Quotes of Probability - somelinesforyou

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

- Shunryu Suzuki

“ Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born. ”

- Dale Turner

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

- Queen Victoria

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

- Les Brown

“ 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

“ 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

“ The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed. - Reflections on Life. ”

- Alexis Carrel

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

- Lionel Trilling

“ You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk. ”

- Rosalynn Carter

“ No one ever yet was the poorer in the long run for having once in a lifetime, let out all the length of all the reins. ”

- Mary Cholmondeley

“ The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong. ”

- Andy Rooney

“ If I had some idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago? ”

- Richard M. DeVos

“ Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it. ”

- Amelia Earhart

“ So that every man lawfully ordained must bring a bow which hath two strings, a title of present right and another to provide for future possibility or chance. ”

- Richard Hooker

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

- Susan Sontag

“ 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

“ Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering. ”

- Abraham H. Maslow

“ What to one man is the virtue which he has sunk below the possibility of aspiring to, is to another the backsliding by which he forfeits his spiritual crown. ”

- George Eliot

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

- Graham Greene

“ 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

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

- Paul Goldberger

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

- Henry Bolingbroke

“ It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. ”

- Kehlog Albran

“ Education is helping the child realize his potentialities. ”

- Erich Fromm

“ If you have a vision, do something with it. ”

- Anthony J. D’Angelo

“ I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything. ”

- Thomas H. Huxley

“ Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. ”

- Dag Hammarskjold

“ 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

“ There is no such thing as no chance. ”

- Henry Ford

“ The awakening has begun! ”

- William Dempsey
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