I don't profess any religion; I don't think it’s possible that there is a God; I have the greatest difficulty in understanding what is meant by the words ‘spiritual’ or ‘spirituality.'
[Interview, The New Yorker, Dec. 26, 2005]
Tags: writing spiritual atheism understanding atheist difficulty possibility sarcasm spirituality
I dwell in possibility…
Emily DickinsonTags: possibility
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
John LennonTags: hope beatles possibility responsibility 1960s
Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.
Gloria SteinemTags: imagination inspirational planning dreams dreaming excitement possibility
We have this history of impossible solutions to insoluble problems.
Will EisnerTags: possibility ingenuity
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Thomas A. EdisonTags: inspirational possibility
It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them.
J. Robert OppenheimerTags: motivational science inspirational truth profound possibility necessary
Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
Mahatma GandhiTags: optimism strength confidence possibility skills abilities capability
Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.
Alasdair GrayTags: progress work possibility
But this was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve. Her life and her values could not bring her to that, she thought; she had never found beauty in longing for the impossible and had never found the possible to be beyond her reach.
Ayn RandTags: possibility destiny
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