#possibilities

Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#future #past #possibilities #ticking #time

Someone needs to tell those tales. When the battles are fought and won and lost, when the pirates find their treasures and the dragons eat their foes for breakfast with a nice cup of Lapsang souchong, someone needs to tell their bits of overlapping narrative. There's magic in that. It's in the listener, and for each and every ear it will be different, and it will affect them in ways they can never predict. From the mundane to the profound. You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows what they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift. Your sister may be able to see the future, but you yourself can shape it, boy. Do not forget that... there are many kinds of magic, after all. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#gifts #magic #past #possibilities #stories

We know what we are, but not what we may be. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#identity #possibilities #being

Write this down: My life is full of unlimited possibilities. ↗

— Pablo

#belief-confidence #life #motivational #possibilities #attitude

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#discouragement #distinguishes #impossibilities #obstacle #permanence

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#been #believe #best #best work #doing

But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities? ↗

— Albert Claude

#claim #entitled #everything #exclusion #experimental

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities. ↗

— George Eliot

#dubious #eggs #full #handsome #hopeful

Show not what has been done, but what can be. How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#labyrinths #possibilities #beauty

I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#argued #cannot #coming #competitiveness #consequence