Top 100 Quotes About What Is Possible
#1. Art serves us best precisely at that point where it can shift our sense of what is possible, when we know more than we knew before, when we feel we have - by some manner of a leap - encountered the truth. That, by the logic of art, is always worth the pain.
T. S. Eliot
#2. To fight for each minute is to
fight for what is possible within
yourself,
so that your life and your death
will not be like
theirs.
Charles Bukowski
#3. The rules on what is possible and impossible in the arts were made by people who had not tested the bounds of the possible by going beyond them.
Neil Gaiman
#4. The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it's to imagine what is possible.
Bell Hooks
#5. Peace is something that we can bring about if we can actually learn to wake up a bit more as individuals and a lot more as a species; if we can learn to be fully what we actually already are; to reside in the inherent potential of what is possible for us, being human.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#6. Scientific theories tell us what is possible; myths tell us what is desirable. Both are needed to guide proper action.
John Maynard Smith
#7. We started MakerBot in 2009 and made a conscious decision to educate people with the possibilities they could do with 3D printing and share with people what is possible.
Bre Pettis
#8. In the years ahead of me, I learned that the world is actually filled with people ready to tell you how likely something is, and what it means to be realistic. But what I have also learned is that no one, no one truly knows what is possible until they go and do it.
Liz Murray
#9. It's difficult sometimes to tell the difference between what is impossible and what is possible (but requires a big reach). At a creative company, mistaking one for the other can be fatal - but getting it right always elevates.
Ed Catmull
#10. To teach is to show what is possible; to learn is to make yourself possible.
Paulo Coelho
#11. Energy follows thought; we move toward, but not beyond, what we can imagine. What we assume, expect, or believe creates and colors our experience. By expanding our deepest beliefs about what is possible, we change our experience of life.
Dan Millman
#12. What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#13. The mystics are the only ones who have gained a glimpse into what is possible when this same capacity [for creation] is used primarily in the service of the individual himself instead of for the creation of art.
Beatrice M. Hinkle
#14. Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible
Cherie Carter-Scott
#15. By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.
Mikhail Bakunin
#16. It is the job of the historian to say what is likely, and of faith to say what is possible.
Reza Aslan
#17. In a world which is armed to its teeth with nuclear weapons, every quarrel or difference of opinion may lead to violence of a kind quite different from what is possible today.
Herman Kahn
#18. Possibilitas tua mensura tua'(What is possible to you is what you will be measured by).
Richard Sibbes
#19. I learned that if we embrace what's happening, we are also embracing what is possible - and a road opens up for God to meet us halfway.
Suzan-Lori Parks
#20. Impatience can be very good by helping us not put up with tyranny, but it can distort our view of what is possible and how to bring about change. We have to cultivate patience so that our perception isn't distorted.
Paul Ekman
#22. A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
Graham Greene
#23. That's what I'm interested in: the space in between, the moment of imagining what is possible and yet not knowing what that is.
Julie Mehretu
#24. What is possible in the Cavendish Laboratory may not be too difficult in the sun.
Arthur Eddington
#25. War is obsolete. We are not here to fight something or tear something down; We are here to be the example of what is possible. Any sane individual will tell you that violence is ... not the way ...
R. Buckminster Fuller
#26. My purpose is to teach and demonstrate what is possible. To demonstrate love of God and good. Remember what my role is as a woman: to be ... good. My role as a mother: to teach, support and nurture my offspring. My role as a grandmother: to remind everybody - right where you are, God is.
Iyanla Vanzant
#27. We act upon assumptions that control our view of reality, even though reality might be quite different ... By definition, what is unthinkable isn't part of our reality ... your assumptions about what is possible prevent you from accurately seeing the reality before you.
David Morrell
#28. I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.
Michelle Obama
#29. Vision stands on the shoulders of what is actual to get a better view of what is possible.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#31. Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
George Santayana
#32. What is possible for you in Christ Jesus depends on your capacity to believe.
T. B. Joshua
#34. when we lose our commitment to accuracy, honesty, and justice, we lose our ability to make a difference, because we also lose our vision of what is possible. Harlan
Harlan Ellison
#35. Never be limited by others' inability to think of you in terms big enough or dreams grand enough. Never allow yourself to define what is possible for you in your life by others' limited vision of what they believe is possible for them in theirs.
