember
  • Possibilities
  • Exhausted

• 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
  • Powers

• 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

• 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

• I see the possibilities of a new kind of painting. With free surfaces, the goal I was always steering towards.

  

  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
  • Free
  • Goal
  • Painting

• 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

• 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

• I never want to feel like the way that I see it isthe only way. Sometimes mistakes happen and that's better than whatyou thought the scene could be. You allow room for the possibilities.

  

  Steve Buscemi
  • Mistakes
  • Scene
  • Possibilities

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