“We talk about people being narrow-minded when they have a limited sense of possibility. Well, that’s exactly what they are. They are narrow-frequencied, if you like. When we talk about people awakening, it’s awakening to a greater range of possibilities, of awareness and frequencies.” PeopleIfsWellsGreaterAwarenessPossibilityAwakeningRangeFrequencyNarrow-minded Author:David Icke
“I had never imagined myself doing [wrestling]. Once I came to the realization that it was a possibility, I just tried to concentrate on what I thought people would enjoy.” PeopleEnjoyPossibilityRealizationWrestling Author:Bill Goldberg
“We're remembering both the good and the bad in our history together in this world. This isn't an attempt to make people feel bad every morning and to force them to go stick their fingers in a wall socket. We chose these things we included as a way to point people toward the possibility of transformation even while remembering the great pain we have experienced as humanity.” PeopleWorldWayFeelsPainTogetherRememberHumanityForceMorningPossibilityThis WorldWallTransformationSticksFingersEvery Morning Author:Shane Claiborne
“What I feel now is connected to people. I feel connected and I feel a lot of love for people. I feel the possibility of what building social movements and what working together in struggle creates. Whatever that energy is, it feels a lot better than what I felt when I was younger - which was worthless and disconnected and isolated and alone.” PeopleFeelsTogetherEnergySocialFeltStruggleMovementPossibilityBuildingConnectedWorking TogetherIsolatedWorthlessDisconnectedSocial Movements Author:Eve Ensler
“What excites me is that, when things are tough, people become resourceful, and now with the Internet, social networking and the ability for people who in the past had been relatively powerless, they have tools to be able to spread ideas and organize. The urgency is there and the tools are there and I think that the possibility for really, really powerful results is there. I think it's all brewing, it's all bubbling up right now.” PeopleThinkingIdeasAblePastSocialAbilityResultsPowerfulPossibilityInternetRight NowToughToolsSpreadOrganizePowerlessNetworkingUrgencySocial NetworkingSocial NetworkResourcefulBrewingReally Powerful Author:Shepard Fairey
“When you go to Africa and you see people who are just like you and me - this is always my starting point. These are people who are just like you and me. The same synapses, same things are firing off in their heads, same dreams for their children, same hopes and aspirations that we all have. What can one do to reduce the possibility that their chances of a happy and healthy and prosperous life are not solely determined by the accident of where they were born?” PeopleChildrenDreamBornChancePossibilityLike YouHealthyStartingDeterminedAccidentsAspirationProsperousStarting PointFiringSynapses Author:Michael Elliott
“The thing I've been talking about with daughter is the idea of - and I'm talking about essentially in America - the possibility of, a lost generation. I've been listening to a lot of music - as a fan, as a critic, as somebody who likes to dance - but I hear, you know, within these songs and half the people I hear, these philosophies encoded and embedded in these songs.” PeopleKnowsIdeasPhilosophyAmericaSongLostHalfTalkingGenerationsFansPossibilityListeningDaughterCriticsLikesEmbeddedLost Generation Author:Saul Williams
“I think that with some education there are real possibilities at the high school and college level, but more so at the college level, to bring people into cycling.” PeopleThinkingRealSchoolLevelsPossibilityCollegeHigh SchoolCycling Author:Kristin Armstrong
“We have responsibilities for others, not just across space but across time. We have responsibilities to people who came before us. They left us a world of institutions, ideas or possibilities for which we, in turn, owe them something. One of the things we owe them is not to squander them.” PeopleWorldIdeasTurnsLeftSpaceResponsibilityPossibilityInstitutions Author:Tony Judt
“I was sitting in this small coffee shop a couple days ago and I saw this old man sitting at a table across from me. He looked so lonely, so sad. I was too, but it suddenly occurred to me that some people go through their whole lives never being loved or loving as deeply as I love you. There's always going to be the chance that I could lose you in this lifetime. There's nothing any of us can do about the possibility of loss. But in that moment, I decided that I was more interested in focusing on the great privilege I've been given in having you at all. Ch. 32” PeopleMenWholeMomentsGivenCan DoLosesChanceLossSawsLove YouPossibilityCoupleSittingLonelyDecidedTablesLifetimePrivilegeCoffeeWhole LifeShopsThat MomentOld ManLoving LifeBeing LovedSo SadCoffee ShopSo Lonely Author:Mia Sheridan
