Quotes About Possibility

Ya?am sanat?n?n ödevi, ba?ar?l? bir hayata katk?da bulunmak ve insan? mutlu etmek de?il midir? Evet, k?smen öyledir ama ba?ar?s?z ve mutsuz olmak da vard?r insna hayat?nda. En az?ndan basitçe "def edemeyece?imiz" için vard?r. Ba?ar? zorunluluk de?ildir, ba?ar?s?zl?k hep bir ihtimaldir.

Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Anything you can imagine is probably true. And the worst you can imagine is probably worth money.

When the top prize is very large, ticket buyers appear indifferent to the fact that their chance of winning is minuscule. A lottery ticket is the ultimate example of the possibility effect. Without a ticket you cannot win, with a ticket you have a chance, and whether the chance is tiny or merely small matters little. Of course, what people acquire with a ticket is more than a chance to win; it is the right to dream pleasantly of winning.

what people acquire with a ticket is more than a chance to win; it is the right to dream pleasantly of winning.

To see is to experience the world as it is, to remember is to experience the world as it was, but to imagine-ah, to imagine is to experience the world as it isn't and has never been, but as it might be. The greatest achievement of the human brain is its ability to imagine objects and episodes that do not exist in the realm of the real, and it is this ability that allows us to think about the future.

If the past is a wall with some holes, the future is a hole with no walls.

Never forget, the unimaginable can happen.

No relationship is without its difficulties and this is certainly true when one or both of the persons involved has an autistic spectrum disorder. Even so, I believe what is truly essential to the success of any relationship is not so much compatibility, but love. When you love someone, virtually anything is possible.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand. ALBERT EINSTEIN

Yet we can reasonably hope that our ideas, which wait up ahead, will make a clearing for desire.

If you can see the magic in a fairytale, you can face the future.

If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.

Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it.

you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future

If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day after tomorrow I would be able to get in a taxi cab and be in Tokyo in 30 seconds.

She has decided all university campuses are alike- the sense of possibility and stasis. She thinks this too: all graduate students, if you look closely enough, exude the same aura of privilege and poverty.

She senses, for the first time, how far away one can be from one's own life, how contentedly distant. The gaping enormity of the universe, its endless possibility… She feels it, an aura, an inkling - the illusion of absolute freedom.

he wondered if it was even possible to have happiness in a story, when one was required to imagine both a beginning and an end.

It was possible, probable even, that the world could be rebuilt.

I couldn't be fonder of you if you were my own son. But, well, if you lose a son, its possible to get another. There's only one Maltese Falcon.

Moreover, when you interact with the external world, you get more involved with realistic rules of thumb. When you're in your head, by contrast, you can imagine anything. This is why anticipatory worry is almost always worse than anything that actually happens in real life—there are no rules in your head, anything seems possible! In the external world, the rules of reality apply.

It can be difficult to accept the fact that a lot of birds have to be identified as "possible" or "probable.

Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep.