Katharine Viner Quotes

Approaching life through '40 Chances' gives reasons to hope and actions to take, and it offers fresh approaches that our world desperately needs.

Sometimes idealism and all that make believe makes the world a better place.

Visions describe what best should be, could be - if and when mankind has the will to make them real.

I don't think just scaring people is enough. That worked during the freeze days to a major extent, but we really didn't achieve that much even at that time. You have to have more, you have to give people hope and a vision of a better world.

I grew up believing that I could be the president of the United States. I was told I could be whatever I wanted.

We are not doing celebrity, personality, abusive politics - we are doing ideas. This is about hope.

If you think about the actual problems we are facing - all the crises - we have the means to solve these crises. The past has shown us we are able to do things we never imagined we would be able to do.

It's amazing. Life changes very quickly, in a very positive way, if you let it.

Every day I am inspired by what's possible.

Things don’t always get better. Sometimes they get worse. The only way things will get better if people make them better.

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals.

If people come out of an election and everyone’s despairing, everyone’s in a collective civic funk, we don’t get anything done. Simply reminding people of how bad things are and what you lost, nobody’s moved by that. People are moved by the sense of possiblity, a sense of hope.

I choose optimism. I hope to be a catalyst not only by providing financial resources but also by fostering a sense of possibility: encouraging top experts to collaborate across disciplines, challenge conventional thinking, and figure out ways to overcome some of the world's hardest problems.

I know that together we can and will help shape the future of this country for the better.

I always say kids are the future and if we can inspire them, the world will be a much better place.

I want to be a force that tries to revive the human spirit rather than crush it, to open possibilities rather than close them down. Sometimes a passionate negativity is the best way to do that.

When you are little, it's not hard to believe you can change the world.

I think everything is possible.

Imagination allows us to conceive of delightful future possibilities, pick the most amazing one, and pull the present forward to meet it.

Look at the world around you & imagine it in a better way.

Once you choose hope, anything's possible

Envision possibility. Don't worry who else believes in it; the universe is only looking for instructions from you.

What I like to think, and perhaps it is an adolescent thought, is that anything can happen. As long as you think that anything can happen, it will. We're all allowed to have our dreams.

When doubt is banished, #‎ abundance flourishes and anything is possible.

I wanted to get it all down, maybe out of my system. I wanted to be able to say, Everything's possible-if you believe and can get excited.