Quotes of Possibility - somelinesforyou

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

- Shunryu Suzuki

“ It's a great opportunity for me and hopefully a great opportunity for the state of Pennsylvania to make some changes. ”

- Lynn Swann

“ Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion. ”

- William Lloyd Garrison

“ Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty. ”

- Lionel Trilling

“ The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today. ”

- Les Brown

“ There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature — the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick. ”

- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“ We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist. ”

- Queen Victoria

“ We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities. ”

- Henry Bolingbroke

“ The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone. ”

- Orison S. Marden

“ There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been… ”

- Charles Fillmore

“ Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities — always see them, for they're always there. ”

- Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

“ God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed — that is the meaning of evolution. ”

- Graham Greene

“ Now the whole dizzying and delirious range of sexual possibilities has been boiled down to that one big, boring, bulimic word. RELATIONSHIP. ”

- Julie Burchill

“ The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities. ”

- Susan Sontag

“ The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good. ”

- Brian Tracy

“ Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium. ”

- Ansel Adams

“ Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work. ”

- Thomas Alva Edison

“ It fills one with a sense of architectural possibility. ”

- Paul Goldberger

“ One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. ”

- Abraham Maslow

“ To me the synthesizer was always a source of new sounds that musicians could use to expand the range of possibilities for making music. ”

- Robert Moog

“ It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia. ”

- Frank Zappa

“ We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognized them. ”

- Ann Landers

“ God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution. ”

- Graham Greene

“ When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. ”

- Alexander Graham Bell

“ As the essence of courage is to stake one's life on a possibility, so the essence of faith is to believe that the possibility exists. ”

- William Salter

“ The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility. ”

- John Lennon

“ Opportunity knocked. My doorman threw him out. ”

- Adrienne Gusoff

“ Where things have not changed at all, there is the least likelihood of revolution. ”

- Eric Hoffer
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