Quotes About Potential

Knowledge is only potential power. For the power to be manifested, it must be applied.

To achieve the impossible, you need to first develop the mindset that it's probable. Please don't allow the current limits of your life define your future reality

Todo gran sueño empieza por algo pequeño.

Anyway, let me simply say that the place where your greatest discomfort lies is also the spot where your largest opportunity lives.

Most people live — whether physically, intellectually or morally — in a very restricted circle of their potential being. We all have reservoirs of life to draw upon which we do not dream

You're already everything you have always wanted to become

I am more than I appear to be, all the worlds strength & power rests inside me

One of the saddest things in life is to get to the end and look back in regret, knowing that you could have been, done, and had so much more.

Most people can't stand themselves. So, they can never be alone. And silent. They need to constantly be with other people to escape their feelings of self-hatred over all their wasted potential, missing the wonders and wisdom that solitude and quiet bring. Or they watch TV endlessly, not realizing it's eroding their imagination as well as bankrupting their bank account.

Potential unexpressed turns to pain.

Most people can't stand themselves. So, they can never be alone. And silent. They need to constantly be with other people to escape their feelings of self-hatred over all their wasted potential, missing the wonders and wisdom that solitude and quiet bring.

Have you ever seen the inner tube of a bicycle tire?" "Of course." "When it is fully inflated, it can easily take you to your destination. But if there are leaks in it, the tube eventually deflates, and your journey comes to an abrupt end. This is also how the mind works. Worry causes your precious mental energy and potential

When hope is hard to find, represent possibility.

Girls had to believe in everything but their own power, because if girls knew what they could do, imagine what they might.

Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.

Staying conscious means overcoming the auto-pilot mode and paying attention to everything that may relate to potential solutions, particularly those things that we take for granted or that we have come to accept as the way we do things around here. Always challenge current assumptions and beliefs in an effort to break through to a new level of thinking that may take you out of your comfort zone.

I was reminded of the child prodigy who was summoned to perform for a famous pianist. The child climbed into the piano stool and played something by Chopin with great speed and accuracy. When the child had finished, the great musician patted it on the head and said, "You can play the notes. Someday, you may be able to play the music." Puppet

Poor kid, I thought, to do this to yourself at twenty-three and leave a note that tells me you could have been a writer. I would have liked that for you. I would have liked that very much.

Technology provides the potential, by use of well-produced books, film, television, and interactive computer-controlled systems of various kinds. These, and other developments, provide many opportunities for expanding our minds-or else for deadening them. The human mind is capable of vastly more than it is often given the chance to achieve. Sadly, these opportunities are all to frequently squandered, and the minds of neither young nor old are provided the openings that they undoubtedly deserve.

Though it indeed seems reasonable to rule out space-time geometries with closed timelike lines as descriptions of the classical universe, a case can be made that they should not be ruled out as potential occurrences that could be involved in a quantum superposition.

Many of my better short stories are just the last chapters of novels I did not write.

Hell, we make our own ifs. I had better things to think about than what could have happend

Hell, we make our own ifs. I had better things to think about than what could have happened

Or supposing humans had developed different abilities than those they have now and had learned magic rather than, say, calculus . .