Best possibility & problem Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It is important to live each day with a positive perspective. It is not wise to pretend problems do not exist, but it is wise to look beyond the problem to the possibilities that are in it. When Goliath came against the Israelites, the soldiers all thought, "He's so big, we can never kill him." But David looked at the same giant and thought, "He's so big, I can't miss him.”

Looks I Can Important Problem Bigs Wise Missing Possibility Perspective Soldier Giants Each Day Live Each Day Goliath Positive Perspective

Author:Dale E. Turner

“If you were ever dumped after knitting a guy a sweater, consider the possibility that the problem was with the sweater, not you. The recipient probably took one look at the thing, imagined a lifetime of having to pretend to like (and wear) this sweater and others of its like, and saw no choice but to flee into the night”

Ifs Looks Problem Night Guy Choices Saws Possibility Lifetime Sweaters Knitting Dumped

Author:Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

“The problems of philosophy and the systems designed to solve them are formulated in terms which tend to refer, not to the realm of actuality, but to the realms of possibility and necessity: to what might be and what must be, rather than to what is.”

Philosophy Problem Might Term Possibility Solve Realms Actuality Realm Of Possibility

Book:From Descartes to Wittgenstein: a short history of modern philosophy

Source: From Descartes to Wittgenstein: a short history of modern philosophy

“We must contemplate some extremely unpleasant possibilities, just because we want to avoid them and achieve something better. Nobody, however, likes to think about anything unpleasant, even to avoid it. And so the crucial problem of thermonuclear war is frequently dispatched with the label 'War is unthinkable' -- which, translated freely, means we don't want to think about it.”

Thinking Want Mean War Problem History Learning Achieve Possibility Likes Labels Crucial Contemplating Something Better Unthinkable Nuclear War

Author:Albert Wohlstetter

“Justice of the world is in its creativity, in solving problems, in our activity and struggle. While I am alive there is the possibility to act, to strive for happiness, this is justice.”

World Problem Justice Creativity Struggle Alive Possibility Activity Strive Problem Solving I Am Alive

Book:Parenting for Everyone: Where Do Good Children Come From?

Source: Parenting for Everyone: Where Do Good Children Come From?

“We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved their problems. We can learn by analogy, not by example, for our circumstances will always be different than theirs were. The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. They foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events.”

Source: Why History Matters: Life and Thought

“For thousands of years humankind's finest minds have been struggling with the theoretical problem of finding the forms that would give peoples the possibility, without the greatest of torment, without internecine strife, of living side by side in friendship and brotherhood. Practically speaking, the first step in this direction is only being taken now, today.”

Giving Years Mind Firsts Has Beens Problem Today Form Sides Steps Struggle Taken Possibility Findings Brotherhood First Steps Humankind Finest Strife Torment Theoretical

Author:Mikhail Kalinin

“Work incessantly, cultivate discrimination, gather freedom from your own hard-earned results. Disregard successes but go back for help in an immediate problem. The possibility of discovery is everywhere. Freedom from your own work allows for intuition that draws from all your experience and perception but goes beyond it.”

Hard Helping Problem Results Possibility Perception Draws Discovery Photographer Intuition Discrimination Disregard Incessantly

Book:Paul Caponigro

Source: Paul Caponigro

“Where another person sees problems, a leader sees possibilities. ... Leaders must have the courage to follow their vision, to believe in the invisible, to work for something that's still only a possibility, while others often wring their hands in despair.”

Believe Persons Stills Problem Hands Leader Vision Possibility Despair Invisible

Author:Diane Dreher

“The capacity to innovate - the ability to solve problems creatively or bring new possibilities to life - and skills like critical thinking, communication and collaboration are far more important than academic knowledge.”

Thinking Important Problem Ability Possibility Communication Skills Capacity Solve Critical Collaboration Academic Critical Thinking New Possibilities

Author:Tony Wagner

“There is a creative solution to every problem. Every possibility holds the promise of abundance.”

