Possibilist Quotes & Sayings

There is nothing antithetical in American history, culture, or traditions to teamwork. Teams were important in America's history - wagon trains conquered the West, men working together on the assembly line in American industry conquered the world, a successful national strategy and a lot of teamwork put an American on the moon first (and thus fare, last). But American mythology extols only the individual ... In America, halls of fame exist for almost every conceivable activity, but nowhere do Americans raise monuments in praise of teamwork. — Lester Thurow

I'm neither an optimist nor a pessimist. I am a dyed-in-the-woo l possibilist! By this, I mean with an eco-mind, we see that everything's connected and change is the only constant. — Frances Moore Lappe

I am not an optimist. I'm a very serious possibilist. It's a new category where we take emotion apart and we just work analytically with the world. — Hans Rosling

the ideas of ravacious herds of feral domesticated housepets and oversized insects not only taking over the abandoned homes of relocated Americans but actually setting up house and keeping them in model repair and impressive equity, — David Foster Wallace

When you are entrusted with all the information, you have to decide how much other people should know, — Veronica Roth

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist. — Max Lerner

I turned back looking far away not making contact with anyone and I paced to my room with tears in my eyes, solitude in my heart and nuisance in my mind. I locked my door, rested in bed and slept while still desperate. — Shaikh Ashraf

President Lincoln chose to fight a bloody and unpopular war because he believed the enemy had to be defeated. He was right. — Pete Hegseth

For what will it profit men that a more prudent distribution and use of riches make it possible for them to gain even the whole world, if thereby they suffer the loss of their own souls? What will it profit to teach them sound principles in economics, if they permit themselves to be so swept away by selfishness, by unbridled and sordid greed, that hearing the commandments of the Lord, they do all things contrary. — Pope Pius XI

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. — Dag Hammarskjold