“Voltaire's novel [Candid] offers us parallel universes, the possibility of entering into alternative worlds existing side by side, and this is something quite modern. Nested narratives and parallel universes are popular at the moment in many different art forms.” WorldArtDifferentMomentsFormUniverseSidesNovelModernPossibilityOffersAlternativesNarrativeEnteringParallelsCandidParallel Universe Author:Mark Ravenhill
“Because we have such a deeply grooved conditioning to reject and condemn ourselves, particularly in this culture, I find that emphasis on the word "acceptance" is central in healing. It brings our attention to the possibility of saying yes to what we are experiencing in the moment, and counteracts the conditioning to push away what feels unpleasant or intense or unfamiliar.” FeelsMomentsCultureHealingAttentionPossibilityAcceptanceIntenseRejectsEmphasisConditioningUnfamiliarSaying Yes Author:Tara Brach
“Curiosity is a key building block. The more curious you are, the more creativity you will unleash. A great way to do that is to ask the three "magic questions" again and again... those questions are simply, "Why", "What if?", and "Why not?". Asking these questions constantly focused you on the possibilities and away from how things are at the moment.” MomentsCreativityMagicPossibilityBuildingCuriosityFocusedBlockCuriousWhat If Author:Josh Linkner
“I am interested in the possibility that we are going to be wrong in the same way that history has indicated that mankind always is. It seems as though the history of ideas is the history of being wrong. And to me, that is a kind of continuum. It's a continual path that shows we don't always know something, but we're always shifting to a path that makes us feel more comfortable in the moment, even if that shift is wrong, and a new shift is destined to happen again.” KindMomentsPathMankindPossibilityBeing Wrong Author:Chuck Klosterman
“Writing New People I was thinking a lot about the era that I came of age - the 90's. Brooklyn, in particular, this moment when I lived there. The sense of possibility. I was also trying to find a way to write about Jonestown. I had read about it a lot and I had the sense that the story could really start to drive one over the edge.” PeopleThinkingWritingTryingMomentsAgePossibilityOver The Edge Author:Danzy Senna
“I think history is only ever invisible when it abets your sense of self, your desires, your ambitions, when it carries your life along in a kind of frictionless way. History is never invisible, finally, though some people seem to work very hard to be willfully blind. That's too harsh, or too self-righteous: none of us sees history fully; none of us is adequately aware of how the arrangements of the present moment foreclose the possibilities of others to fully live their only lives.” PeopleThinkingKindMomentsDesirePossibilityAmbitionBlindInvisiblePresent MomentHarshSense Of Self Author:Garth Greenwell
“Any artist who really engages with the problems in their medium at that moment and tries to deepen the problems is likely to discover new problems, new possibilities that will excite audiences and continue to excite them.” TryingMomentsProblemArtistAudiencePossibility Author:Brian Boyd
“Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace.” BelieveMomentsPoliticalHumanityPossibilityDevelopmentConsiderationFascismPerpetualUtility Book:My Autobiography: With Source: My Autobiography: With
“Our work is before us. It cannot be passed to future legislatures and must not be passed to future generations. May we boldly seize the moment with singular unity. And may we build a Texas of unlimited possibility.” MayMomentsGenerationsPossibilityUnityTexasUnlimitedFuture GenerationLegislatureSeize The MomentUnlimited Possibilities Author:Rick Perry
“I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.” MomentsPossibilityExposedUpside DownThings Upside Down Author:Anna Deavere Smith
“Moments into minutes. Minutes into hours. Hours into days. Days into years. Years into possibility. This will linger.” YearsMomentsHoursMinutesPossibility Book:The Realm of Possibility Source: The Realm of Possibility
“At every moment you choose yourself. But do you choose *your* self? Body and soul contain a thousand possibilities out of which you can build many I's. But in one of them is there a congruence of the elector and the elected. Only one--which you will never find until you have excluded all those superficial and fleeting possibilities of being and doing with which you toy, out of curiosity or wonder or greed, and which hinder you from casting anchor in the experience of the mystery of life, and the consciousness of the talent entrusted to you which is your *I*.” SoulSelfMomentsBodyConsciousnessWonderMysteryTalentPossibilityThousandCuriosityGreedYou ChooseToysSuperficialFleetingCastingAnchorsHinderExcludedMystery Of LifeCongruence Author:Dag Hammarskjold
“In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place in solitude. But with action came anxiety, and the sense of insuperable effort made to match the dream, and with it came weariness, discouragement, and the flight into solitude again. And then in solitude, in the opium den of remembrance, the possibility of pleasure again.” WorldMadeMomentsDreamActionJoyPleasureEffortPossibilitySolitudeAnxietyFlightPreparationDreamerRemembranceDiscouragementWearinessOpiumExaltationDens Author:Anais Nin