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Quotes About Potential

The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
The world had scaled itself down into endless inches of possibility. Her life could be lived in generous miniature.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them. The hunt to uncover those jewels—that's creative living. The
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I see a woman who has a deep curiosity. Who wants to feel but is worried- of herself? Of others? I'm not sure. But I think she has a fire banked within her. Maybe it's only embers now, glowing in the dark, but if tinder were to be put to those embers... oh, what a conflagration that would be.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
This has the potential to be a rolling doughnut
~ Elizabeth Moon
Besides . . . a mine is a terrible thing to waste.
~ Elizabeth Moon
some say that the difference between catholic guilt and jewish guilt is that the former emanates from the knowledge that we are all born already fallen, that there is nothing we can ever do to overcome the original sin; the latter springs from a sense that every one of us was created in god's image and has the potential for perfection. so catholic guilt is about impossibility, while jewish guilt is about an abundance of possibility.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
If we can't start by seeing an autistic child as inherently capable, interesting, and valuable, no amount of education or therapy we layer on top is going to matter.
~ Ellen Notbohm
What is done matters, but what is yet to do matters far more.
~ Ellis Peters
Some who thus take fire burn to the day of their death, and set light to many others, leaving a trail of radiance to generations to come. Other fires sink for want of fuel, but do no harm to any. Time would discover what young Meriet's small, desperate flame portended.
~ Ellis Peters
Limitations are only limited to the limitations of your limit .
~ Alfred John wildebees
The energy of a body which is due to its position, is called potential energy. The energy of a body which is due to its motion, is called kinetic energy.
~ Alfred Korzybski
So many worlds, so much to do,So little done, such things to be.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings
~ Alfred Marshall
Faraday was asked: "What is the use of this discovery?" He answered: "What is the use of a child - it grows to be a man.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Behind the spread grey masque of apparent death lay stores of accumulated life, ready to break forth at any point
~ Algernon Blackwood
Adventures come to the adventurous, and mysterious things fall in the way of those who, with wonder and imagination, are on the watch for them; but the majority of people go past the doors that are half ajar, thinking them closed, and fail to notice the faint stirrings of the great curtain that hangs ever in the form of appearances between them and the world of causes behind.
~ Algernon Blackwood
You (humans) think that you are insignificant, while there is a great universe contained in you.
~ Ali bin Abu-Talib
I have always believed in not compromising the form the drama takes by underestimating what its natural potential offers.
~ Ali Smith
Språk är som vallmoblommor. Allt som krävs är något som rör om i jorden och när något väl gör det, upp kommer orden, klarröda, friska, fladdrande i vinden. Sedan frökapslar som rasslar, ut faller frön. Så finns det ännu mer språk som bara väntar på att gro.
~ Ali Smith
Sound like a promise that can never happen.
~ Alice Childress
Billions hide me before I can arise on my golden wings or something
~ Alice Notley
Seja, portanto, humilde, respeitando o seu mapa astral, ou o de outra pessoa no momento em que o tiver diante dos olhos. Trata-se de um mapa para o reino do céu que está dentro de você, bem como uma descrição simbólica de um potencial ilimitado.
~ Alice O. Howell
Talvez tenhamos um acesso potencial a toda história arquivada nas próprias células do nosso ser psicossomático. Se assim é, devemos agradecer ao ego por nos proteger do que está além do que podemos suportar em qualquer dado momento.
~ Alice O. Howell