Quotes About Potential

Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.

un mundo en el que cualquier otra alternativa resultaba inimaginable.

Still—nowadays, the most impossible things are possible.

We all carry many selves, but in the end, these are just phantoms of possibility, nothing more than ghosts of broken destinies.

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

The grand premise of religion is that man is able to surpass himself; that man who is part of this world may

If my father's son can become President of these United States, then your father's son can become anything he wishes.

If there is anything a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance

Tout étant devenu une source potentielle de capitalisation, le capital s'est fait monde, un fait hallucinatoire de dimension planétaire, producteur, sur une échelle élargie, de sujets à la fois calculateurs, fictionnels et délirants.

Hiçbir ÅŸey imkans?z deÄŸildir… Baz? ÅŸeylerin olma olas?l??? daha düÅŸüktür sadece.

ask always what's the best real possibility, not what's the ultimate ideal imagining.

Schools are like munitions factories," proclaimed the Reverend Percy Kettlewell, headmaster of a private boys' school in Grahamstown, South Africa, in 1913, "and ought to be turning out a constant supply of living material.

These are the two possibilities for human life.

Project: Potential was a separate class that the gifted students went to for an hour each day. The name was supposed to make it exciting, like Code Name: Cursive or Mission: State Capitals.

Human enjoyment was a fragile skin drawn over a great depth of potential misery

All we are given is possibilities— to make ourselves one thing or another. JOSÉ ORTEGA Y GASSET

Women move through the world never knowing their power.

From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.

Not all creatures can become as great as they think.

Our jobs make relentless calls on a narrow band of our faculties, reducing our chances of achieving rounded personalities and leaving us to suspect (often in the gathering darkness of a Sunday evening) that much of who we are, or could be, has gone unexplored.

While mourning the number of missed opportunities, we have no reason to abandon a belief in the ever-present possibility of moulding circumstances for the better.

The possibility of an alternative love story is a reminder that the life we are leading is only one of a myriad of possible lives and it is the impossibility of leading them all that plunges us into sadness.

Every person we envy holds out a piece of the jigsaw about our possible later achievements.

Yet there is a particular kind of pleasure at stake here, too. The news, however dire it may be and perhaps especially when it is at its worst, can come as a relief from the claustrophobic burden of living with ourselves, of forever trying to do justice to our own potential and of struggling to persuade a few people in our limited orbit to take our ideas and needs seriously.