Quotes About Possibilities

There still seems to be a lack of film for the baby boomer generation, if you'd like to call it that. And I think 'Martin Bonner' showed what's possible. Later in life, when you've been working at something for a long time, to actually get some kudos for what you do is wonderful.

I have a few travel restrictions, so I'm not even sure if I can get into America. So I have some limitations on what I can do.

There's so much overlapping in science fiction.

I used to read a lot of science fiction when I was younger.

If I couldn't be an actor, I would only consider being an astronaut, a sea otter, or a gynecologist.

I used to comfort myself with the idea of a book with serrated, detachable pages, so that you could read the thing the way it came and then shuffle the pages, like a giant deck of cards, and read the book in an entirely different order. It would be a different book, wouldn't it? It would be one of infinite books.

In order to improve conditions on Earth, people must love. Love satisfies every need. It contains all good conditions and possibilities. It is a mighty transformer of all forces. A special light emanates from the person who has been visited by love. (14)

I believe that architecture today needs to reflect on the task and possibilities which are inherently its own. Architecture is not a vehicle or a symbol for things that do not belong to its essence. In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings, and speak its own language.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.

Counterfactuals highlight how radically open the possibilities once were and how easily our best-laid plans can be blown away by flapping butterfly wings. Immersion in what-if history can give us a visceral feeling for Taleb's vision of radical indeterminacy.

Tu n'étais pas comme les autres car tu regardais toujours au-delà des choses… Tu voulais toujours voir ce qui n'existait pas.

Les limites existent seulement dans l'esprit de ceux qui ne savent pas rêver.

You [Mankind] have been given no particular function. You may give your life whatever form you choose, do whatever you wish … you have no limitations, and can act in accord with your own free will. You alone can choose the limits of your nature.

hiérarchie des genres et, à l'intérieur de ceux-ci, la légitimité relative des styles et des auteurs est une dimension fondamentale de l'espace des possibles. Bien qu'elle soit à chaque moment un enjeu de luttes, elle se présente comme un donné avec lequel on doit compter, fût-ce pour s'y opposer et le transformer.

Only in imaginary experience (in the folk tale, for example), which neutralizes the sense of social realities, does the social world take the form of a universe of possibles equally possible for any possible subject.

Podríamos decir, además, que hay en la humanidad un estoicismo universal, quiero decir con ello que la actitud que llamamos «estoica» es una de las posibilidades permanentes y fundamentales del ser humano, cuando busca la sabiduría.

Denys Cowan and Dwayne Turner's visions of Wakanda as an ersatz African Epcot Center opened my eyes to the unexploited possibilities; these men, both of whom are African American, together with writer Peter B. Gillis, created an African Asgard of sorts, and I just went, 'Oh, my.'

It is the closest instrument to the human voice, and the things you can do on the cello... there are endless possibilities.

In my own art, I try to use my personal voice and effort to enable some Chinese people to see the possibilities of another kind of China. A more open China.

While growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, I dreamed of becoming many things: an archaeologist, an ambassador, an actor, an author.

the habits of the governed determine in a great degree what is practicable.

There was no abstraction that couldn't be tracer fire, or the smoke of black powder, or a hollow-point's flowering. The body was worldlike in the repleteness of its possibilities, and just as no part of this little world was safe from a bullet's penetration, no form in the big world had no echo in a gun.

He loved New York. He hated it. It was a cathedral of possibilities, it would never settle down.

And yet and yet - the last secret of the tree of codes is that nothing can ever reach a definite conclusion. Nowhere as much as there do we feel possibilities shaken by the nearness of realization. The atmosphere becomes possibilities and we shall wander and make a thousand mistakes. We shall wander along yet not be able to understand.