“I think a lot of the misery that people experience comes from that sensation of boundlessness, of infinite possibility.” PeopleThinkingPossibilityInfiniteMiserySensationsInfinite Possibilities Author:Ian Bogost
“I see tragedy and comedy and pain and irony and all that stuff. But in the end I think life is fascinating, and I think people are more good than bad, and I think that the possibilities of progress are real.” PeopleThinkingRealEndsPainLife IsStuffComedyPossibilityTragedyIronyFascinatingTragedy And Comedy Author:Barack Obama
“I started playing with digital technology early on in my work. I made digital collages with costumed figures using early versions of Photoshop in the 90s. I was trying to use the newly available digital technologies to combine real people and places with new imagined possibilities.” PeopleTryingMadeRealUseTechnologyFiguresPossibilityAvailableVersionsDigitalCollagesPhotoshopDigital Technology Author:Saya Woolfalk
“The Enlightenment dream is a good one. The idea that people should rationally appreciate their place in nature, assess threats and possibilities, and regulate their behavior in response is inspiring.” PeopleShouldIdeasDreamPossibilityBehaviorEnlightenmentAppreciateThreatResponse Author:Dale Jamieson
“A lot of people have come up after Brookland and asked, "What happens to her at the end of the novel?" and I will very politely say, well, here are the two possibilities.” PeopleWellsTwoEndsHappensNovelPossibilityCome Up Author:Emily Barton
“We are confronted with the possibility of a war of such destruction that the whole existence of our nation and of the whole world is at stake. And yet, people know it - people read it in the newspapers, people read that at the first attack, a hundred million Americans might be killed. And yet, they talk about it as if they were talking about something being wrong with the carburetor of their car, perhaps.” PeopleIfsKnowsWorldFirstsWarWholeMightNationsExistenceTalkingMillionsCarPossibilityHundredDestructionNewspapersWhole WorldStakesBeing Wrong Author:Erich Fromm
“I talked to Shailene Woodley the next day [after arrest]. She was fine, and she was very happy. She knew that it brought attention to a cause that she cared very much about. She was in high spirits and knew that was a possibility when she was protesting. The people who arrested her, if they were trying to prove a point of not to protest, they only helped the cause.” PeopleIfsTryingSpiritNextCausesAttentionPossibilityFineProveProtestVery HappyNext DayArrested Author:Ansel Elgort
“There's always the danger that people will simply sign online petitions, the way they used to just mail in checks, and there's the greater possibility we'll just spend our whole lives staring at screens and never get anything done.” PeopleWayDoneWholeUsedGreaterDangerPossibilityScreensWhole LifeChecksStaringOnlineMailPetitions Author:Bill McKibben
“Projection will disappear. And the possibility that was given by motion pictures will be missed. The possibility of there being a real audience - a group of people who have nothing in common, but, at a certain time of the day or the week, are able to look with other nknown neighbors at something bigger than they are. To look at their problems in big. Not in small.” PeopleLooksRealProblemBigsAbleCertainGivenCommonAudienceGroupsWeekPossibilityBiggerDisappearNeighborProjectionMotion Pictures Author:Jean-Luc Godard
“Predictions are preposterous. What usually happens is that people tell you that what they'd like to see happen instead of what they really think will happen. There are so many variations and possibilities that there's no way to ever really know for certain.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayHappensCertainPossibilityPredictionsVariation Author:Jackie Mason
“You can get tired of anything, everything turns old, but I want to give people the possibility to share a Vogue party. It is up to the brands to participate to make the event interesting. I am satisfied, but it's important never to stop.” PeopleWantGivingImportantTurnsInterestingPartyShareEventsPossibilityTiredSatisfiedBrandsVogue Author:Franca Sozzani
“People run on and off the stage, but usually they're removed before they get to me. It's not really frightening. There's always the possibility that someone's going to take a potshot at you; you take that risk when you perform in front of thousands of people.” PeopleRunningRiskStageFrontsPossibilityFrighteningAnd Off Author:George Michael
