Quotes About Potential

I feel as if I'm always on the verge of waking up.

I am the outskirts of some non-existent town, the long-winded prologue to an unwritten book. I'm nobody, nobody. I don't know how to feel or think or love. I'm a character in a novel as yet unwritten, hovering in the air and undone before I've even existed, amongst the dreams of someone who never quite managed to breathe life into me.

Wise is the man who has the potential for height in his muscles but who renounces climbing in his consciousness. By virtue of his gaze, he has all hills, and by virtue of his position, all valleys.

O homem é do tamanho do seu sonho

I'm nothing. I'll always be nothing. I can't want to be something. But I have in me all the dreams of the world.

Lo que hay de mediocre en los sueños es que todo mundo los tiene.

Now he is something anyone can be.

The downfall of classical ideals made all men potential artists, and therefore bad artists.

Tengo en mí todos los sueños del mundo

To act – that is true wisdom. I can be what I want to be, but I have to want whatever it is. Success consists in being successful, not in having the potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace until it's built

The downfall of classical ideals made all men potential artists, and therefore bad artists. When art depended on solid construction and the careful observance of rules, few could attempt to be artists, and a fair number of these were quite good. But when art, instead of being understood as creation, became merely an expression of feelings, then anyone could be an artist, because everyone has feelings.

Pero el que sueña lo posible tiene la posibilidad real de la verdadera desilusión.

What grieves me is that my best is no good, and that another whom I dream of, if he existed, would have done it better.

Não sou nada. Nunca serei nada. Não posso querer ser nada. À parte isso, tenho em mim todos os sonhos do mundo.»

I'm nothing. I'll always be nothing. I can't want to be something. But I have in me all the dreams of the world.

Algunos simpatizantes me han dicho que de mí se podía haber hecho un buen político. Es posible, pero como se puede hacer un orinal con porcelana de Limoges: desperdiciando un material superior.

Zato on i napusti flautu, ushi?ena ose?anja, maštanja - jer svaki buržuj je, u jeku svoje mladosti, makar jedan dan, makar jedan minut, verovao da je sposoban za ogromne strasti, za uzvišene pothvate. Najobi?niji raskalašnik je snevao o sultanijama; svaki beležnik nosi u sebi ostatke nekog pesnika.

I have the ability to make my fantasies come true.

I'm fascinated by young people who do extraordinary things.

Some people are fascinated by what they know, and some are fascinated by what they don't know. I'm just very interested in what's possible.

You could have two completely different careers if you could stay healthy to 90. How fascinating that would be.

I think the fashion industry is limitless. Not everyone sees me as being part of their vision. But the people that have seen me, some of them have seen things in me that I hadn't even seen in myself.

People's fates in life are decided largely by their schools.

Most Americans, I don't think, could fathom the society that I grew up in. It is a completely different philosophy from America's. You are basically told what you can be by the educational system.