Quotes About Possibility

When you go looking for something specific, your chances of finding it are very bad. Because of all the things in the world, you're only looking for one of them. When you go looking for anything at all, your chances of finding it are very good.

The first problem is we don't believe holiness is possible. The second problem is we don't believe we can change the world.

Most people live and die without even scratching the surface of their potential.

Every moment is just another chance to turn it all around. It's not too late, and that is a truly wonderful thing.

But you don't prove anything at all when you say it's something you just can't imagine happening.

L'utopie ne signifie pas l'irréalisable, mais l'irréalisé. L'utopie d'hier peut devenir la réalité d'aujourd'hui.

E]vil as an ontological presence exists in the very structure of being as part of a totality comprising opposites. Moreover, it exists because being is a structure and process of possibility, and possibility requires all options . . . Maat and isfet and their innumerable variations.

The disaster... is what escapes the very possibility of experience—it is the limit of writing. This must be repeated: the disaster de-scribes.

Lo que atrae al escritor, lo que hace vibrar al artista, no es directamen­te la obra, sino su búsqueda, el movimiento que conduce a ella, la aproximación de lo que hace posible a la obra: el arte, la literatura y lo que disimulan estas dos palabras. - El libro que vendrá. (p. 223)

A 'world' has dimensions. By definition they are not the sole possible ones.

There is the possible in the organism. The embryo is not simple matter, but matter which refers to the future.

With the first sign, a halo of the possible appears, which was not contained in the first sign and which was unforeseeable from it,

It is not true that everything is actual; there is an actuality of the possible as possible, that is, the notion of an outline, the being of becoming actual that is certain possibilities.

There is a sort of maleficence in history: it solicits men, tempts them so that they believe they are moving in its direction, and then suddenly it unmasks, and events change and prove that there was another possibility. The men whom history abandons in this way and who see themselves simply as accomplices suddenly find themselves the instigators of a crime to which history has inspired them. And they are unable to look for excuses or to excuse themselves from even a part of the responsibility.

The possible is the openness of the perceived world and not a system of logical Being in which we would be set up through idealization.

The libido precisely is not a univocal orientation toward a sexual organ, but a fantastic polymorphism, a possibility of diverse 'sexual positions.' It is thus a field, a polarity, the initiation to a dimension, that is, to a body - world 'ray.

The search for the conditions of possibility is in principle posterior to an actual experience, and from this it follows that even if subsequently one determines rigorously the sine qua non of that experience, it can never be washed of the original stain of having been discovered post festum nor ever become what positively founds that experience.

Our ideas, however limited they may be at a given moment—since they always express our contact with being and with culture—are capable of being true provided we keep them open to the field of nature and culture which they must express. And this possibility is always open to us, just because we are temporal.

There is an equipotentiality in tissue. A tissue gives the possible beyond its actual structure.

And yet we are given a chance as the Side-Octave shews.

When you love someone you leave every possibility open to them, and in spite of all the memories of the past you are ready to be surprised, again and again surprised, at how different they are, how various, not a finished image.

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs.

I failed once in the past, so I will probably fail in the future" is neither logical nor rational. To conclude "I can't" in advance, without trying, and in the absence of any evidence to support the inevitability of failure, is not rational. We should be more like the man who was asked if he could play the piano. "I don't know," he said. "What do you mean you don't know?" he was asked. "I have never tried," he replied.

Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.