Judy M. Ford
#36. A thought comes into her head: that lately she doesn't ask herself what is possible, but rather what possibilities remain.
Carol Shields
#37. To dream only of what is 'possible' is to be fooled into believing that one is dreaming in the first place.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#38. Celebrate what is possible. Your beliefs will create your reality.
Shirley Maclaine
#39. Live and dwell in endless possibilities to find out what is possible.
Debasish Mridha
#40. Art is a place for children to learn to trust their ideas, themselves, and to explore what is possible.
MaryAnn F. Kohl
#41. We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible.
Paul Farmer
#42. Behind our behaviors are our beliefs. They determine how we think things are and what is possible. The foundation of these beliefs is our conception of who we are, whether we are conscious of it or not.
Ilchi Lee
#43. Once a man sees what is possible and makes just a few changes, a whole new world opens up where he finds opportunities that he couldn't see before.
Roosh V
#44. Moore's Law is really a thing about human activity, it's about vision, it's about what you're allowed to believe. Because people are really limited by their beliefs, they limit themselves by what they allow themselves to believe about what is possible.
Carver Mead
#45. Mystery is a birthright of theology and faith, but you often do find religious people grasping for answers that shut things down and narrow what is possible.
Krista Tippett
#46. TRAVEL BREATHES new life into our sense of what is possible, and allows us to see our lives from a new perspective. When was the last time a new location opened up something new in you?
Shauna Niequist
#47. As in all such technological nightmares, the principal task is to foresee what is possible; to educate use and misuse; and to prevent its organizational, bureaucratic and governmental abuse.
Carl Sagan
#48. Self-pity is the campsite of self-defeat; it is a dark refuge for those parts of us that would rather wallow in what cannot be than dare to explore what is possible.
Guy Finley
#49. Any time where the delta b/w what is possible and how things work today is at its widest, that's an opportunity to go build new technology.
Aaron Levie
#51. Hope dreams into being what is possible but not yet formed.
Sharon Weil
#52. Funnily enough, Northern Ireland is a great example of where politics can win over conflict. The decision to down arms and follow a political path would have been unthinkable once. It shows just what is possible.
James Nesbitt
#53. Fear is a scavenger who feeds on the future; on what may be and what is possible, extending down the line of our lives.
John Scalzi
#54. To move forward, simply set your intentions, be grateful for what you have, be open to what is possible, and the rest will happen, as a beautiful and effortless journey of cooperation and listening.
Bryant McGill
#55. One should not study what is best, but also what is possible, and similarly what is easier and more attainable by all.
Aristotle.
#56. I want every day to be a fresh start on expanding what is possible.
Oprah Winfrey
#57. Sang Ly, we are literature-our lives, our hopes, our desires, our despairs, our passions, our strengths, our weaknesses. Stories express our longing not only to make a difference today but to see what is possible for tomorrow. Literature has been called a handbook for the art of being human.
Camron Wright
#58. In order to believe clients' accounts of trauma, you need to suspend any pre-conceived notions that you have about what is possible and impossible in human experience. As simple as they may sound, it may be difficult to do so.
Aphrodite Matsakis
#59. Science is concerned with what is possible while engineering is concerned with choosing, from among the many possible ways, one that meets a number of often poorly stated economic and practical objectives.
Richard Hamming
#60. Start creating a life you desire, bringing your dreams to life, taking what is then turning it around to create what is possible.
Steven Redhead
#61. We must remind ourselves that to do what is possible we must sometimes challenge ourselves with the impossible.
Jim Rohn
#62. Confidence is consistency of thinking about what is possible and how to make it possible.
John Eliot
#63. I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nature of making art - not being naive about what is possible and getting what you need to tell the story you want to tell.
Ira Sachs
#64. All connections are infused with dreams of what is possible in the future. Thus, when we lose something or someone important to us, we aren't just grieving the loss, we are grieving the shattered dream.
Bill Crawford
#65. Compare birth with death, compare death with life; compare what is possible with what is not possible and compare what is not possible with what is possible; because there is, there is not, and because there is not, there is.
Zhuangzi
#66. We can only do what is possible for us to do. But still it is good to know what the impossible is.
