Quotes About Potential

Did you ever feel...as though you had something inside you that as only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren't using--you know, like all the water that goes down the falls instead of through the turbines?

Man is ignorant of the nature of his own being and powers. Even his idea of his limitations is based on experience of the past, and every step in his progress extends his empire. There is therefore no reason to assign theoretical limits to what he may be, or what he may do.

All the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is all that the world is.

All the lives we could live, all the people we will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is what the world is.

If we are to dream of things impossible, let's dream big.

La vie n'est pas assez grande pour y faire entrer tout ce que le désir peut imaginer.

Il resto era ancora nulla. Inventarlo - questo sarebbe stato meraviglioso.

Tutto il resto era ancora nulla. Inventarlo - questo sarebbe stato meraviglioso.

That young man will go far, she said. I don't know in what direction, but he will go far.

Do you know what makes for a good still life? I'll tell you: it's when the painter manages to convey a sense that something is about to happen. The objects in the painting all look immobile, but as you contemplate them you begin to feel that at any moment there could be movement. Somebody might come into the room. A storm might blow up outside. The wind will move the curtains. All of these things might happen.

Even though are canvass was small, still we could paint a masterpiece.

Great people only thank you for doing the impossible; what's possible, they say they can effect themselves.

First, he became aware of it. Many of us don't seem able to take even this step. Second, and most significant, he chose not to focus on reinforcing its weaker threads. Instead, he did the exact opposite: He identified its strongest threads, wove in education and experience, and built them into the dominating strengths we see today.

To develop a strength in any activity requires certain natural talents.

From this point of view, to avoid your strengths and to focus on your weaknesses isn't a sign of diligent humility. It is almost irresponsible. By contrast the most responsible, the most challenging, and, in the sense of being true to yourself, the most honorable thing to do is face up to the strength potential inherent in your talents and then find ways to realize it.

But not unlike the gremlins in the film of the same name who were transformed into nasty little critters if they were splashed or if they were fed after midnight, irrelevant nontalents can mutate into real weaknesses under one condition: As soon as you find yourself in a role that requires you to play to one of your nontalents-or area of low skills or knowledge-a weakness is born.

1. Each person's talents are enduring and unique. 2. Each person's greatest room for growth is in the areas of his or her greatest strength.

Rapid learning offers another trace of talent. Sometimes a talent doesn't signal itself through yearning. For a myriad of reasons, although the talent exists within you, you don't hear its call. Instead, comparatively late in life, something sparks the talent, and it is the speed at which you learn a new skill that provides the telltale clue to the talent's presence and power.

Pigeon, your wings are no good.

Every year, I am reminded of the kids who aren't in the freshman class and aren't graduating. I remember every single one of them. That is the worst of times for me, to see the future snuffed out.

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They will never believe that an ordinary girl could do such an extraordinary thing,' Genevieve worried. 'What would I tell them? 'Tell them there is no such thing as an ordinary girl, said Bloom.

They will never believe that an ordinary girl could do such an extraordinary thing," Genevieve worried. "What would I tell them?" "Tell them there is no such thing as an ordinary girl," said Bloom.

love-based thought that focuses on the possibilities and directs the situation toward a happy outcome.