I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.
I would never think of crying about any loss of an office, because that's always a possibility, and if you're professional, then you deal with it professionally.
Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
In science, progress is possible. In fact, if one believes in Bayes' theorem, scientific progress is inevitable as predictions are made and as beliefs are tested and refined.
Private enterprise can never lead a space frontier. It's not possible because a space frontier is expensive, it has unknown risks and it has unquantified risks.
The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and decision.
Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him.
Books make it possible for every person born into the world to begin where the previous generation left off.
The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
If you try to break into my house, you will be severely lacerated and possibly electrocuted, and I'm fine with that. Because if you're breaking into my house, you're on your own.
It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.
Don't be put off by people who know what is not possible. Do what needs to be done, and check to see if it was impossible only after you are done.
Cyber weapons provide the tantalising possibility of being able to cripple the enemy without inflicting lasting damage on them.
Michael Landon was the biggest influence. As a child, I watched him write, direct, star, and produce a TV show every week. He showed me what was possible.
This possibility bothered me as I thought it was not advisable to remain in one academic environment, and the long dark winters in Edinburgh could be rather dismal.
I still think like a critic, and I still analyze films like a critic. However, it's not possible to write criticism if you're making films.
I don't think about what I can't do or what I shouldn't be doing. I just think there are endless possibilities musically, really.
Often times, we think of girls as soft and vulnerable. And we don't really think of them as possibly being the solutions to some of the world's toughest problems, but they really are.
Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.
There's a long list of technologies that have now made it possible to carry out very precise search efforts in the deep sea.
