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Wednesday, 3 December 2008
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"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests" (Vidal, Gore - Language)

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Browse Quotations about Possibilities

A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.
Anything that has been accomplished by any other human being in the physical realm is within the field of possibility.
Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours
As you begin to understand the immense power and love you hold inside, you will find an unending surge of joy, light and love that will nourish and support you all the days of your life.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses power of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.
Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.
Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.
Every one's got it in him, if he'll only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a stop-valve on his powers or with a set limit to his capacities, There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.
Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
For years, people have looked at Beamon's record as unattainable. I don't accept that. I believe the Lord has given me a talent. I know the record is inside me and I will attain it.
Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.
Go far -- too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, Through all your travels; for you'll find it certain. The poorer and the baser you appear, The more you look through still.
How far is far, how high is high? We'll never know until we try.
I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
I am willing to put myself through anything; temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level. I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers, an often-painful process.
I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.
I dwell in Possibility.
I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
I'm in my prime. There's no goal too far, no mountain too high.
I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.
I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't care how much a man may consider himself a failure, I believe in him, for he can change the thing that is wrong in his life any time he is ready and prepared to do it. Whenever he develops the desire, he can take away from his life the thing that is defeating it. The capacity for reformation and change lies within.
If I had some idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!
If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness.
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few.
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.
It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done.
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence -- beginning with one's own.
It is necessary; therefore, it is possible.
It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of the instrument with an internal sense of rightness -- it is not merely mechanical, it is not only spiritual; it is something of both, on a different plane and a more remote one.
It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.
It shows exactly what you can do if you're a total psychotic.
It's your unlimited power to care and to love that can make the biggest difference in the quality of your life.
Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.
Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.
Look and you will find it -- what is unsought will go undetected.
Look at things... as they can be.
My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep. The more I give thee, the more I have, For both are infinite
Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.
No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
No matter how good you get, there's always something further out there.
No matter what the level of your ability, you have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime.
No one ever yet was the poorer in the long run for having once in a lifetime Let out all the length of all the reins.
No one knows what he can do till he tries.
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.
Oh man! There is no planet sun or star could hold you, if you but knew what you are.
Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?
Our aspirations are our possibilities.
Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living beings in that enormous immensity.
Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason ;knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.
Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is to good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.
She didn't know it couldn't be done, so she went ahead and did it.
Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering
Start viewing the possible as probable. You'll be surprised at what you can accomplish.
The awakening has begun!
The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, Thus far and no farther.
The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.
The creator is both detached and committed, free and yet ensnared, concerned but not too much so. If motivation is too strong the person is blinded; if the objective situation is too tightly structured, the person sees none of its alternative possibilities.
The failure wishes he could do things he could never do. He thinks little of what he can do.
The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.
The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
The possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and imponderable. They inspire one with awe.