Quotes About Potential

Every one of us has in him a continent of undiscovered character. Blessed is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul.

If you have a lane, you have a chance.

God gives us dreams a size too big so that we can grow in them.

For who hath despised the day of small things?

If the good Lord had wanted people to stay on the ground, he would have given us roots.

I thought he was a young man of promise; but it appears he was a young man of promises.

We [God] charge not any soul save to its capacity.

The impossible can always be broken down into possibilities.

Observe the opportunity.

Nevertheless, a maxim does not necessarily become a proverb. Many grubs never grow to butterflies; and a maxim is only a proverb in its caterpillar stage—a candidate for a wider sphere and longer flight than most are destined to attain.

How great a matter a little fire kindleth!

The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed.

Be more than a human being

Ever underestimate the potential for disaster !

Parvis e glandibus quercus [Tall oaks from little acorns grow].

If artificial intelligence and engineering can take us there, why not? Provided the engineered creatures are under human supervision, provided they have no way of acquiring autonomy and turning against us, and provided we will not have the means to program robots such that they can destroy the world, why not? It must be added that there are several dark scenarios regarding not so much future robots as future AI programs that do have doomsday potential and that need to be watched for.

Dare to dream! If you did not have the capability to make your wildest wishes come true, your mind would not have the capacity to conjure such ideas in the first place. There is no limitation on what you can potentially achieve, except for the limitation you choose to impose on your own imagination. What you believe to be possible will always come to pass - to the extent that you deem it possible. It really is as simple as that.

They'll say you're too little, Werner, that you're from nowhere, that you shouldn't dream big. But I believe in you. I think you'll do something great.

Don't be so quick to dismiss yourself," he says. "Sometimes the things we think are lost are only hidden, waiting to be rediscovered.

When all you have is a shard of papyrus with a few words on it...or a single line quoted in somebody else's text, the potential of what's lost haunts you. It's like the boys who died in Korea. We grieve them the most because we never saw the men they would become....How much easier it was to be a hero when you no longer walked the earth.

Life can turn out a million ways. - Pg. 82

Smart beyond your years. There are places for a boy like you.

They'll say you're too little, Werner, that you're from nowhere, that you shouldn't dream big. But I believe in you Werner. I think you'll do something great. -All The Light We Cannot See

don't limit me because of my disabilities - let my abilities exceed your expectations.