Quotes About Possibility

The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.

I think social change work is some of the most extraordinary dreaming that any of us have the possibility of doing.

In today's world, we all live with the burden of feeling that anything is possible if we're only clever enough, smart enough, work hard enough.

I'm not guaranteeing that if you work hard you'll be able to duplicate my success. But in America, if you work hard, you just might. I'm a perfect example of that.

Any time where the delta b/w what is possible and how things work today is at its widest, that's an opportunity to go build new technology.

The point of my work is to make it clear that all youth can make 'big miracles' happen.

It's not what you did, but what you could have done if you allowed the Lord to work His will in your life.

I think it's crucial to live, play and work passionately. I'm inspired by my husband, my son and the sense of possibility in the world.

Of course I knew the work of Roland Kirk and Harry Carney and the specific uses they would make of circular breathing, so I knew it was physically possible.

For the first time in history we can work backward from our imagination rather than forward from our past.

If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too.

The German people were not denied, however, the possibility of improving their lot by hard work over the years. Industrial growth and progress were not denied them.

By dismissing what could work, we dismiss our own growth. We dismiss what's possible.

Enthusiasm will steady the heart and strengthen the will; it will give force to the thought and nerve to the hand until what was only a possibility becomes a reality.

If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom.

A great deal of what is presumed to be intractable or inevitable in this world doesn't strike me that way at all.

Americans who read the papers or watch Jay Leno have been aware for some time now that there is a slim but real possibility - about 1 in 45,000 - that an 850-foot-long asteroid called Apophis could strike Earth with catastrophic consequences on April 13, 2036.

Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?

Because I've got younger sisters, I want to impart on them the possibility of being a strong woman in whatever role I choose.

To say that a thing has never yet been done among men is to erect a barrier stronger than reason, stronger than discussion.

The lessons I learned from my mother and her friends have guided me through death, birth, loss, love, failure, and achievement, on to a Fulbright scholarship and Harvard Business School. They taught me to believe that anything was possible. They have proven to be the strongest family values I could ever have imagined.

The logic of collective security is flawless, provided it can be made to work under the conditions prevailing on the international scene... The odds, however, are strongly against such a possibility.

Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.

I don't like to disrespect people or my opponents. Anything can happen.