#possibility

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk. ↗

— Rosalynn Carter

#best #branch #do your best #fail #failure

Were I to flatter myself with the possibility of success in such combat, it would indeed be presumption. ↗

— Anne Seward

#flatter #i #indeed #myself #possibility

On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been. ↗

— Bobby Jindal

#been #especially #family #following #give

Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone. ↗

— Karl Barth

#confidence #every #except #god #ground

[W]hat counts as ‘realistic’, what seems possible at any point in the social field, is defined by a series of political determinations. An ideological position can never be really successful until it is naturalized, and it cannot be naturalized while it is still thought of as a value rather than a fact. Accordingly, neoliberalism has sought to eliminate the very category of value in the ethical sense. Over the past thirty years, capitalist realism has successfully installed a ‘business ontology’ in which it is simply obvious that everything in society, including healthcare and education, should be run as a business. … [E]mancipatory politics must always destroy the appearance of a ‘natural order’, must reveal what is presented as necessary and inevitable to be a mere contingency, just as it must make what was previously deemed to be impossible seem attainable. ↗

— Mark Fisher

#capitalist-realism #ideology #nature #neoliberalism #possibility

If nature has taught us anything it is that the impossible is probable ↗

— Ilyas Kassam

#impossibility #impossible #maths #nature #possibility

If you think something’s too hard, it will be. If you think it’s just not possible or not possible for you, then you’ll probably be right. If you think it can’t be done then you’re not the person to do it. Because you’ll fail. ↗

— Peggy Haymes

#confidence #dreams #hope #possibility #self-help

Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history. ↗

— Idries Shah

#history #possibility #timing #equality

If a coin comes down heads, that means that the possibility of its coming down tails has collapsed. Until that moment the two possibilities were equal. But on another world, it does come down tails. And when that happens, the two worlds split apart. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#parallel-universe #possibility #equality

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility. ↗

— William Cobbett

#independent #nearly #poor #very