Quotes About Possibility

Life doesn't give you what you want; it gives you a version of what you can have. March 18, 2022 'The Empirical Observations of Algernon' (vol. II)

Life doesn't give you what you want; it gives you a version of what you can have.

Relax. There is zero chance of Putin blackmailing Trump. Blackmail depends on the possibility of embarrassment. Allan Whittow Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire

As I followed the accounts of Tibetan pilgrims, as well as those of Victorian and Edwardian explorers, Pemako became for me a realm of unbounded possibility, a place where geographical exploration merged with discoveries of the spirit.

A pen is never worthless. In the right hand, it holds a whole world and all the treasures you could ever want. Now write your story. All of it.

The German sociologist Niklas Luhmann once observed that the simple act of asking yourself, "Where did I put my keys?" performs unexpected magic: it transforms the world into a catalog of possible key locations.1 Under the couch, somewhere the dog or the baby moved

Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.

And the conviction stands that there must be knowledge to be had, if only we could get it. Perhaps that is what is wrong: an assumption about the possibility of knowledge and the kind of knowledge that it must be.

Desigur, viitorul este mereu deschis, niciodat? clar sau predeterminat de o cale unic? de urmat.

When we stop believing in God, we don't suddenly believe in "nothing" … we believe anything.

Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.

It is not 'Have I got a chance?' It is more often: 'Have I seen my chance?

Why did I do such-and-such a thing?' is all very well. But what about 'How otherwise could I have done it?

Why did I do such-and-such a thing?' is all very well. But what about 'How otherwise could I have done it?'.

Por qué hice tal y cual cosa?" está muy bien. Pero qué hay con "¿De qué otra forma podría haberlo hecho?".

El hombre (tal como él se imagina que es) es, en general, una posibilidad, no un hecho.

Por qué hice tal y cual cosa?' está muy bien. Pero qué hay con '¿De qué otra forma podría haberlo hecho?

Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.

Everyday, Jay would sit under a giant elm tree and imagine the adventures his life might bring.

Behind our behaviors are our beliefs. They determine how we think things are and what is possible. The foundation of these beliefs is our conception of who we are, whether we are conscious of it or not.

I do enjoy reading some science fiction.

So Major Murphy was perhaps correct. This research project was beyond a simple scientific problem that was amenable to standard hypothesis-driven science. It involved hunting a very wily quarry. And NIDS constantly had to accept the possibility that any information acquired in this hunt was only the information that the intelligence (assuming that we were in fact dealing with an intelligence) wanted us to have.

Deeply stare upward towards the world beyond and imagine every possibility.

Not born royal or rich was I, but with a mind imaginative in all directions.