Quotes About Possibility

If you know that life is basically going to be horrendously difficult, at best, and all but unlivable at worst, or possibly even unlivable, do you go on? And the choice to go on is the only thing that I think can be called hope. Because if hope isn't forced to encounter the worst possibility, then it's a lie.

Just because you're down to your last strike, you're not out yet. You can always do more. You'll always have more at-bats to take. That's true in baseball, in rescuing animals, and in life generally.

Even when you have three strikes, you're still not out. There is always something else you can do.

You must know that in any moment a decision you make can change the course of your life forever: the very next person stand behind in line or sit next to on an airplane, the very next phone call you make or receive, the very next movie you see or book you read or page you turn could be the one single thing that causes the floodgates to open, and all of the things that you've been waiting for to fall into place.

Our beliefs about what we are and what we can be precisely determine what we can be

The past does not equal the future.

A new door to the Unbelievable, to the Possible, a new day that can always bring you anything if you have no objection to it.

Mari was hardly listening. A daring thought was taking shape in her mind. She began to anticipate a solitude of her own, peaceful and full of possibility. She felt something close to exhilaration, of a kind that people can permit themselves when they are blessed with love.

A theatre is the most important sort of house in the world, because that's where people are shown what they could be if they wanted, and what they'd like to be if they dared to and what they really are

The American leaders could only bring this new realm of possibility into existence by making a declaration—a form of conversation. Once human rights were declared, actions that would never have been conceived before came naturally to mind.

By learning to uncover the concealed aspects of your current conversations and learning to engage in different types of new conversation, you can alter the way you are being, which, in turn, alters what's possible.

It means committing yourself to continuously act consistent with the possibility you declared, from the moment the declaration is spoken, regardless of the circumstances.

What are you not committed to, only because you don't believe it can be done?

TRANSFORMATION is a function of altering the way you are being—to create something that is currently not possible in your reality.

Being As it pertains to transformation, the realm of possibility in which something exists, rather than an emotional or behavioral state. The way you are being at any given time determines what's possible.

Transformation An alteration in the arena of context. You alter the way you are being to create results that are not currently possible. Transformation provides the creation of that which does not yet exist in the organization and its leaders—a new realm of possibility leading to a new realm of results.

Committed Speaking and Listening A series of speech acts that move what's not possible or impossible to a possibility, and a possibility to a reality.

Declaration of Possibility A specific declaration that brings forth a new realm of possibility the moment it is spoken. A declaration of possibility creates a future that does not yet exist.

Impossible Anything that is outside of your reality—anything that occurs as something that is not possible for you to accomplish, or not possible for you to accomplish at this time and/or under these circumstances.

Taking a Stand A declaration of commitment to act consistent with a specific "declared possibility" to move that possibility to a reality.

You are shifting from … … "what's possible" occurring as "what's predictable," bound by the limits of past experience … … to … … "what's possible" occurring as what you say is possible and what you commit to make happen, based on nothing.

In this situation, at this moment, what's not possible for me?

What is the impossibility that I am compensating for right now with my Winning Strategy?

I define this advanced level of power as the ability to take something that you believe could never come to pass, declare it possible, and then move that possibility into a tangible reality.