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Quotes About Possibility

and he never considered the idea.
~ Atul Gawande
Somewhere in my mind, I must have been aware of the possibility that
~ Atul Gawande
the encounter somehow made the goal seem attainable.
~ Atul Gawande
The notion isn't as absurd as it sounds.
~ Atul Gawande
There is almost always a long tail of possibility, however thin. What's wrong with looking for it? Nothing, it seems to me, unless it means we have failed to prepare for the outcome that's vastly more probable.
~ Atul Gawande
Medicine and public health have transformed the trajectory of our lives. For all but our most recent history, death was a common, ever-present possibility. It didn't matter whether you were five or fifty. Every day was a roll of the dice.
~ Atul Gawande
In the end, a checklist is only an aid. If it doesn't aid, it's not right. But if it does, we must be ready to embrace the possibility.
~ Atul Gawande
But then I told him there was still one other possibility that I couldn't get out of my head: a necrotizing fasciitis.
~ Atul Gawande
Once a possibility has been put in your mind—especially one as horrible as necrotizing fasciitis—the possibility does not easily go away.
~ Atul Gawande
he has the potential for a full return to practice.
~ Atul Gawande
succumbed to a belief that, once you lose your physical independence, a life of worth and freedom is simply not possible.
~ Atul Gawande
In the forefront of our move toward change, there is only poetry to hint at possibility made real.
~ Audrey Lorde
Allt kan ske, allt är möjligt och sannolikt. Tid och rum existera icke; på en obetydlig verklighetsgrund spinner inbillningen ut och väver nya mönster: en blandning av minnen, upplevelser, fria påhitt, orimligheter och improvisationer.
~ August Strindberg
Genom att försöka göra det omöjliga når man högsta graden av det möjliga.
~ August Strindberg
we were particles that came together to form into star after star after star until almost forever passed, and instead of a star what formed was life ... This is why for you, anything is possible. Because you are made of everything.
~ Augusten Burroughs
Where there is nothing, absolutely anything is possible.
~ Augusten Burroughs
And possibility was my fuel. It was the One Thing that prevented me from slitting my wrists on any given horrid day. The fact that at any moment, everything could change.
~ Augusten Burroughs
It is not the place of the theatre to show the correct path, but only to offer the means by which all possible paths may be examined.
~ Augusto Boal
The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
~ Ayn Rand
A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal that is worth achieving.
~ Ayn Rand
Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing but rational actions.
~ Ayn Rand
The world you desire can be won. It exists...it is real...it is possible...it's yours.
~ Ayn Rand
there's something in me that knows of a life I've never lived, the kind of a life no one has ever lived, but should." "You know it? Why don't you live it?
~ Ayn Rand
There are no limits to what you can believe!
~ Spencer Johnson