Soul Problem Creative Possibility Promise Solutions Abundance Creative Solutions

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Limitations imply possibilities. A problem is a challenge.”

Problem Challenges Possibility Limitation

Book:The Education of a Gardener

Source: The Education of a Gardener

“If we see only the problems, we will be defeated; but if we see the possibilities in the problems, we can have victory.”

Ifs Problem Possibility Victory Defeated

Book:The Bumps Are What You Climb On: Encouragement for Difficult Days

Source: The Bumps Are What You Climb On: Encouragement for Difficult Days

“Along with the possibility of extinction of mankind by nuclear war, the central problem of our age has therefore become the contamination of man's total environment with such substances of incredible potential for harm-substances that accumulate in the tissues of plants and animals and even penetrate the germ cells to shatter or alter the very material of heredity upon which the shape of the future depends.”

Source: Silent Spring

“Revenge tries to solve the problem of vulnerability. If I strike back, I transfer vulnerability from myself to the other. And yet by striking back I produce a world in which my vulnerability to injury is increased by the likelihood of another strike. So it seems as if I'm getting rid of my vulnerability and instead locating it with the other, but actually I'm heightening the vulnerability of everyone and I'm heightening the possibility of violence that happens between us.”

Ifs World Trying Problem Seems Happens Violence Possibility Produce Solve Revenge Strikes Vulnerability Injury Transfers Likelihood Strike Back

Author:Judith Butler

“When you play from the heart, all of a sudden there's no gravity. You don't feel the weight of the world, of bills, of anything. That's why people love it. Your so-called insurmountable problems disappear, and instead of problems you get possibilities.”

People World Feels Heart Play Problem Possibility Weight Bills Disappear Gravity Insurmountable Weight Of The World

Author:Carlos Santana

“Never focus on your problems. Focus on your possibilities. The problems will pull you down. The possibilities will push you up”

Problem Focus Possibility

Book:Five Things You Need To Do Before You Die

Source: Five Things You Need To Do Before You Die

“It is pure mythology that women cannot perform as well as men in science, engineering and mathematics. In my experience, the opposite is true: Women are often more adept and patient at untangling complex problems, multitasking, seeing the possibilities in new solutions and winning team support for collaborative action.”

“The classes of problems which are respectively known and not known to have good algorithms are of great theoretical interest. [...] I conjecture that there is no good algorithm for the traveling salesman problem. My reasons are the same as for any mathematical conjecture: (1) It is a legitimate mathematical possibility, and (2) I do not know.”

Knows Reason Problem Interest Known Class Possibility Mathematical Theoretical Salesman Algorithms Conjecture

Author:Jack Edmonds

“Thats one of my problems is that there are so many songs to sing that I sort of get indecisive about what I want to do in a show - because there are so many possibilities! There are so many great songs out there.”

Want Shows Problem Song Possibility Indecisive

Author:Alison Elliott

“The Healthiest Response to life is Laughter.There is always a reason to be grateful.You belong in the scheme of the universe. There's nothing to be afraid of. You are Safe.Your soul cherishes every aspect of your life.There is a Plan, and your soul knows what it is.Ecstasy is the energy of spirit. When life flows, ecstasy is natural.There is a creative solution to every problem. Every possibility holds the promise of abundance.Obstacles are Opportunities in disguise.Evolution leads the way through desire.Freedom is Letting Go.”

“Too much attention on problems kills our faith in possibilities.”

Problem Attention Too Much Possibility

Author:Price Pritchett

“One of the problems with trying to help underdogs, especially with government programs, is that they and everyone else start to think of them as underdogs, focusing on their problems rather than their opportunities. Thinking of themselves as underdogs can also dissipate their energies in resentments of others, rather than spending that energy making the most of their own possibilities.”

