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• A child is a person in whom all possibilities are present - present now at this very moment - not to be educed after many years and efforts manifold on the part of the educator

  Charlotte Mason

  Children, Years, Effort

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “The Original Home School Series”, p.456, Simon and Schuster

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• I find it strangely beautiful that the camera with its inherent clarity of object and detail can produce images that in spite of themselves offer possibilities to be more than they are a photograph of nothing very important at all, nothing but an intuition, a response, a twitch from the photographer’s experience.

  Joel Meyerowitz

  Beautiful, Intuition, Important

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• My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity.

  Mario Testino

  Opportunity, Curiosity, Curious

  "Mario Testino interview: the man who makes models super". Interview with Aaron Hicklin, www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2012.

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• I became almost immediately fascinated by the possibilities of trying out all conceivable reactions with them, some leading to explosions, others to unbearable poisoning of the air in our house, frightening my parents.

  Richard Ernst

  Air, House, Parent

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• The healthier people are, the more they are willing to admit to their limitations and so the more open they are to the possibility of improvement.

  Robin Skynner

  People, Improvement, Willing

  John Cleese, Robin Skynner (2011). “Life And How To Survive It”, p.61, Random House

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• There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered.

  Lara St. John

  Play, Voice, Trying

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• In moments of uncertainty, when you must chose between two paths, allowing yourself to be overcome by either the fear of failure or the dimly lit light of possibility, immerse yourself in the life you would be most proud to live.

  Adam Braun

  Two, Light, Path

  Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• Positive questions bring out the best in people, inspire positive action, and create possibilities for positive futures.

  Diana Whitney

  Leadership, People, Inspire

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• We need to break free from the habits of mind and behavior, to discover the possibilities of who we can become.

  Larry Brooks

  Mind, Needs, Behavior

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• Two possibilities: making oneself infinitely small or being so. The second is perfection, that is to say, inactivity, the first is beginning, that is to say, action.

  Franz Kafka

  Two, Perfection, Firsts

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• What I cannot do now is the sign of what I shall do hereafter. The sense of impossibility is the beginning of all possibilities. Because this temporal universe was a paradox and an impossibility, therefore the Eternal created it out of His being.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Paradox, Eternal, Hereafter

  Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo (1989). “The Supramental Manifestation, and Other Writings”, Lotus Press (WI)

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• Undeniably, the audience for improvisation, good or bad, active or passive, sympathetic or hostile, has a power that no other audience has. It can affect the creation of that which is being witnessed. And perhaps because of that possibility the audience for improvisation has a degree of intimacy with the music that is not achieved in any other situation.

  Derek Bailey

  Music, Degrees, Intimacy

  Derek Bailey (1992). “Improvisation: its nature and practice in music”

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• It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Progress, Foolish, Contemplating

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1972). “The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in persuasion”

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• Doing any job for too long limits your possibilities.

  Michael Zaslow

  Jobs, Long, Limits

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• The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Confidence, Holocaust, Stories

  Timothy Radcliffe (2005). “Seven Last Words”, p.91, A&C Black

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• The panorama-city is a 'theoretical' (that is, visual) simulacrum, in short a picture, whose condition of possibility is an oblivion and a misunderstanding of practices.

  Michel de Certeau

  Practice, Cities, Oblivion

  Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.93, Univ of California Press

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• Today I set my mind and heart on a new path. I focus my energy on love, appreciation, and my highest possibilities.

  Alan Cohen

  Appreciation, Heart, Focus

  Cohen, Alan “Handle With Prayer”, Hay House, Inc

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• People at the top are closing ranks so tightly that all possibility of subjective deviation has gone, and difference can be sought only in the more distinguished cut of an evening dress.

  Theodor Adorno

  Cutting, Differences, People

  Theodor W. Adorno, Rolf Tiedemann (2003). “Can One Live After Auschwitz?: A Philosophical Reader”, p.77, Stanford University Press

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• I have been, all my life, what is known as a conservationist. It seems clear beyond possibility of argument that any given generation of men can have only a lease, not ownership, of the earth; and one essential term of the lease is that the earth be handed down on to the next generation with unimpaired potentialities. This is the conservationist's concern.

  Roderick Haig-Brown

  Men, Essentials, Generations

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• The Possibilities in racing tactics are almost unlimited, as in a game of chess, for every move there is a counter, for every attack there is a defense.... The runner's greatest asset, apart from essential fitness of body, is a cool and calculating brain allied to confidence and courage. Above all, he must have a will to win.

  Franz Stampfl

  Moving, Winning, Games

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• When your goal is to gain experience, perspective, and knowledge, failure is no longer a possibility

  Sophia Amoruso

  Goal, Perspective, Gains

  Sophia Amoruso (2014). “#GIRLBOSS”, p.100, Penguin

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• The first step on the path to positive change is acknowledgement that change is necessary and possible. Open yourself to the possibility of seeing the world in a new way. What do you have to lose?

  Alex Blackwell

  World, Way, Path

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• Museums have no political power, but they do have the possibility of influencing the political process. This is a complete change from their role in the early days of collecting and hoarding the world to one of using the collections as an archive for a changing world. This role is not merely scientifically important, but it is also a cultural necessity.

  Richard Fortey

  Museums, Political, Important

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• Viktor Frankl, a Holocaust survivor and the author of Man's Search for Meaning, wrote that human beings create meaning in three ways: thought their work, though their relationships, and by how they choose to meet unavoidable suffering. Every life brings hardship and trial, and every life also offers deep possibilities for meaningful work and love... I've learned that courage and compassion are two sides of the same coin.

  Eric Greitens

  Meaningful, Men, Compassion

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• We begin to realize we are energy itself
  with all of its inherent possibilities.

  Ted Andrews

  Energy, Realizing, Inherent

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