#possibility

And when you're on your own there is that terrifying possibility that you may be the only person on the planet who thinks it's funny - and you have no way of finding out. ↗

— Denis Norden

#funny #may #only #out #own

We have an internal check and balance system. By design we are so filled with possibility, opportunity, with greatness that when we live small, within the bottom of our capability, we innately know we should be living greater than that, and it creates a disconnect inside that leads us to feeling empty, unhappy, maybe even depressed. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#capability #check #depressed #design #empty

By focusing on possibilities, you can see more than a potential light at the end of the tunnel. The light doesn't have to be at the end of the tunnel; it can illuminate an opportunity wherever you are. ↗

— John B. Arden

#possibility #life

To be born means being compelled to choose an era, a place, a life. To exist here, now, means to lost the possibility of being countless other potential selves.. Yet once being born there is no turning back. And I think that's exactly why the fantasy worlds of cartoon movies so strongly represent our hopes and yearnings. They illustrate a world of lost possibilities for us. ↗

— Hayao Miyazaki

#life #possibility #life

In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#democracy #effort #eliminate #growing #growing up

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#impossibility #inspirational #inspirational

These times are unfriendly toward Worlds alternative to this one ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

#diagnosis #possibility #worlds #change

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

#having #instrument #intonation #play #possibility

As soon as you judge communication a little more rigorously, there is a possibility that the message will not be democratized. I have to say what I believe to be right. I have to spread out the statement among all the means of expression available to us at present. ↗

— Alexander Kluge

#available #believe #communication #expression #i

The possibility of saying anything about a thing rests on the assumption that it preserves its identity, or continues to be the same thing in the respect described, that it will behave in future situations as it has in past. ↗

— Frank Knight

#anything #assumption #behave #continues #described