“I have been taken for a ride a couple of times. I've been hurt by people who I've had a 90 percent possibility of being hurt by.” PeopleHas BeensHurtTakenPossibilityCouplePercentBeing HurtBeen HurtI've Been Hurt Author:George Michael
“In life, some people just know that they have the power of their money. They can sign checks, contracts, and things like that. And they think they are bright just because they can sign these things because someone gave them the possibility to have this economic power over you. And they behave as censors.” PeopleThinkingKnowsEconomicPossibilityChecksBehaveOver YouContractsEconomic Power Author:Gaspar Noe
“Some dozens of years ago, there was a debate conducted between people insisting that "this loaf of bread must be redistributed," and the others who said "instead of worrying about redistributing it, cutting differently, let's make it bigger." A third possibility was not imagined: that the loaf may be shrinking. But it is now a genuine possibility. It is even acting upon already, like in the case of the American invasion of Afghanistan and of Iraq in order to secure the supply of petrol for the Americans addicted to gas-guzzling cars.” PeopleYearsMaySaidOrderActingCasesWorryCuttingCarPossibilityYears AgoThirdsBiggerIraqDebateGenuineBreadSecureGasAfghanistanDozenInvasionShrinkingInsistingPetrol Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“It's the reason why I am always interested in engaging in people who are pushing us and pushing against the status quo. But having been an activist, the only thing that I'm always encouraging activists to do is, once you have raised the issue, and even through controversial means, you have to come behind it with an agenda and the possibility of reconciliation if power meets your demands.” PeopleIfsMeanReasonBehindsIssuesPossibilityDemandRaisedReason WhyAgendasPushingActivistStatus QuoEngagingReconciliationControversial Author:Barack Obama
“It is true that one was not allowed at the time to really ask, what would lead people to do this, from what sense of political outrage or injury? And in that way, the possibility of sympathetic identification was foreclosed. That does not mean that some people took quiet pleasure in certain icons of US capitalism coming down, even though they would oppose such action on moral and political grounds.” PeopleWayMeanDoeActionPoliticalCertainAsksPleasureMoralPossibilityQuietCapitalismInjuryIconsSympatheticOutrageIdentification Author:Judith Butler
“Many people remember that spirit that President Kennedy summoned forth. Many people look to me as somebody who embodies that sense of possibility.” PeopleLooksRememberSpiritPresidentPossibilityPresident Kennedy Author:Caroline Kennedy
“Coolidge liked the dignity of the presidency. He didn't get on the phone easily. It's possible that he banished the phone from his desk. He was known to use it from time to time. The person who was hilarious with the phone was Hoover. He was a real engineer. He made a closed circuit phone where he could call the important people and they could call him, a government hotline, but it was closed. He shut out the possibility of input from people he didn't expect to get input from.” PeoplePersonsMadeImportantRealUseGovernmentKnownPossibilityDignityPhonesEngineersDesksPresidencyInputCircuitsHoover Author:Amity Shlaes
“150 years ago in [Charles] Dickens's time there was at least a sense of craft. So some of the things people had inside of them, they had the possibility of expressing in the making of things - even in a daily way with their clothes or their food. People made a good deal of both themselves. Now our daily lives are almost all consumption. Craft plays a tiny role.” PeopleWayYearsMadePlayDealsRolesPossibilityClothesYears AgoTinyCraftsDaily LifeConsumptionDickens Author:Zadie Smith
“I think Donald Trump is not going to be impeached [in a ] month. Let's not close out possibilities.I do think that what's happening is great and that people are active and people are just involved in the democratic process.” PeopleThinkingProcessPossibilityMonthsTrumpInvolvedHappeningsDemocraticActiveDemocratic Process Author:Mark Shields
“Why did the people think [Vietnam war] was fundamentally wrong and immoral? The guys who ran the polls, John E. Rielly, a professor at the University of Chicago, a liberal professor, he said what that means is that people thought too many Americans had being killed. Another possibility is they didn't like the fact that we were carrying out the worst crime since the Second World War. But that's so inconceivable that wasn't even offered as a possible reason.” PeopleThinkingWorldMeanSaidWarReasonFactsGuyWorstCrimePossibilityUniversityRanWar Of The WorldsChicagoProfessorsVietnamImmoralPollsVietnam WarSecond World War Author:Noam Chomsky
