Ben Okri Quotes

As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.

Hope is a moral choice.

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.

He can be as good as he wants to be; that's how good he can be.

What you want to do, and what you can do, is limited only by what you can dream.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

It seems everything is so full of possibilities one can hardly take it all in.

There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think.

The world is not limited by IQ. We are all limited by bravery and creativity.

What man can imagine, man can do.

If you have two hands or 30 hands, show me what you can do, and we'll go from there.

Roles are extremely finite, but human beings are infinite.

The most dangerous and wonderful creature alive is the human.

What is thinkable is also possible.

But what a man can do and what a man will do are two different things, he knew.

What people CAN do is very different from what they WILL do.

Entrepreneurs do more than anyone thinks possible, with less than anyone thinks possible.

But possibly I am something more than I suppose myself to be.

Look, Gail." Roark got up, reached out, tore a thick branch off a tree, held it in both hands, one fist closed at each end; then, his wrists and knuckles tensed against the resistance, he bent the branch slowly into an arc. "Now I can make what I want of it: a bow, a spear, a cane, a railing. That's the meaning of life." "Your strength?" "Your work." He tossed the branch aside. "The material the earth offers you and what you make of it . . .

Capability means imagination.

Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.

The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedness.

Nothing is inevitable if we are willing to contemplate what is happening.

The first thing you should know about people is that you don’t know the first thing about them.