Maria Irene Fornes
#67. Never let the limitations or insecurities of others limit what is possible for you.
Hal Elrod
#68. Upgrading one's imagination about what is possible is always a leap of faith.
Clay Shirky
#69. Sometimes we misjudge what is possible and what is not.
Aimee Carter
#70. I look at things and try to imagine what is possible and then hope to surpass those boundaries.
Michael Jackson
#71. You are not even aware of what is possible. The extent of their capabilities is horrifying. We can plant bugs in machines. Once you go on the network, I can identify your machine. You will never be safe whatever protections you put in place.
Edward Snowden
#72. But there's a world beyond what we can see and touch, and that world lives by its own laws. What may be impossible in this very ordinary world is very possible there, and sometimes the boundaries between the two worlds disappear, and then who can say what is possible and impossible?
David Eddings
#73. Science has everything to say about what is possible. Science has nothing to say about what is permissible.
Charles Krauthammer
#74. Politics is the art of achieving political goals - of achieving what is possible in a given situation - that is, in a situation that has its conditions and its limits.
Adam Michnik
#75. Modern man worships at the temple of science, but science tells him only what is possible, not what is right.
Milton S. Eisenhower
#76. What is possible and what is not possible is not objectively known but is, rather, a subjective belief on the part of the author and of the reader.
Philip K. Dick
#77. Because of their very nature, science and logical thinking can never decide what is possible or impossible. Their only function is to explain what has been ascertained by experience and observation.
Rudolf Steiner
#79. In life, most people surrender what is possible for what is comfortable.
Orrin Woodward
#80. The impossible is negotiable.
What is possible is malleable.
David Mitchell
#81. Sometimes the longer you are inside a prison, the harder it is to fathom what is possible beyond its walls.
Suki Kim
#82. Yes we dream of our selves, of what we will become," Chi Ling told me, "but it's the environment that tells us what is possible. I don't think our dreams are limitless; they are bounded by the society we live in and its conception of what is respectable and good.
Julie Lythcott-Haims
#83. We have to create miracles. A miracle is not the intersession of an external divine agency in violation of the laws of physics. A miracle is simply something that is impossible from an old story but possible from within a new one. It is an expansion of what is possible.
Charles Eisenstein
#84. 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
#85. One effect of sustained conflict is to narrow our vision of what is possible.
Nelson Mandela
#86. We must live a genuine life in order to discover personal happiness and self-fulfillment. Understanding that a person is living a lie is the first step into realizing what is possible. No matter how frightful such a proposition is, we must dare to be an original self.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#87. The images we see, as a culture, help define and expand our dreams, our perceptions of what is possible. Pictures of who we are help us visualize who we can be.
Tee Corinne
#88. Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible.
Ambrose Bierce
#89. Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Francis Of Assisi
#90. Nothing is lost that we do not first see as lost. Visions born of fear give birth to our failing.
Visions born of hope give birth to our success.
What is possible lives within us, and it only remains for us to discover it.
Terry Brooks
#91. Accepting that a person will die and shucking off any aversion to this blunt thought awakens the mind to realize what is possible in a human life.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#92. Good players develop a tactical instinct, a sense of what is possible or likely and what is not worth calculating.
Samuel Reshevsky
#93. The public does not know what is possible. We do.
Akio Morita
#94. Imagine everything you're experiencing now being a hundred times more wonderful. Bad turns good; good turns great. THAT IS WHAT IS POSSIBLE.
Marianne Williamson
#95. I'm an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I'm always looking to extend the boundaries.
Ai Weiwei
#96. Ultimately it come down to, are you making or are you destroying? If you try very hard to create ways of living, create dreams of what is possible, then you win. If you don't, you may make a fortune in ten years, but you're not going to be read in twenty years, and that's that.
John Gardner
#97. You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible.
Jonathan Kozol
#98. Why do I read? To know that I am alive. To know that hope and humanity exist in the world. To remember that some people spend years of their life, not watching reality TV or pornography, but trying to create something meaningful and lasting and beautiful. I read to know what is possible.
Gea Haff
#99. The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.
Robert Fripp
#100. That is the wonderful ecological mind that Gregory Bateson talks about - the patterns that connect, the stories that inform and inspire us and teach us what is possible
Terry Tempest Williams
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