Quotes About Potential

All we are given is possibilities— to make ourselves one thing or another.

Or maybe I was just in progress. Hatching another character for another extraordinary story, yet untold.

We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to become much more than what we are.

There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.

I begin with the young. We older ones are used up but my magnificent youngsters! Are there finer ones anywhere in the world? Look at all these men and boys! What material! With you and I, we can make a new world.

You might be looking forward to working, falling in love, marrying, raising a family. You are told that you should expect to find a job paying so much, where your hours are so much, where your responsibilities are so much. That is what is expected of you. And if you live up to it, it will be an awful waste. If you expect that, you will be limiting yourself.

But nothing less than the most radical imagination will carry us beyond this place, beyond the mere struggle for survival, to that lucid recognition of our possibilities which will keep us impatient, and unresigned to mere survival.

Every infant born is testimony to the intricacy and breadth of possibilities inherent in humanity. Yet from birth* in most homes and social groups, we teach children that only certain possibilities within them are livable; we teach them to hear only certain voices inside themselves, to feel only what we believe they ought to feel, to recognize only certain others as human.

You have no idea what you're passionate about until you give it a shot. If I hadn't been given a guitar or a camera or whatever, I'd be doing something different.

I often get painted as the guy who's trying to tell other people what to make and what to like, and that's really not my goal, but I believe so passionately that games can be more than a lot of people think they can.

I believe people are fundamentally good and want to find things that make life better for themselves. There are social dynamics for people that work, and there are ones that are pathological. But beneath every 'no' lays a 'yes' that had never been broken. I put my life-faith in that.

The enjoyment of playing football gave me a positive pathway, but I could have taken a very different path.

The world still hasn't seen the best of Sean Paul.

Kante senses dangers and knows where the ball is going to be. He has that in his DNA. Paul Pogba has more in his DNA to be up there, create.

People who know Paul Ryan say, 'He will be president one day.'

In perfect conditions, with a championship mindset and ready to peak, anything is possible.

Sometimes guys peak early. They get drafted higher, and they make it to the NFL, and they don't have a lot of growth.

I don't know when I will peak and be at my best but I am learning every day and as long as I keep doing that I am happy.

I peaked early. I was told I'd missed my boat.

I'm not one to look at age and say that I've peaked.

Everyone wants to pencil you in as the kind of player that you're going to be after a few years in the big leagues. When you're still really young, they think that's what you're going to be forever.

Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else.

I think when someone becomes an actor, people say, Aw, you could see it in him when he was little. But I think you can see that quality in every little kid.

People say there's a book in everyone but I'm not sure there is. There might be a pamphlet in me.