“This possibility bothered me as I thought it was not advisable to remain in one academic environment, and the long dark winters in Edinburgh could be rather dismal.” LongDarkEnvironmentPossibilityWinterAcademicBotheredEdinburghAdvisable Author:Paul Nurse
“I find as long as I acknowledge the truth of something, then that's it. I know what it is and then I can operate. But if I overestimate the downside of something or the challenge of something and I get too obsessed about the difficulty of it, then I don't leave enough room to be open to the upside, the possibility.” IfsKnowsLongI CanEnoughChallengesRoomsPossibilityDifficultyAcknowledgeObsessedOverestimate Author:Michael J. Fox
“Though I acted in hundreds of productions, appeared at the Guthrie Theatre and on Broadway in Amadeus, I discovered in my thirties that I didn't really like stage acting. The presence of the audience, the eight shows a week and the possibility of a long run were all unnatural to me.” LongShowsRunningActingAudienceWeekStagePossibilityProductionsEightTheatreLong RunsBroadwayUnnaturalStage ActingAmadeusStage Presence Author:Fred Melamed
“So long as we think dugout canoes are the only possibility-all that is real or can be real-we will never see the ship, we will never feel the free wind blow.” ThinkingFeelsLongRealPossibilityIgnoranceWindBlowShipsBeing Real Book:Going out of our minds: the metaphysics of liberation Source: Going out of our minds: the metaphysics of liberation
“A sense of humor has been linked with longevity. It is a possibility that the mental attitude reflected in a lively sense of humor is an important factor predisposing some people toward long life.” PeopleLongHas BeensImportantHumorAttitudePossibilityFactorsSense Of HumorLongevityLinkedLong LifeLivelyMental Attitude Author:Raymond Moody
“Quantum physics is the physics of possibilities. And not just material possibilities, but also possibilities of meaning, of feeling, and of intuiting. You choose everything you experience from these possibilities, so quantum physics is a way of understanding your life as one long series of choices that are in themselves the ultimate acts of creativity.” WayInspirationalLongFeelingsChoicesUnderstandingCreativityPossibilityMaterialsUltimateSeriesPhysicsYou ChooseQuantumQuantum Physics Author:Amit Goswami
“The English language may hold a more disagreeable combination of words than "The doctor will see you now." I am willing to concede something to the phrase "Have you anything to say before the current is turned on?" That may be worse for the moment, but it doesn't last so long. For continued, unmitigating depression, I know nothing to equal "The doctor will see you now." But I'm not narrow-minded about it. I'm willing to consider other possibilities.” KnowsMayLongMomentsLastsLanguagePossibilityWillingEqualDoctorsCurrentsCombinationPhrasesEnglish LanguageDisagreeableNarrow-minded Book:Love Conquers All Source: Love Conquers All
“Most Muggles lived in a world defined by the limits of what you could do with cars and telephones. Even though Muggle physics explicitly permitted possibilities like molecular nanotechnology or the Penrose process for extracting energy from black holes, most people filed that away in the same section of their brain that stored fairy tales and history books, well away from their personal realities: Long ago and far away, ever so long ago.” PeopleWorldWellsLongBookRealityEnergyProcessBlackBrainCarPossibilityLimitsPhysicsHolesTalesDefinedFairyFairy TaleFar AwayLong AgoSectionsTelephonesBlack HoleHistory BooksNanotechnologyMuggles Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky
“Yes, I spent two long years, traveling all over the United States, all over Europe, interviewing many, many, many people who had been thrown out of their academic jobs because they taught that there was a possibility of life coming from something other than Darwinism, who thought that possibly random selection and mutations didn't account for the universe, didn't account for gravity, didn't account for why nobody had ever seen an individual species evolve - no one's ever seen an individual species evolve!” PeopleYearsLongTwoStatesJobsUniverseIndividualUnitedUnited StatesPossibilityTaughtEuropeAccountsSpeciesEvolveThrownAcademicGravitySelectionDarwinismMutation Author:Ben Stein