Quotes About Possibility

You start with your 1, and then you suspend judgment on what you're doing, because you don't know what you have when you start. No one does.

What new and good thing is going to come out of even this? When you ask this question, you have taken something that was out of your control and reframed it as another opportunity to take part in the ongoing creation of the world.

It's at the end of ourselves that new futures open up.

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. Robert A. Heinlein

What one man can do, another man can do.

Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds.

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

We're simply trying to survive—and the first principle of survival is not to worry about the impossible and concentrate on what's possible.

Robert A. Heinlein

Anything which is physically possible can be made financially possible, if the people of a state desire it.

Robert A. Heinlein

The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable

Robert A. Heinlein

Believe it possible that you can float off the ground and fly by merely willing it. See what happens.

In short, we don't need to postulate a supernatural Designer. Our experiments create the universe observed by our experiments — which when interpreted always yield an Anthropic universe, rather than any of the millions or billions of possible non-Anthropic universes — because we designed the experiments.

Between choices, we evidently return to the maybe state until we make another choice. Existence precedes essence, remember?

Man is ignorant of the nature of his own being and powers. Even his idea of his limitations is based on experience of the past. There is therefore no reason to assign theoretical limits to what he may be, or what he may do. — Aleister Crowley, Magick

She radiated a kind of excitement, the possibility of infinite promise. It wasn't just me. Most people seemed to feel that spending time with Susan would be an adventure.

We're fifteen," he said. "And we found each other already? Is that possible? Can you find somebody at fifteen?

Once you began speculation about that, once you admited to yourself that you didn't really know how another person's mind operated, then you came up against the ultimate admission—anything was possible.

once you admitted to yourself that you didn't really know how another person's mind operated, then you came up against the ultimate admission—anything was possible.

They say it is possible to see stars from the bottom of a well when the sun is shining.

The possibility of sadness is tightly bound to the capacity for joy. A godly sadness is as precious in the eyes of the Lord as the joy that corresponds to it.

Self-interest at its healthiest implicitly recognizes the self-interest of others, and therein lies the possibility of compromise. A rigid moral position admits few compromises.