“The Soviet Union was, by the 1970s and 1980s, relatively stable and predictable. Putin's Russia is much more volatile. Nuclear policy is really in the hands of one person, or a small group of people, instead of a huge party-state apparatus. The possibility of a mistake is greater now.” PeoplePersonsStatesHandsPartyMistakeGreaterGroupsPolicyPossibilityHugeUnionsNuclearRussiaSovietStableSoviet UnionPutinPredictableSmall Groups Author:Anne Applebaum
“Membership in the European Community, now the European Union, has enabled Ireland to re-find its sense of participation - cultural, political, social - at the European level. I think that also opens up possibilities for Ireland as a European country to look outward - to look particularly, for example, at countries to which a lot of Irish people emigrated, to our links - our human links - with the United States, with Canada, with Australia, with New Zealand. And to look also, because of our history, at our links to the developing countries.” PeopleThinkingHumansLooksCountryStatesPoliticalSocialCommunityLevelsUnitedUnited StatesExamplePossibilityUnionsDevelopingCanadaAustraliaLinksIrelandParticipationEuropean UnionNew ZealandMembershipEuropean CountriesDeveloping Countries Author:Mary Robinson
“In India, whichever language you write in, the possibility of people not understanding irony or not understanding [remains there]. This as a writer is most terrifying!” PeopleWritingLanguageUnderstandingPossibilityIndiaRemainsIrony Author:Arundhati Roy
“I'm fascinated by the possibilities of human behavior, of how two people raised the same way can end up at such different places.” PeopleWayHumansTwoDifferentEndsPossibilityBehaviorRaisedFascinatedHuman BehaviorDifferent Place Author:Ed Gass-Donnelly
“We're targeted as LGBTQ people because we make people nervous around sex and we practice desire or have the possibility of practicing desire in magical and very, very profound ways. We shouldn't be giving up the possibility of articulating the claim of our body and the claim of our desire as something distinctive and erotically profound.” PeopleWayGivingBodyDesireSexPracticePossibilityGiving UpClaimsProfoundNervousDistinctiveArticulating Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“When people give up sex and give up love or they only have love in the context of tradition then I think we're missing the opportunity of saying to each other building community, building desire in community gives all of us the possibility of learning how to be who we always were terrified we'd find out we were, and then not be ashamed of it and to not have our desire and our love embedded in shame is a profound thing and it's part of what drives the movement.” PeopleThinkingGivingDesireOpportunitySexCommunityMissingMovementPossibilityBuildingGiving UpTraditionShameProfoundAshamedTerrifiedOur LoveEmbeddedCommunity BuildingBuilding Community Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“People are more comfortable with the familiar. It takes selling a big dream that comes with excellent income possibility to get someone to leave his or her comfort zone.” PeopleDreamBigsPossibilityComfortComfortableIncomeFamiliarSellingExcellentZoneComfort Zone Author:Philip Kotler
“We have new media, new forms of connectivity, and an enormous transference of knowledge. When you study evolution, you see that when new genes meet and multiply, they create new contexts and new species. In a sense, the gene-pool of knowledge and of people connecting at all levels is literally spawning a kind of mind-pool of possibilities.” PeopleMindKindFormLevelsStudyMediaPossibilityEvolutionSpeciesEnormousPoolGenesConnectingNew MediaTransference Author:Jean Houston
“Blackness is an ocean, a universe, a possibility that can never be exhausted. And so we have to constantly reaffirm the necessity of excavation, of archiving and curating, but also exploring, and understanding afresh and learning for the first time what it is that we need to know, and what the limits and boundaries are, and what the themes and preoccupations should be, and what the redemptive character of that erudition is. I find myself in the exciting position of doing all that, and at the same time having the obligation to explain to white people what the deal is.” PeopleKnowsNeedsShouldFirstsCharacterUniverseUnderstandingWhiteDealsPossibilityPositionLimitsOceanFirst TimeExcitingBoundariesObligationThemeExploringExhaustedBlacknessPreoccupationErudition Author:Michael Eric Dyson
