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Quotes About Possibilities

Probable impossibilities are always to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
~ Aristotle
Most of the things about which we make decisions, and into which therefore we inquire, present us with alternative possibilities.
~ Aristotle
Being gay has taught me tolerance, compassion and humility. It has shown me limitless possibilities of living. It has given me people whose passion and kindness and sensitivity have provided a constant source of strength. It has brought me into the family of man, Mama, and I like it here.
~ Armistead Maupin
Absolute parallelism of stylistic approach in the different arts and genres presupposes a level of development on which art no longer has to wrestle for the means of expression, but is able, to a certain extent, to choose freely among the different possibilities of formal treatment.
~ Arnold Hauser
You only have a true choice when you know what opportunities are out there and what qualifications you need.
~ Esther McVey
I think when you get Robert Griffin, one of the most explosive quarterbacks to ever play the position, in a Mike Shanahan-type system, the possibilities are very exciting, I think, with Mike Shanahan's imagination.
~ Jon Gruden
I don't think of myself predicting things. I'm expressing possibilities. Things that could happen. To a large extent it's a question of how badly people want them to.
~ Freeman Dyson
Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.
~ Joan Baez
I actually enjoy the fantasy world quite a bit. You have no boundaries.
~ Ramin Djawadi
I can't imagine raising a child with a goal of that child being a baseball player or a lawyer or whatever. Odds are, they'll be something else. In this world, there are a lot of opportunities.
~ Oliver Luck
The aggregate of everybody's emotion, it's such a powerful thing. You can see it in the Trump rallies, where people - I just know, in their living rooms, would be better people - are driven to the worst possibilities by the bloodlust in a crowd. It just gets ginned up, and they're outside of themselves.
~ Meryl Streep
From the moment we started working on the first 'Wreck-It Ralph,' we knew there were so many possibilities with these characters.
~ Rich Moore
Wakanda is the Marvel world's most technologically advanced nation, and offensives there can have ramifications everywhere, so that leaves open great possibilities for cameos.
~ Brian Stelfreeze
The plausible outcomes range from the gradual and benign to the more precipitous and damaging.
~ Timothy Geithner
Whenever I start a project, I have a broad range of possibilities.
~ Shaun Tan
With 'Game of Thrones,' there are no real limitations.
~ Nathalie Emmanuel
I don't believe in ghosts, but I believe in aliens and alternate dimensions.
~ Matt Duffer
Now and again an echo of Chopin's music rings in my ears, and this much you absorb me that, at such moments I always think of you and lose myself in meditating about possibilities.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I write for children because I am interested in fantasy and the possibilities for experience of all kinds before the time of compromise. I believe that children are far more perceptive and wise than American books give them credit for being.
~ Natalie Babbitt
At some point in the idea process, I simply wear myself down and force myself to choose. But here's the thing: Once I do choose, suddenly all the other possibilities wither and die, and thus I never have a backlog of well-formed ideas waiting for me when my latest book gets finished.
~ Erik Larson
I believe there are so many other disciplines and themes that we still haven't explored yet. It's infinite what we can apply our creativity to.
~ Guy Laliberte
If you ask almost any of them, 'Do you stand behind your theory? Is this the answer?' I think almost everyone would say, 'No, no, no. I'm just trying to expand the range of possibilities.' We really don't know what's going on.
~ Saul Perlmutter
I believe that the therapist's function should be to help people become free to be aware of and to experience their possibilities.
~ Rollo May
Our economy is built upon convergent thinkers, people that execute things, get them done. But artists and designers are divergent thinkers: they expand the horizon of possibilities.
~ John Maeda