Quotes About Possibility

There is a divine grace available for you to accomplish far greater things than you could ever imagine nor dream of.

My favorite fruit is grapes. Because with grapes, you always get another chance. 'Cause, you know, if you have a crappy apple or a peach, you're stuck with that crappy piece of fruit. But if you have a crappy grape, no problem - just move on to the next. 'Grapes: The Fruit of Hope.'

Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.

We have the ability to be able, if we have the right resources around us, to really do chop and change and have fun in our time and not just be stuck in one world or the other.

A lot of people get really stuck in this idea that everything's been done and there's nowhere left to go.

Certainly, in college, I had no idea what I wanted to do, I studied art history and had a great time, but I didn't have any sort of career aspirations.

When one studies the properties of atoms, one found that the reality is far stranger than anybody would have invented in the form of fiction. Particles really do have the possibility of, in some sense, being in more than one place at one time.

I wanted to avoid all that literary stuff. I didn't want the self pity of 'The Portrait,' all the moaning and the whingeing. I'm not knocking Joyce: we all owe him a debt. He's the one who made so much possible.

My style is to never say no.

Just knowing that there's somebody else out there - that what's happened on this planet has also happened in many other places - that might change our lives in a very subtle way, but it's interesting to know and worth looking for.

It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them.

Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box

You don't get lucky without preparation, and there's no sense in being prepared if you're not open to the possibility of a glorious accident.

Nothing is impossible for God.

That world opened up to me on my first visit to Atlanta during "Freaknik," a sort of spring break without the beach for black college kids. I wasn't in college, but I went anyway. While all the kids were getting numbed out, drinking and partying, I was waking up to possibility. For the first time in my life, I saw there were black people doing great things with their lives. There were black doctors, lawyers, business owners, and well-off families

Whatever is true is true, but not all truths are necessary truths. It is true that adding two pebbles to two pebbles makes four pebbles; but adding two drops of water to two drops can make one pool (Piaget, 1967d, p. 582). What this means is that the action of adding actual objects together can have alternative outcomes; the sum of adding two and two can be other than four – that is a real possibility, and no contradiction arises from this.

Is it possible that a contingent genesis can lead to necessary knowledge?

Never let the past close your wings to fly today to your future

All success stories begin with a dream.

Don't deny hope it's chance to work magic

The door to opportunity is always labeled 'push'.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

If there's reason to be afraid, then anything is possible.

The real question is whether the brighter future is really always so distant. What if, on the contrary, it has been here for a long time already, and only our own blindness and weakness has prevented us from seeing it around us and within us, and kept us from developing it?