“You have to create the space for the possibility of people speaking as they do. If writing is supposed to lead us in any way or educate or suggest other ways of being, it can't do so by simply reflecting what's considered to be realistic. I'm not a realist in that way.” PeopleIfsWayWritingSpacePossibilityRealisticEducateReflectingRealist Author:Lynne Tillman
“The notion about education has changed and that now it’s sort of much more aligned with, “Well, schools can’t combat poverty. We can’t possibly expect schools to do the work to overcome poverty.” I think that notion which has changed over the last few decades is part, not all, but part of what is maybe leading to people feeling less of a sense of possibility.” PeopleThinkingFeelingsSchoolPovertyPossibilityChangedOvercoming Author:Michelle Rhee
“Some people think that in order to lead a morally decent life one may sometimes have to forego the possibility of having a good life oneself. Even if that is true, it does not render morality incredible, but it does raise a question about morality's authority: about what one has most reason to do when one is faced with a conflict of this kind.” PeopleThinkingKindSometimesReasonPossibilityMoralityConflictAuthorityIncrediblesOneselfDecentGood Life Author:Samuel Scheffler
“I've always been scared of becoming something. I fear the fact of jailing myself in any circle or group of people or specific work or specific style of music. I guess it is because I don't want to close myself to other possibilities. But it is also because I witnessed people growing and starting to speak only to those who are similar to them. This makes me run away, people who don't experience difference anymore.” PeopleRunningSpeakStylePossibilityScaredRunning Away Author:Gaspar Claus
“Tariffs are in the end taxes. And somebody has to pay that tax. I think one thing people are forgetting is that trade disputes are two-sided. When the United States imposes tariffs on a partner like Canada, there is always a possibility that Canada will say that's not fair and retaliate. And at that point, you have to ask the question, - which U.S. industry will suffer because the Canadians retaliated against it?” PeopleThinkingSufferingForgetPossibilityTaxesTrade Author:Greg Ip
“I think '60s are appealing to creative people, because it seemed to be a time of endless possibilities, when the boundaries of what could be considered popular culture were being expanded almost by the week. It doesn't feel like that anymore. At times, I wish it were so. Radio is a perfect example; good God, I mean, back then the most interesting songs were also hits, and that's just not true anymore. It hasn't been true in a long time.” PeopleThinkingMeanLongSongCultureWishPerfectInterestingCreativeWeekPossibilityBoundariesMost InterestingCreative PeoplePopular CultureGood God Author:Steven Soderbergh
“The possibility of impeachment's always there, but impeachment's a political thing, not legal, despite how it's structured. And it's not gonna happen unless there's a political will for it, and by that I mean political will among the people.” PeopleMeanPoliticalPossibility Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Even if you're trying to remain objective, even if you're trying not to mount any campaigns or endorse anything, when you cover an issue you are at least encouraging people to think about all the possibilities and if you're not covering political reform, electoral reform, you can write stories about them that don't say we must do this but just educate people on the fact that there are various advocates who are tugging us in that direction, that can present the arguments of those advocates, and I do think that's an issue we for some reason completely turned away from.” PeopleThinkingWritingTryingReasonPoliticalPossibilityArgumentVariousEducate Author:Frank Bruni
“I think the possibilities are endless in terms of what the genre would be like. However, in terms of looking for sources of money, I think we have to be very careful not to fall into Hollywood's commodification of Chicano culture. We could look at the example of Piri Thomas, a successful Puerto Rican writer now living in the Bay Area, who has received repeated offers from Hollywood...and he said he's not going to write about his people doing drugs and going to jail.” PeopleThinkingWritingFallCultureTermSuccessfulPossibilityDrugCareful Author:Ana Castillo