Quotes About Possibility

There always is this fallacious belief: "It would not be the same here; here such things are impossible." Alas, all the evil of the twentieth century is possible everywhere on earth. ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN1

If the odds are 50/50, I don't stand a chance!

Whatever the wording, all our justifications for failure focus on "why it can't be done," rather than on "what else I can do." To

We push teams to specify in detail the advantage they aim to achieve or leverage, the scope across which the advantage applies, and the activities throughout the value chain that would deliver the intended advantage across the targeted scope. Otherwise, it is impossible to unpack the logic underlying a possibility and to subject the possibility to subsequent tests.

If we try to make general inferences about the theoretical possibility of a reliable computational model of the brain, we ought indeed to come to terms with the mysteries of quantum theory.

Why do we write? "To make suffering endurable To make evil intelligible To make justice desirable and . . . to make love possible

This was the power of evil, he thought before drifting off to sleep. Nothing be actually done to you, just the idea of it, the rumor of it, the sense of the possibility of it. That was enough.

There are teachers who say that one of the main obstacles, spiritual obstacles, for westerners is a sense of unworthiness, a self-limiting sense of what's possible for them in a human life.

You can never tell you the mountain will allow and who it will not.

Thus, the question of how and when to start vagabonding is not really a question at all. Vagabonding starts now. Even if the practical reality of travel is still months or years away, vagabonding begins the moment you stop making excuses, start saving money, and begin to look at maps with the narcotic tingle of possibility.

vagabonding begins the moment you stop making excuses, start saving money, and begin to look at maps with the narcotic tingle of possibility.

Life is not a matter for simple optimism--for there is evil; nor for mere pessimism--for there is good. The possibility for good in the face of evil is what gives life tragic meaning.

Anxiety is the state of man…when he confronts his freedom…Whenever possibility is visualized by an individual, anxiety is potentially present in the same experience…Such possibilities, like roads ahead which cannot be known since one has not yet traversed and experienced them, involve anxiety…To Kierkegaard, the more possibility…an individual has, the more potential anxiety he has at the same time.

The reason why we believe that change is possible is not because we are idealists but because we believe we have made it, so other people can make it as well.

I don't consider myself to be definite, but in waiting position and eventual appearance

Tuomet mes iš tikr?j? buvome pasiek? dugn? - nesakau "prarajos", nes nuo tada patyriau, kad praraja dugno neturi ir kad mes visi galim mušti gylio rekordus, niekada neišsemdami tos ?domios institucijos galimybi?.

A volte l'impossibile ha una mano felice.

Dia prova di prudenza, è sempre una buona scusa. Oppure parta con me domani. Non faccia la sciocchezza di perdersi qualcosa per eccesso di esperienza. Parta con me, dia una possibilità all'impossibile. Non ha idea di quanto l'impossibile non ne possa più, e a che punto abbia bisogno di noi.

il se demandait parfois jusqu'où on pouvait aller nulle part.

Bob slid his chair back and moved the coal-oil lamp from the kitchen to the sitting room. He said, "Oftentimes things seem impossible up until they're attempted." Then he lidded the chimney glass with his palm and suffocated the light.

Innovation is this amazing intersection between someone's imagination and the reality in which they live. The problem is, many companies don't have great imagination, but their view of reality tells them that it's impossible to do what they imagine.

Is that possible? I said. All things, all things are possible. What do you think your bike ride says? People would say "Is that possible?" Of course you know it is, now.

Contempla que todo es posible. Si de pronto te da miedo nadar muy lejos océano adentro, da la vuelta y regresa al barco. Respira. Recuerda que la belleza existe y que la verdad no existe. Nota que la idea de verdad es tan poderosa como la de belleza

you cannot expect people to seriously consider your idea without accepting the possibility that they will challenge it. Accepting that process of engagement as the terrain of leadership liberates you personally.