Quotes About Possibilities

Chapman, M. (1988). Constructive evolution: Origins and development of Piaget's thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapman, M. (1992). Equilibration and the dialectics of organization. In H. Beilin & P. B. Pufall (Eds.), Piaget's theory: Prospects and possibilities (pp. 39–59). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

What is a creative person? It is someone who is willing to see the whole of life as an adventure, filled to the brim with exciting possibilities. He or she is willing where necessary to set aside old boundaries and to discover a new way of looking at things.

None of us knows all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.

Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.

None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.

What do we mean by individuality? It is a unified plurality, an enlargement of one's possibilities and their subordination to the principal purpose that determines all. Without a purpose, individuality does not exist.

With the right thoughts, the right actions, and the right relationships, whatever divine dreams rest in your heart are possible.

Success in America comes in over a million flavors... all you have you have to do is try one.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

Look for goodness in others, for beauty in the world, and for possibilities in yourself.

I am grateful that I didn't let fear get the best of me. It only holds you back from possibilities and greatness.

So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilities.

If I get a parking ticket, there is always a parallel universe where I didn't. On the other hand, there is yet another universe where my car was stolen.

It is true that we cannot make a genius. We can only give to teach child the chance to fulfil his potential possibilities.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few." At

When I was her age, thought Pauline, the options were confusing. They always are. Who'd be young? Everything wide open, which means that the not chosen is discarded. Junked.

He did not want to be young again -- that time had had particular and transcendent horrors -- but the thought of being any older filled him with panic. He could not imagine finding tranquility of soul in old age; if he could only be allowed to mark time for a while all might yet be well, one might suddenly achieve equilibrium, certainty, serenity. There would still be possibilities. Hopes.

Spirits have more possibilities for nearly everything than do bodies—for example, more pleasures and pains, and more subtle and profound pleasures and pains, than bodies.

As for paranoia, anyone who has the imagination to postulate all possibilities is automatically a paranoiac.

But she did not dial; she felt too listless and ill to want anything: a burden which closed off the future and any possibilities which it might have once contained.

about the possibilities of the Republicans and Democrats

Many Rationals are obsessed with speculative enquiry, so their speech tends to be laced with assumptions and presuppositions, probabilities and possibilities, postulates and premises, hypotheses and theorems.

But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more meaningful. I was going to be his friend, and was going to show him possibilities. And he, in turn, would become someone I could trust more than myself.

You think you know your possibilities. Then other people come into your life and suddenly there are so many more.