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Quotes About Possibilities

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.
~ Franz Kafka
There are possibilities for me, certainly, but under what stone do they lie?
~ Franz Kafka
If you're willing to take risks, Twitter is a vast amusement park of interesting life possibilities.
~ Amanda Palmer
I have the willingness to think fully about where opportunities are and where they live.
~ Theaster Gates
Hair excited me. As the old ways - backcombing, rollers and rigidity - went out of the window, I started to feel the possibilities in front of my eyes.
~ Vidal Sassoon
IBM isn't investing billions of dollars every year into research and development - and winning more patents than our top 10 competitors combined for more than a decade - as an academic exercise. But research is now being driven much more by what people need rather than just by what is possible.
~ Samuel J. Palmisano
Writers are naturally obsessed with books, the tangible artifacts of their labor. Even beyond the text, I love the physicality of books, the possibilities presented by their substance and form.
~ Ken Liu
I owe a debt of gratitude to two other living Justices. Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg paved the way for me and so many other women in my generation. Their pioneering lives have created boundless possibilities for women in the law. I thank them for their inspiration and also for the personal kindnesses they have shown me.
~ Elena Kagan
As we talk with candour, we open the doors to new possibilities and new areas of cooperation in advance in democracy, in combating terrorism, in energy and environment, science and technology and international peacekeeping.
~ Atal Bihari Vajpayee
The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
~ Salman Rushdie
One of the most important things in the digital world is being able to story-tell and help people envision the art of the possible with respect to different technologies.
~ Jamie S. Miller
I want to show people what the possibilities are if you take care of yourself and do the right thing.
~ Ben Vereen
I want to make 'Broadway' a word that doesn't have pejorative connotation. I don't want 'musical theater' to be a dismissive term. I want it to be something that people can be proud of, that people can say, 'Look at the possibilities.'
~ Thomas Kail
I can never say that I will never return to musical theatre. There may be a part in the future that I really want to do. I love plays as well. I am very open to ideas. I hope to do many things in the future.
~ Sarah Brightman
My representation overseas can't stand me doing theatre because it takes me out of action. But it's what I want to do. If it means passing up other possibilities, them's the breaks.
~ David Wenham
Peyton, I'm not married and you're not a lesbian. Think of the possibilities.
~ Robyn Carr
Thomas Edison not only failed his way to success, he insisted, "When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven't." When
~ Roger Connors
Having recognized that a choice needs to be made, you can now turn to the full range of possibilities you should consider. These might be versions of the options already identified.
~ Roger L. Martin
I find that most teams consider three to five possibilities in depth. On one aspect of this question, I am adamant: the team must produce more than one possibility. Otherwise, it never really started the strategy-making process because it didn't see itself as facing a choice. Analyzing a single possibility is not conducive to producing optimal action—or, in fact, any action at all.
~ Roger L. Martin
Tant la réalité a d'évidence ... Tant cette évidence s'impose! ... Dès que les choses sont arrivées, nous ne pensons même plus qu'elles auraient pu ne pas être ... Ou qu'elles auraient pu être toutes différentes.
~ Roger Martin du Gard
What is particularly curious about quantum theory is that there can be actual physical effects arising from what philosophers refer to as counterfactuals-that is, things that might have happened, although they did not in fact happen.
~ Roger Penrose
Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations.
~ Rollo May
Neurosis may be called a negating of possibilities; it is the shrinking up of one's world. The development of the self is this radically curtailed.
~ Rollo May
Your inspiration taps hidden reserves of promise that sustain people through times that induce despair. You enable people to envision a future that sustains the best from their past while also holding out new possibilities.
~ Ronald Heifetz