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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions. It seems almost as if progress itself and our fight against the increase of entropy intrinsically must end in the downhill path from which we are trying to escape.

  Norbert Wiener

  Fighting, Progress, Trying

  Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use Of Human Beings: Cybernetics And Society”, p.32, Hachette UK

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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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• The next thing you think, the next action you take, will either create a new possibility for you, or it will repeat the past.

  Deepak Chopra

  Thinking, Past, Next

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul: How to Create a New Self”, p.14, Random House

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• The houses [my first project in London] were reactions to the condition of the city and my frustrations with the norms that were being played out. In a way they were slightly subconscious but reactions to that condition and a way to posit new possibilities within certain pervasive norms.

  David Adjaye

  Frustration, Cities, House

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The capacity to innovate - the ability to solve problems creatively or bring new possibilities to life - and skills like critical thinking, communication and collaboration are far more important than academic knowledge.

  Tony Wagner

  Communication, Thinking, Skills

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• This is an early digital photograph for me. I started shooting digital some 10 years ago. I had been using Kodachrome for decades, but digital techniques offered me many new possibilities and incredible flexibility. It stimulated creation.

  Bruno Barbey

  Years, Digital, Technique

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• Developing a skill is painful, though. It is difficult. And that's part of the satisfaction. You will only find meaning in what you struggle with. What you struggle to get good at next may not seem the exact right thing for you at first. With time and effort, however, you will discover new possibilities in yourself-an ability to solve problems, for instance, or to communicate, or to create beauty.

  Atul Gawande

  Struggle, Skills, Effort

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• Like that lightning that comes out of the blue when there's not even a storm going on, just a crazy crack in the sky. With something like that right in front of you, you can't help but feel there's new possibilities out there.

  Marisha Pessl

  Crazy, Blue, Sky

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• Inspiration is the greatest gift because it opens your life to many new possibilities. Each day becomes more meaningful, and your life is enhanced when your actions are guided by what inspires you.

  Bernie Siegel

  Meaningful, Inspiration, Inspire

  Bernie S. Siegel (2010). “101 Exercises for the Soul: A Divine Workout Plan for Body, Mind, and Spirit”, p.87, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Imagination is all about new possibilities, eventualities that don't exist, counterfactuals, a recombination of elements in new ways. It is about the untested. And the untested is uncertain. It is frightening-even

  Maria Konnikova

  Imagination, Elements, Way

  Maria Konnikova (2013). “Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes”, p.99, Canongate Books

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• Hope and optimism are different. Optimism tends to be based on the notion that there's enough evidence out there to believe things are gonna be better, much more rational, deeply secular, whereas hope looks at the evidence and says, "It doesn't look good at all. Doesn't look good at all. Gonna go beyond the evidence to create new possibilities based on visions that become contagious to allow people to engage in heroic actions always against the odds, no guarantee whatsoever." That's hope. I'm a prisoner of hope, though. Gonna die a prisoner of hope.

  Cornel West

  Believe, Odds, People

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• Coming out of the trance of denial is painful. But crises offer us opportunities to rethink our lives. The best thing about despair is that it wakes us up. We can see the world more clearly and open to new possibilities...And we can find new joy in the ordinary.

  Mary Pipher

  Opportunity, Joy, Despair

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• If you're any kind of artist, you've got to ... keep opening yourself to new possibilities.

  Ian McDiarmid

  Artist, Kind, Possibility

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• To meditate is to discover new possibilities, to awaken the capacities of us has to live more wisely, more lovingly, more compassionately, and more fully.

  Jack Kornfield

  Possibility, Capacity

  Jack Kornfield (2012). “Meditation for Beginners: Six Guided Meditations for Insight, Inner Clarity, and Cultivating a Compassionate Heart”, p.6, Sounds True

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• The divine therapy helps us integrate our animal nature with the new possibilities of rational consciousness.

  Thomas Keating

  Animal, Helping, Consciousness

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Many of the greatest works of philosophy seem to me to be valuable not because of their arguments, but because they offer us perspectives that open up new possibilities. They show us how we might start in different places, and not buy into the assumptions tacitly made on the first pages of the philosophical works that have influenced us.

  Philip Kitcher

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Perspective

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Global sports tournaments have a range of benefits that go far beyond the games themselves. They can transform the image of a country or a region. They bring people together and reveal new possibilities to a nation's youth.

  Richard Attias

  Sports, Country, Games

  "Africa’s Olympic Potential" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 3, 2013.

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• What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them. Doubtless many times these new possibilities were declared by a man who, quite unconscious of courage, bore the "sense of being an exile, a condemned criminal, a fugitive from mankind." Did every one so feel who, in order to travel on his own proper path had been obliged to leave the traditional highway?

  Jane Addams

  Men, Race, Order

  Jane Addams (2010). “Peace and Bread in Time of War”, p.85, University of Illinois Press

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• LSD is a unique and powerful tool for the exploration of the human mind and human nature. Psychedelic experiences mediate access to deep realms of the psyche that have not yet been discovered and acknowledged by mainstream psychology and psychiatry. They also reveal new possibilities and mechanisms of therapeutic change and personality transformation.

  Stanislav Grof

  Powerful, Unique, Personality

  "LSD Psychotherapy". Book by Stanislav Grof, 1980.

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• There is no state of final fulfillment. Each change opens new doors and ushers in new possibilities.

  Margo Adair

  Change, Doors, Finals

  Margo Adair (1984). “Working Inside Out: Tools for Change”, Bookpeople

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• Every culture, if its natural development is not too much affected by political restrictions, experiences a perpetual renewal of the formative urge, and out of that comes an ever growing diversity of creative activity. Every successful piece of work stirs the desire for greater perfection and deeper inspiration; each new form becomes the herald of new possibilities of development.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Inspiration, Successful, Diversity

  Rudolf Rocker (2004). “Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice”, p.17, AK Press

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