Thinking Trying Helping Problem Government Opportunity Energy Possibility Program Spending Resentment Underdog Government Programs

Book:Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)

Source: Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)

“Developing a skill is painful, though. It is difficult. And that's part of the satisfaction. You will only find meaning in what you struggle with. What you struggle to get good at next may not seem the exact right thing for you at first. With time and effort, however, you will discover new possibilities in yourself-an ability to solve problems, for instance, or to communicate, or to create beauty.”

Firsts May Problem Seems Next Difficult Ability Effort Struggle Possibility Skills Painful Satisfaction Communicate Solve Instance Developing Right Thing Find Me New Possibilities

Author:Atul Gawande

“Many people have tried to define science fiction. I like to call it the literature of exploration and change. While other genres obsess upon so-called eternal verities, SF deals with the possibility that our children may have different problems. They may, indeed, be different than we have been.”

People May Children Has Beens Different Problem Literature Deals Fiction Possibility Eternal Our Children Science Fiction Genre Exploration

Author:David Brin

“I start by thinking I'm going to make use of all possibilities without troubling any longer about problems when something starts to be art. I don't make the ETERNAL work of ART, I only give visual information.”

Thinking Giving Art Use Problem Information Possibility Eternal Visuals Works Of Art

Author:Jan Dibbets

“We need to hold in our hearts the possibility of a better world, not because we have candy-coated the problems or lied about what we can accomplish, but because we know that we do often win and make a difference, and that all the good things we have in the world are the results of those who have had the courage and commitment to have done this work before us.”

Knows World Needs Heart Done Problem Winning Differences Results Possibility Commitment Good Things Accomplish Making A Difference Candy Lied

Author:Cynthia Kauffman

“The saying "no self, no problem" probably comes from Zen. In their cultures, where Buddhism is kind of taken for granted, as well as karma, causality, former and future life, and the possibility for becoming enlightened, then it's safe to skirt the danger of nihilism, which would be, I don't exist because Buddha said I have no self, and therefore I have no problem because I don't exist. That would be a bad misunderstanding. But in those cultures, it would not be as easy to have that understanding as it would be here in the west, where we really are nihilistic.”

“In ordinary life, the phenomenology of embodied emotions is an excellent example for dynamic changes between transparency and opacity: You can "directly perceive" that your wife is cheating you, or you can become aware of the possibility that maybe it is you who has a problem, that your "immediate" emotional representation of social reality might actually be a misrepresentation.”

Problem Reality Might Social Emotion Wife Example Possibility Emotional Ordinary Excellent Perceive Cheating Representation Transparency Ordinary Life Phenomenology Misrepresentation

Author:Thomas Metzinger

“Holman's world is a worst case scenario but it's healthy to examine extreme possibilities. If the technology that is used for genetic enrichment in Genus had been distributed equitably, across society, it could have been nirvana, a great world where people don't fear the diseases that we die from. The problems that arrive are more to do with resource hording than technology itself.”

People Ifs World Has Beens Problem Used Dies Cases Technology Worst Possibility Healthy Disease Resources Extremes Could Have Been Scenarios Enrichment Worst Case Scenario

Author:Jonathan Trigell

“When the next big problem comes online, be it the Euro crisis, nuclear proliferation, an overstretched Internet, a killer flu, or any of the other possibilities I consider in X-Events, we will suffer a complexity overload.”

Problem Bigs Suffering Next Events Possibility Internet Crisis Nuclear Complexity Online Killers Flu Euro Big Problems Proliferation Overload Nuclear Proliferation Euro Crisis

Author:John L. Casti

“The problem with most intimate relationships is that they are not romantic. They do not involve a deeper knowing, and thus there is diminished possibility of sacred, transformative sharing.”

Problem Knowing Possibility Sacred Deeper Intimate Intimate Relationships

Author:Marianne Williamson

“Once the steam engine went away and we started moving into burning fossil fuels - not just burning them, but everything we do with oil - we've been experiencing [these problems] at an accelerated rate. The scary end-game scenario is getting closer and closer, about what we're going to be able to do to sustain life on this planet as we have come to know it. And I think this is a very real possibility, that we could be dealing with conditions we have no idea how to wrestle with.”

