Possibility Quotes - Page 23

I only use the computer for editing. I don't have an eight-track, otherwise I probably never would have bought a computer. When I first got my Mac, I was exploring its possibilities and had fun with all of the sound hacking software, but I'm not interested in that approach. I toyed with the idea of releasing a 12-inch of all the stuff I did early on but good sense prevented me from doing so.

Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.

One need hardly dwell on the catastrophic possibility of uttering a bantering remark only to discover it wholly inappropriate

In this political climate, people are so shut down to other ideas - I call it a hardening of the categories - that if you can get them to open up and laugh, there is a possibility of improvement, and a possibility of change. I think humor sneaks up on people, and before you know it, you're laughing at something you might not agree with.

Love is the only thing - I don't want to say that "makes it bearable" - but I feel like without the possibility of love, this place would just devour us.

Usually I love preparing. It's really the time I prefer, because it's a time of reflection and of possibility of growth - to let it cook inside.

To marry is to narrow one's possibilities horribly.

Only in love is there trust - even the possibility of trust.

Not to be alone. To be spared the possibility of knowing oneself, in aloneness.

Food has it over sex for variety. Hedonistically, gustatory possibilities are much broader than copulatory ones.

The world is the sum-total of our vital possibilities.

All we are given is possibilities — to make ourselves one thing or another.

The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.

The web of time - the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect, or ignore each other through the centuries - embraces "every" possibility. We do not exist in most of them. In some you exist and not I, while in others I do, and you do not, and in yet others both of us exist.

The stories people tell you about themselves seem to retain the possibility of being false. But what you discover about them by yourself seems to be the truth.

A [psychological] difficulty is not an impossibility.

The roles evolve over time: juries once made determinations about law; nowadays, they are supposedly limited to making factual determinations. A good move? All along, however, we will, be employing and refining "established" values in new contexts, with the possibility of restructuring them in some way.

Fear shuts off possibilities. The first thing that kicks in when you're reacting with fear... This is what I love about Roosevelt's quote, "There's nothing to fear but fear itself."

The possibility of disaster remains horrific to me. Like when you know everything's about to go wrong in a way that's not controllable or knowable.

I can't seem to be a pessimist long enough to overlook the possibility of things being overwhelmingly good.

If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.

Leadership is seeing the possibilities in a situation while others are seeing the limitations.

Vision without passion is a picture without possibilities.

I do not believe in the commercial possibility of induced radioactivity.

I think to put death on screen where it isn't that turns it into comic book time and there I think by desensitizing an audience, you really do open the possibility that someone is going to kill.