Exhaust The Possibilities Quotes & Sayings

I would define the baroque as that style that deliberately exhausts (or tries to exhaust) its own possibilities, and that borders on self-caricature. The baroque is the final stage in all art, when art flaunts and squanders its resources. — Jorge Luis Borges

As with most things, my approach to writing has been entirely ass-backwards. I first had to become everything but a writer
exhaust all possibilities. I had to come to it on my knees. Only when there was truly nothing left, was I able to become a writer. — Quentin R. Bufogle

Maybe there are only so many faces in the world. You get old enough, you start seeing 'em used again. Craw — Joe Abercrombie

Before you invest in anything else, exhaust the possibilities of investing in your own business first. — Paul Zane Pilzer

To put it in a nutshell- in Africa, your utmost strength is not enough to exhaust all the possibilities of life; in Europe your strength is exhausted before it is possible to life at all. A man with sound instincts, with the capacity and the strength to get things done, will always feel drawn to go where all his powers will be called upon. — Werner Junge

10. In battle, there are not more than two methods of attack - the direct and the indirect; yet these two in combination give rise to an endless series of maneuvers. 11. The direct and the indirect lead on to each other in turn. It is like moving in a circle - you never come to an end. Who can exhaust the possibilities of their combination? 12. The onset of troops is like the rush of a torrent which will even roll stones along in its course. 13. The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim. [The Chinese here is tricky and a certain key word in — Sun Tzu

I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life - certainly by the time you're 18. — Bruce Springsteen

History does include aspects of directionality, and the present range of causes and phenomena does not exhaust the realm of past possibilities. — Stephen Jay Gould

The epithets of imbeciles have never bothered me. — Rosa Bonheur

The informing idea of what you want to say and do, that's what will take you from film school to professional - the idea. That's what is original to you. — William Friedkin

I don't think that my work is actually effectively dealing with history. I think of my work as subsumed by history or consumed by history. — Kara Walker

Dynamical beauty transcends specific objects and phenomena, and invites us to imagine the expanse of possibilities. For example, the sizes and shapes of actual planetary orbits are not simple. They are neither the (compounded) circles of Aristotle, Ptolemy, and Nicolaus Copernicus, nor even the more nearly accurate ellipses of Kepler, but rather curves that must be calculated numerically, as functions of time, evolving in complicated ways that depend on the positions and masses of the Sun and the other planets. There is great beauty and simplicity here, but it is only fully evident when we understand the deep design. The appearance of particular objects does not exhaust the beauty of the laws. — Frank Wilczek

God does not flunk any of His children. He just re-enrolls them. — Adrian Rogers