Quotes About Potentiality

I like having options, alternate lives unlived but always possible.

There's no such thing as nothing. In every nothing, there's a something. In fact, there could be everything!

Speaking very slowly, 'Did you ever feel,' he asked, 'as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren't using- you know, like all the water that goes down the falls instead of through the turbines?

Did you ever feel, he asked, as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren't using--you know, like all the water that goes down the falls instead of through turbines?

The vistas of possibility are only limited by the shortness of life.

The more they give up false security, the greater the opportunity they have for real security in genuine relationships built on honest choices and priorities. Only through breaking loose from bondage and fantasies of connection can we really be free to fulfill our human potentiality.

Sometimes it pays not to be interested in what happened but in what did not happen.

To live in the realm of the unpredictable is to be all potentials at once. Can you become comfortable in this empty space? If you can, you are at the nexus of a great creative power, the "I am.

Life is magical. There is something wonderful in being alive, in having within one's self all sorts of possibilities.

In ourselves we harbor the intuition of another evolution, of other possibilities of life.

Change just is the realization of some potentiality; or as Aquinas puts it, "motion is the actuality of a being in potency

Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.

The question shouldn't be what we ought to do, but what we can do.

BaÅŸka tür bir dünyada babam çok daha baÅŸar?l? olabilirdi.

Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self-illusion and nothing can grow there but your potentiality can grow only when you can think and grow out of that zone.

The actuality of these spiritual qualities is thus imprisoned, though their potentiality be not quite destroyed; and thus a crass, extended, impenetrable, passive, divisible, unintelligent substance is generated, which we call matter.Cheyn.Phil. Prin.

I have indicated, the most fundamental concepts of Aristotelian-Thomistic philosophy of nature (the theory of actuality and potentiality, hylemorphism, and so forth) overlap with those of Aristotelian-Thomistic metaphysics.

The determinable substratum of potentiality is what in Aristotelian philosophy of nature is meant by the term "matter," and a determining pattern that exists once the potential is actualized is called a "form.

Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's world.

We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.

Some hidden talent lies within everyone.

Life is full of what-ifs, many of which could easily have been realities, had just a few things been different.

Our earth was just one thin example of what was possible, and because it was possible, this history was inevitable