Unrealized Possibilities Quotes

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'

The imaginary is what tends to become real.

Yet, behind the night, Waits for the great unborn, somewhere afar, Some white tremendous daybreak.

I don't know what you think of me. And you certainly would never picture us together. But probably peanut butter was just peanut butter for a long time, before someone ever thought of pairing it with jelly. And there was salt, but it started to taste better when there was pepper. And what's the point of butter without bread? (Why are all these examples of FOODS?!!?!?!?!?!?!) Anyway by myself I'm nothing special. But with you I could be.

You have to learn to see the gold in dirt, which means that you try to spot people with potential as well as ideas that have potential.

History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities.

...as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened.

Toad, with no one to check his statements or to criticize in an unfriendly spirit, rather let himself go. Indeed, much that he related belonged more properly to the category of what-might-have-happened-had-I-only-thought-of-it-in-time-instead-of-ten-minutes-afterwards. Those are always the best and raciest adventures; and why should they not be truly ours, as much as the somewhat inadequate things that really come off?

So little of what could happen does happen.

The future stands in need of you in order to be born.

A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn't do.

There is much more opportunity than there are people to see it.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Most Muggles lived in a world defined by the limits of what you could do with cars and telephones. Even though Muggle physics explicitly permitted possibilities like molecular nanotechnology or the Penrose process for extracting energy from black holes, most people filed that away in the same section of their brain that stored fairy tales and history books, well away from their personal realities: Long ago and far away, ever so long ago.

We are blind to the worlds within us, waiting to be born.

If we measured life in the things that almost happened, we wouldn't get anywhere.

Undeveloped, the whole thing,tossed into a box before we really had a chance to know what we had, and that's why we broke up.

The opportunities for future growth are everywhere. Seeing the future has nothing to do with speculating about what might happen. Rather, you must understand the revolutionary potential of what is already happening.

Few love what they may have.

The future is a convenient place for dreams.

I am a collection of dismantled almosts.

How great a Possibility, how small a realized Result.

You are full of wonderful possibilities. Do something with them. The most painful regrets, those which never go away, are regrets of things not done, things never attempted.

The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A huge gap exists between what we know is possible with today's machines and what we have so far been able to finish.

The things that don't happen to us that we'll never know didn't happen to us. The nonstories. The extra minute to find the briefcase that makes you late to the spot where a tractor trailer mauled another car instead of yours. The woman you didn't meet because she couldn't get a taxi to the party you had to leave early from. All of life is a series of nonstories if you look at it that way. We just don't know what they are.