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Quotes About Possibility

I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.
~ Whoopi Goldberg
I can do anything. I can be anything. No one ever told me I couldn't. No one ever expressed this idea that I was limited to any one thing, and so I think in terms of what's possible, not impossible.
~ Whoopi Goldberg
Nothing is impossible to gods and authors.
~ Will Durant
They all talked at once, their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an incontrovertible fact, as people will when their desires become words.
~ William Faulkner
next year she would have another birthday, and if she just remembered to get into bed left foot first and to turn the pillow over before she went to sleep, who knows what might happen?
~ William Faulkner
making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an incontrovertible fact
~ William Faulkner
Después todos hablaron de lo que harían con veinticinco dólares. Todos hablaban a la vez, insistentes y contradictorias sus voces, convirtiendo lo irreal en posible, luego en probable, después en hecho incontrovertible, como hace la gente al trasnformar sus deseos en palabras.
~ William Faulkner
You're from the future, Mr Netherton? Not exactly, he said. I'm in the future that would result from my not being here. But since I am, it isn't your future. Here.
~ William Gibson
If there were such a being," she said, "you'd be a part of it, wouldn't you?" "Yes." "Would you know?" "Not necessarily." "Do you know?" "No." "Do you rule out the possibility?" "No.
~ William Gibson
He says the beast comes out of the sea. The last laugh died away. Ralph turned involuntarily, a black, humped figure against the lagoon. The assembly looked with him, considered the vast stretches of water, the high sea of beyond, unknown indigo of infinite possibility, heard silently the sough and whisper from the reef
~ William Golding
Our mistake is to confuse our limitations with the bounds of possibility . . .
~ William Golding
Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.
~ William James
We all have reservoirs of life to draw upon, of which we do not dream.
~ William James
Open yourself to every possibility, for there is nothing your heart can imagine that is not so.
~ William Kent Krueger
For every action, there's an infinity of outcomes. Countless trillions are possible, many milliards are likely, millions might be considered probable, several occur as possibilities to us as observers - and one comes true.
~ China Mieville
He said, You'll write it not because there's no possibility it'll be found but because it costs too much to not write it.
~ China Mieville
There's something intrinsically radical about the fantastic aesthetic - starting from the premise that the impossible is true, attempting to undermine expectations.
~ China Mieville
Whether you agree with the bloody predicates or not, Constable Collingswood, you should consider the possibility that faith might be a way of thinking more rigorously than the woolly bullshit of most atheists.
~ China Mieville
He said, You'll write it not because there's no possibility it'll be found but because it costs too much to not write it.
~ China Mieville
Limitations are but boundaries in our minds
~ Chinese proverb
Logic takes you from A to B, but imagination takes you everywhere.
~ Chinese proverb
If you're worried about the possibility of rationalization at home or at work, you need to squeeze out the ambiguity from your goal. You need a black-and-white (B&W) goal. A B&W goal is an all-or-nothing goal, and it's useful in times when you worry about backsliding.
~ Chip Heath
We want what we might call a destination postcard—a vivid picture from the near-term future that shows what could be possible. That
~ Chip Heath
WHEN LIFE OFFERS US a "this or that" choice, we should have the gall to ask whether the right answer might be "both.
~ Chip Heath