Possibility Quotes - Page 8

• No one ever addresses the possibility that a writer might not like her book.

  Emily Gould

  Book, Addresses, Might

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think we live in an age of self empowerment and possibilities, the only excuse to not do something is yourself.

  Ji Lee

  Thinking, Self, Empowerment

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• I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.

  Ai Weiwei

  Believe, Thinking, Optimism

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• When you're brave enough to let go of anything you don't absolutely love or need, what you have left is the space for stillness and possibility.

  Cheryl Richardson

  Letting Go, Space, Brave

  Cheryl Richardson (2012). “21 Days to Master Extreme Self-Care”, p.62, Hay House, Inc

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• Drawing is the honesty of the art.

  Salvador Dali

  Art, Honesty, Drawing

  "People" Magazine, September 27, 1976.

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• If a socialist economy is opened up to increasing degrees of market forces, a point will be reached at which democratic governance becomes a possibility.

  Peter L. Berger

  Socialist Economy, Degrees, Force

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• As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of language.

  June Jordan

  Hate, Requirements, Language

  June Jordan (1981). “Civil Wars”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• Tactility was rejected in conceptual photography. I embrace the possibilities of my medium. Surface, texture, and tactility is something analog photography can do well, or it is something I can do well in analog photography. It can be hard to know what or who is in control.

  Torbjørn Rødland

  Photography, Embrace, Rejected

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• If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we can say this: were there the slightest possibility that another rival or superior species might appear, on earth or elsewhere, man would use every means at his disposal to destroy it.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Mean, Men, Thinking

  Jean Baudrillard (2001). “Selected Writings”, p.223, Stanford University Press

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• As time goes on we become old, the future contracts, the past expands...But by future we don't just mean the years ahead; we always mean as well the plenitude of possibilities which challenge our creativity...In confrontation with the future we can become young if we accept the future's challenges.

  Jürgen Moltmann

  Creativity, Mean, Past

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• First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.

  Alva Myrdal

  War, Tools, Rivals

  Alva Myrdal, Cecilia Åse, Yvonne Hirdman (2002). “"Något kan man väl göra: texter 1932-1982”

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• The end is what you want, the means is how you get it. Whenever we think about social change, the question of means and ends arises. The man of action views the issue of means and ends in pragmatic and strategic terms. He has no other problem; he thinks only of his actual resources and the possibilities of various choices of action. He asks of ends only whether they are achievable and worth the cost; of means, only whether they will work. ... The real arena is corrupt and bloody.

  Saul Alinsky

  Real, Mean, Men

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• Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate. The world doesn’t need any more gray. On the other hand, we can’t get enough color. Mediocrity is nobody’s goal and perfection shouldn’t be either. We’ll never be perfect. But remember these three P’s: Passion + Persistence = Possibility.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Passion, Persistence, Hands

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• But freedom is the possibility of a total and centered act of the personality, an act in which all the drives and influences which constitute the destiny of man are brought into the centered unity of a decision.

  Paul Tillich

  Destiny, Men, Personality

  "Systematic Theology".

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