Possibility Quotes
2817 quotes by 1843 authors
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The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of…
— George Orwell
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I believe in God, which means I am open to some absurd possibilities. But I understand the power of that faith, and I understand the…
— Reza Aslan
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One does not think during creative work, any more than one thinks when driving a car. But one has a background of years - learning,…
— Edward Weston
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We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.
— Edward Abbey
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We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there.…
— Edward Abbey
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It is all very well, in these changing times, to adapt one's work to take in duties not traditionally within one's realm; but bantering is…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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There's an idea that it's hard to be a woman artist. People assume that women have fewer opportunities, less power. But it's not any harder…
— Annie Leibovitz
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To see something spectacular and recognise it as a photographic possibility is not making a very big leap. But to see something ordinary, something you’d…
— Stephen Shore
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If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it?
— Lee Strasberg
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Marilyn always dreamt of being an actress. She didn't, by the way, dream of being just a star. She dreamt of being an actress. And…
— Lee Strasberg
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I can remember being eight years old and having infinite possibilities. But life ends up being so much less that we thought it would be…
— Adam Duritz
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Most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor.
— John Dickinson
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I'm more interested in, you know, SpaceX and Tesla, what's going to happen with our intergalactic possibilities.
— Lana Del Rey
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We fear our highest possibilities. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments, under conditions of great…
— Abraham Maslow
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There seems no intrinsic reason why everyone shouldn't be (self-actualising). Apparently every baby has possibilities for self-actualisation, but most get it knocked out of them…
— Abraham Maslow
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The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that…
— Allan Bloom
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Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again. If somewhere in the Hollywood-entertainment world someone has managed to break through with something…
— Pauline Kael
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When the rational mind is shut off, we have the possibility of intuition.
— Viola Spolin
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The threat to man does not come in the first instance from the potentially lethal machines and apparatus of technology. The actual threat has already…
— Martin Heidegger
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This inability to think created the possibility for many ordinary men to commit evil deeds on a gigantic scale, the like of which had never…
— Hannah Arendt
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