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• Poetry's work is not simply the recording of inner or outer perception; it makes by words and music new possibilities of perceiving

  Jane Hirshfield

  Perception, Possibility, Words And Music

  Jane Hirshfield (2015). “Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World”, p.8, Knopf

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• Designers can show us a better future, can present us with all kinds of new possibilities so that we can decide: Is this what we want? Before any of that can happen, though, the designer must first commit—by taking what is just a faint glimmer in the mind’s eye and giving it shape and life.

  Warren Berger

  Eye, Giving, Mind

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• There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities.

  Ray Charles

  Firsts, Wheels, Possibility

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• Your inspiration taps hidden reserves of promise that sustain people through times that induce despair. You enable people to envision a future that sustains the best from their past while also holding out new possibilities.

  Ronald A. Heifetz

  Inspiration, Past, People

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• When a person applies enthusiasm to his job, the job will itself become alive with exciting new possibilities.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Jobs, Alive, Enthusiasm

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “Enthusiasm Makes the Difference”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• Some people say we can never achieve our special destiny, but I say, in a world of new possibilities guided by goodness, we can and we will.

  Bill Bradley

  Destiny, People, Special

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• Humility is the situation of the earth. It's there silent and accepting everything and in a miraculous way making out of all the refuse new richness...transforming corruption itself into a power of life and a new possibility of creativeness, open to the sunshine, open to the rain, ready to receive any seed we sow and capable of bringing thirtyfold, sixtyfold, a hundredfold out of every seed.

  Anthony of Sourozh

  Rain, Humility, Sunshine

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• You must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Education, Reading, Learning

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• But it will depend on young people like you being open to new ideas and new possibilities. And it will require young people like you never to stereotype or assume the worst about other people.

  Barack Obama

  Ideas, People, Empathy

  "Obama Holds a Town Hall in Istanbul". Speech in a Town Hall, Istanbul, Turkey, www.washingtonpost.com. April 7, 2009.

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• The best educators I have met never stop asking questions. Some of them have taught for forty years and continue to be energized by new possibilities.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Years, Asking Questions, Taught

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• Today, women have access to the technological capacity to do anything to our bodies in the struggle for "beauty", but we have yet to evolve a mentality beyond the old rules, to let them imagine that this combat among women is not inevitable. Surgeons can now do anything. We have not yet reached the age in which we can defend ourselves with an unwillingness to have "anything" done. This is a dangerous time. New possibilities for women quickly become new obligations.

  Naomi Wolf

  Struggle, Age, Done

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• We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have been opened to us. We don't want to close a book with a sense that life is totally unfair and that there is no light in the darkness; we want to feel that we have been given illumination.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Book, Light, Illumination

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.97, Convergent Books

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• But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.

  Seamus Heaney

  Mean, Perception, Brutality

  Seamus Heaney (2014). “Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996”, p.421, Macmillan

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• The normal person classifies an object, and then forgets about it. The creative person, by contrast, is always open to new possibilities.

  Jordan Peterson

  Creativity, Creative, Normal

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• New possibilities for a more active democracy are beginning to emerge in the information age. Effective citizen action is possible if citizens develop the abilities to gain access to information of all kinds and the skills to put such information to effective use.

  Harry Boyte

  Skills, Age, Democracy

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• Creativity is a lot like looking at the world through a kaleidoscope. You look at a set of elements, the same ones everyone else sees, but then reassemble those floating bits and pieces into an enticing new possibility.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Leadership, Creativity, Kaleidoscope

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• It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them.

  Robert Musil

  Men, Average, Ideas

  Robert Musil (2015). “The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic”, p.18, Pan Macmillan

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• I am convinced that when we bring our griefs and sorrows within the story of God's own grief and sorrow, and allow them to be held there, God is able to bring healing to us and new possibilities to our lives. That is, of course, what Good Friday and Easter are all about.

  N. T. Wright

  Friday, Easter, Grief

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• Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.

  Norbert Wiener

  Future, Math, Progress

  Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.46, Da Capo Press

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• Voices of Transition educates, opens minds to new possibilities and presents a new vision of how our food system could be. As a historic transition unfolds, this film is a very powerful tool.

  Rob Hopkins

  Powerful, Voice, Mind

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• A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope.

  Howard Thurman

  Dream, Hope, New Horizons

  Howard Thurman (1963). “Disciplines of the spirit”, Friends United Pr

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• The anticipation of discovering new possibilities becomes my greatest joy.

  Jerry Uelsmann

  Joy, Anticipation, Possibility

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• Reality is ultimately a selective act of perception and interpretation. A shift in our perception and interpretation enables us to break old habits and awaken new possibilities for balance, healing, and transformation.

  David Simon

  Healing, Reality, Old Habits

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• When you take action, particularly bold action, the boundaries of what you believe to be possible (your belief system) expand. Which, in turn, gives you the capacity to consider new ideas, new possibilities, and new concepts that you previously thought to be impossible.

  Robert Ringer

  Believe, Ideas, Giving

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• The obstacles in our path are not blocking us-they are redirecting us. Their purpose is not to interfere with our happiness; it is to point us toward new routes to our happiness, new possibilities, new doorways.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Block, Purpose, Doorways

  FaceBook post by Dr. Barbara De Angelis from Oct 26, 2012

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