Quotes About Possibility

The question shouldn't be what we ought to do, but what we can do.

If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

the capacity to be present to everything that is happening, without resistance, creates possibility

Will you give me two quarters?" conveyed a vibrant new world, one in which asking, giving, and receiving were all easy, generous acts. Possibility has its own music, its own gestures, its own kind of radiance, and the attendant caught the spark. How could we help but be joyous that we had the means among us to make everything work?

So, the practice of enrollment is about giving yourself as a possibility to others and being ready, in turn, to catch their spark. It is about playing together as partners in a field of light. And the steps to the practice are: 1.  Imagine that people are an invitation for enrollment. 2.  Stand ready to participate, willing to be moved and inspired. 3.  Offer that which lights you up. 4.  Have no doubt that others are eager to catch the spark.

Rosamund Stone Zander

In the legal sphere, fault and blame play an important role. The law-abiding driver is entitled to sue the perpetrator to cover his losses, however they be construed. But we are talking about access to possibility, not to victory or remuneration. Gracing yourself with responsibility for everything that happens in your life leaves your spirit whole, and leaves you free to choose again.

a universe of possibility—the only place from which you can enroll other people.

Speaking in possibility springs from the appreciation that what we say creates a reality; how we define things sets a framework for life to unfold. A practice of this chapter and of the book as a whole is to distinguish between talk in the downward spiral and conversations for possibility. The question one asks is: *

The practice of the way things are is a reality check on the runaway imagination of the calculating self. It's like the world-weary policeman saying, "Just the facts, Ma'am, just the facts." Radiating possibility begins with things as they are and highlights open spaces, the pathways leading out from here.

In the pursuit of objectives under a vision, playing is relevant to the manifestation of the possibility, winning is not.

If I were to wish for anything I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of what can be, for the eye, which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating as possibility? —SØREN KIERKEGAARD, Either/Or

The foremost challenge for leaders today, we suggest, is to maintain the clarity to stand confidently in the abundant universe of possibility, no matter how fierce the competition, no matter how stark the necessity to go for the short-term goal, no matter how fearful people are, and no matter how urgently the wolf may appear to howl at the door. It is to have the courage and persistence to distinguish the downward spiral from the radiant realm of possibility in the face of any challenge.

VISION IS A powerful framework to take the operations of an organization of any size from the downward spiral into the arena of possibility. Yet, while most organizations use the term "vision" liberally, we have found that few have articulated a vision in such a way that it serves that purpose.

Things happen they way they're meant to. There's a pattern and a shape to everything...Nothing happens without a reason...Nothing is impossible...(Page 180).

The door is open. Go!

The door is open. Go. While in prison, I received a dictionary.

It feels ... as though doors were opening all over the world... It's bigger, somehow, the world.

Mustard seeds mean faith," she had said. "All you need is the tiniest bit for it to sprout and grow. And you can do anything with faith. . . .

Someday's better. It's always in the future, and it's always possible.

You never can tell what you can do till you try.

Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it yet. ~ Anne of Green Gables

It's better to imagine than to know.

A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible.