Quotes About Potential

I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.

The self-commissioned architect is the obviously exclusive potential - for as at present used, or designed, the world's resources are serving only forty-four per cent of humanity.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling in them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

15. "Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used."--

But social class is only one of an unlimited number of potential confounds present in MRA studies. Almost anything that's correlated with both the predictor variable and the outcome variable in such studies becomes a candidate for explaining the correlation between the two.

Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country.It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world.

the worst thing about regret is that it makes you duck the chance of new regret, just as you get a glimmer that nothing is worth doing unless it has the potential to fuck up your whole life.

Sometimes when you are feeling buried, you're just planted

In the largest study ever done on humans, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in 2005 that most Americans carry more than 100 pesticides and toxic compounds in their tissues, especially compounds used in consumer products, many linked to potential health threats.

You know, at some point people reach an age at which they can no longer be considered 'promising.' I think it is about the time they turn forty.

Fiction isn't what 'was'. It's 'what if'?

Nine is the age of great turning. Maybe humanity was a nine-year-old, not yet grown up, not a little kid anymore. Seemingly in control, but always on the verge of rage.

Don't worry if your job is small and your rewards are few. Even the mighty Ironwood was once a nut, like you.

High above Adam's prison, new creatures sweep up into satellite orbit and back down to the planet's surface, obeying the old, first hungers, the primal commands - look, listen, taste, touch, feel, say, join. They gossip to one other, these new species, exchanging discoveries, as living code has exchanged itself from the beginning. They begin to link up, to fuse together, to merge their cells and form small communities. There's no saying what they might become, in seventy plus seventy years.

Every man should be capable of all ideas, and I believe in the future he shall be.

The steady seepage into Oil Creek argued for a substantial underground reservoir. To find that reservoir and tap it would require investment. Silliman, the two men hoped, would certify the value of the petroleum to potential investors.

Personally I think there is no doubt that sub-atomic energy is available all around us, and that one day man will release and control its almost infinite power. We cannot prevent him from doing so and can only hope that he will not use it exclusively in blowing up his next door neighbor.

If the first choice the Target Committee identified at its first meeting was hardly big enough to confine the potential damage, it was the best the enemy had left to offer: Hiroshima is the largest untouched target not on the 21st Bomber Command priority list. Consideration should be given to this city.

he'd have to improve significantly to achieve mediocrity.

Had I been more, I'd be more. Simple.

See a flame in a spark, a tree in a seed. See great things in little beginnings.

Possibilitas tua mensura tua'(What is possible to you is what you will be measured by).