Quotes About Possibility

I think it's so interesting which ways your career can go. I would have been a completely different actor doing a completely different story, and I would have missed 'Lady Macbeth.'

I'm not in a mood to fight for things. I feel excited about my career, and I really feel like anything's possible and within my reach.

More and more, I've started to understand that no show is dead unless somebody decrees it's dead at a studio.

People in the U.S. will watch anything if it's put in front of their face over and over again. I like to see what's possible, more than anything.

I want to be a voice to young children and women and people of all ages to go for their dreams, to be resilient and have courage. Don't let fear motivate you. The American Dream says that all things are possible, and I genuinely believe that.

I want to think that I can do the impossible. I'm just going to continue to think that way. I'm just going to continue to think that way and motivate myself.

I never met him. But just growing up where Deacon Jones did, he motivated me to be great, showing the NFL was possible.

I hate that word, CAN'T. I wish it had never been dreamed up, spoken, or defined. I wish the concept of CAN'T could be eradicated not only from language, but more importantly from the psyche of a girl who I know is filled with so much CAN it seeps out of her pores and scents the air.

Do we choose sleep? Hell no and bullshit - we fall. We give ourselves over to possibility, to whim and fancy, to the bed, to the pillow, the tiny white tablet. And these choose for us.

What happened, and what might have happened?

But truly it was not the money that mattered. It was the distant glitter of everything that was possible in the world, the things she had always wanted for herself and could not name and called happiness because there was no other word.

At what point," he asked, "does one decide on rafters and a rope? Answer: no points to be had. There is merely what happened, what is now happening and what will one day happen. Do we choose sleep? Hell no and bullshit – we fall. We give ourselves over to possibility, to whim and fancy, to the bed, the pillow, the tiny white tablet. And these choose for us. Gravity has a hand. Bear in mind trapdoors. We fall in love, yes? Tumble, in fact. Is it choice? Enough said.

Everything imaginable had been done or tried out there. It wasn't the feeling you had looking out on his own land. In Australia, you looked out and saw the possible, the spaces, the maybes...

In You're Looking Very Well: The Surprising Nature of Getting Old (Faber, 2010), author Lewis Wolpert states his belief that one day human beings may have a lifespan of six hundred years.

The odds are never impossible," Thrawn said calmly. "Merely unfavorable.

Where there's life, there's the hope of change.

Your transformations are not a disease one comes down with. It's simply that you have been given the key to a door that has appeared before you. With the key in your hands, it's up to both of you whether to open it or keep it closed. If you open the door, it is also up to you whether you set foot in there or not. - Kisuke Urahara

We're never too old for dreams.

To create anything… is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic.

If you keep things simple, and look to the end, not the problems in the way, most things turn out to be possible.

When you open your mind to the possibility that your capabilities are unlimited and unknown, you already have your running shoes on and are ready to race forward.

Start with a growth mindset, the deep-seated belief that your true potential is still unknown. That you are not limited to only what you have been able to do before.

The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion, and the tyranny of the dull mind forever threatens -- but our lives are not as limited as we think they are, all things are possible, laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it's love and love alone that really matters.

To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.