Quotes About Potential

children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.

a name is almost always a sort of cowardice---an attempt to confine a thing to being only what it is, rather than what it may be.

Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops," reflected the late writer Stephen Jay Gould.

am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops," reflected the late writer Stephen Jay Gould.

You may have had that lonely conversation with yourself by now, but if you haven't, let me tell you. You can have people encourage you and talk to you all day long about your potential, but if you're not there, ready and willing to be that for yourself, you'll never be fulfilled.

It is the laziness of mind to believe that what hasn't been , cannot be and will not be.

T]o the extent to which an individual is potent, that is, able to realize his potentialities on the basis of freedom and integrity of his self, he does not need to dominate and is lacking the lust for power.

Destructiveness is the outcome of unlived life.

Olas? olmayan?n gerçekleÅŸmesi, olas?l???n s?n?rlar? içindedir.

Umut yok olduÄŸunda, yaÅŸam olgusal ya da gizil (potansiyel) olarak sona ermiÅŸtir. Umut, yaÅŸam?n doÄŸas?nda, insan ruhunun dinamiÄŸinde varolan bir öÄŸedir. YaÅŸam?n doÄŸas?n? oluÅŸturan bir baÅŸka öÄŸeye çok yak?ndan baÄŸl?d?r. Bu öge, inanç'd?r.

Yet this absolute power of God over man is counterbalanced by the idea that man is God's potential rival.

Just as man transforms the world around him, so he transforms himself in the process of history. He is his own creation, as it were. But just as he can only transform and modify the natural materials around him according to their nature, so he can only transform and modify himself according to his own nature. What man does in the process of history is to develop this potential, and to transform it according to its own possibilities.

We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest ones). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments…. We enjoy and even thrill to the godlike possibilities we see in ourselves in such peak moments. And yet we simultaneously shiver with weakness, awe and fear before these very same possibilities.

He is a prodigy in limbo. In both halves

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

He had destroyed his talent by not using it, by betrayals of himself and what he believed in, by drinking so much that he blunted the edge of his perceptions, by laziness, by sloth, and by snobbery, by pride and by prejudice, by hook and by crook. What was this? A catalogue of old books? What was his talent anyway? It was a talent all right but instead of using it, he had traded on it. It was never what he had done, but always what he could do.

It was never what he had done,but always what he could do. And he had chosen to make his living with something else instead of a pen or a pencil

Dizem que as sementes daquilo que havemos de realizar se encontram já todas dentro de nós, mas sempre me pareceu que, naqueles que troçam da vida, as sementes se encontram cobertas de melhor terra e de uma percentagem mais alta de adubo.

Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out.

He had destroyed his talent by not using it

Everyone needs to do what they can do, by how truly they can do.

Oh, Jake," Brett said, "we could have had such a damned good time together.