“The density of human population combined with the development of powerful and largely unconstrained technology has given us the problems of the anthropocene and the serious possibility of self-caused extinction.”

Humans Self Problem Given Powerful Technology Possibility Serious Development Population Extinction Density Human Population

Author:Dale Jamieson

“I think that when you sequester yourself, when you put yourself into another area where you can't be part of the main traditional culture you're limiting your possibilities in the United States and I think that's one problem.”

Thinking States Problem Culture United United States Possibility Areas Traditional

Author:Andrew Breitbart

“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.”

People Looks Real Problem Bigs Able Certain Given Common Audience Groups Week Possibility Bigger Disappear Neighbor Projection Motion Pictures

Author:Jean-Luc Godard

“The question is, we have a particular problem. How many religions are there in the United States? How are they going to get on together? One way, which has been the usual way historically, is to fight it out, as in France in the sixteenth century. That's a possibility.”

Way Has Beens States Problem Together Fighting United United States Century Possibility Particular One Way France Usual

Book:Collected Papers

Source: Collected Papers

“The Israeli-Palestinian problem becomes very acute with Gaza dominated by Hamas. With the possibility of the conflict escalating, not only in terms of Gaza but also the Hezbollah and Lebanon, with the continuing crisis in Iraq, which is very dynamic and unpredictable and which could get out of hand, and maybe even escalate and enlarge.”

Problem Hands Term Possibility Conflict Crisis Iraq Palestinian Continuing Unpredictable Israeli Gaza Lebanon Hamas Hezbollah Escalating

Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski

“Some of the large [municipalities] in Quebec can contain within them most of the answers to their own practical problems. And so lots of different possibilities for doing things in a practical and different way become available.”

Way Different Problem Answers Possibility Available Practicals Different Ways Quebec Municipality

Author:Jane Jacobs

“Perhaps I should say that in general there are three solutions to such a situation. I mean not only in Holland, but everywhere where there are minority groups: in America, in Vietnam with the Chinese. Everywhere there is the same problem. But there are fundamentally three, actually only two possible solutions. A possible solution is that the despised minority is able to establish its own state somewhere else. The other solution is a higher or lesser degree of assimilation. And the third possibility, which is not a solution at all, is the permanence of the tension and conflict over time.”

Mean Problem Situation Possibility Conflict Solutions Chinese Tension Assimilation Permanence

Author:Norbert Elias

“I think that that phrase from the Bible is one of the best definitions of "creative." When you are creative, you are in the world in the sense that you see what it is and know its problems and possibilities. But you are not of the world in the sense that you are not caught up in external things and are coming from your inner resources to create approaches that are yours alone and have potential to change the world.”

Thinking World Problem Creative Possibility Changing The World Caught Up

Author:Michael Ray

“It's frustrating when people get upset with me about not going out to DVD - the reason is that I plan to tour with the films for many, many years, not just a month or a week. Literally years. And as soon as I would put it out on DVD, it would ruin the financial possibilities of me making it a theatrical event. Whereas the book, the publishing of a screenplay, would not cause that problem.”

People Book Reason Problem Film Week Possibility Financial Upset Publishing Frustrating Theatrical

Author:Crispin Glover

“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.”

Trying Moments Problem Artist Audience Possibility

Author:Brian Boyd

“If we think that this life is all there is to life, then there is no interpretation of our problems, our pain, not even of our privileges. But everything changes when we open up to the possibility that God's story is really our story too.”

Ifs Thinking Stories Problem Pain Life Is Possibility Privilege This Life Interpretation

Author:Max Lucado

“To pay more is the easy way. In fact, the solution possibilities to the problem are many.”

Way Facts Problem Easy Pay Possibility Solutions Easy Way

Author:Vladimir Putin

“Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.”

Ifs Art Problem Dangerous Design Possibility Building Architecture Splits Modern Architecture

Author:Alvar Aalto

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