A Quote by Clay Shirky

More interesting than thinking about whats possible in 10 years is thinking whats possible now but that no one has built.

Clay Shirky

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Clay Shirky
American - Writer
Born: 1964

More interesting than thinking about what's possible in 10 years is thinking what's possible now but that no one has built.

Clay Shirky

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The only way to know whats possible is to venture past impossible.

Mary Gaitskill

I think, describing Elvis for me would be a very generous king. He was the king of rock and roll, will always be. He's whats made it possible for everyone to be performers and to do the things they do now.

Jackie DeShannon

If we [American nation] are only thinking about tomorrow or the next day and not thinking about 10 years from now, we're not going to control our own economic future, because China, Germany - they're making these [clean energy] investments. And I'm not going to cede those jobs of the future to those countries. I expect those new energy sources to be built right here in the United States.

Barack Obama

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Edward de Bono

It's endlessly interesting to be organizing and hearing possible solutions or thinking of possible solutions and how to put efforts together. It makes everything else boring, actually.

Gloria Steinem

The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about whats in style, whats current, what are the trends. Think instead of what you like to read, what do you admire, what you like to listen to in music. What do you like to look at in architecture? Try to make a poem that has some of those qualities.

Robert Pinsky

Confidence is consistency of thinking about what is possible and how to make it possible.

John Eliot

Life isn’t a music player where you choose whats being played, it is a radio where you have to enjoy whats being played.

Zayn Malik

When we're about telling the best possible story, making the best possible book - we're thinking about the reader, rather than about our egos. And then we serve the story. Not the other way 'round.

Sally Lloyd-Jones

Very possible! Possible, indeed. Maybe even probable, which, as you know if you study your arithmetic,can happen more often than possible. In other words, probable is more possible than possible. - Bubo

Kathryn Lasky

As a culture, were so worried about whats going to happen to us 30 years from now that we are not taking care of our brothers and sisters who need help today.