Quotes About Potential

Michelangelo is often quoted as having said that inside every block of stone or marble dwells a beautiful statue; one need only remove the excess material to reveal the work of art within. If we were to apply this visionary concept to education, it would be pointless to compare one child to another. Instead, all the energy would be focused on chipping away at the stone, getting rid of whatever is in the way of each child's developing skills, mastery, and self-expression.

Mustard seeds mean faith," she had said. "All you need is the tiniest bit for it to sprout and grow. And you can do anything with faith. . . .

Someday's better. It's always in the future, and it's always possible.

Whereas while you're travelling, nobody really knows. While you're travelling you still have the potential to do anything, be anything. It's only when you stop and actually try to do those things that you discover your own capabilities, I guess.

You never can tell what you can do till you try.

Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it yet. ~ Anne of Green Gables

If at thirteen you can write ten good lines, at twenty you'll write ten times ten-if the gods are kind. I think there's something trying to speak through you- but you'll have to make yourself a fit instrument for it.

Non è bellissimo pensare a tutte le cose che ci sono ancora da scoprire?

Talent is a spring from which fresh water is constantly flowing. But this spring loses its value if it is not used in the right way.

Man könnte sagen: "Genie ist Mut im Talent.

Drinking Shirley Temple with my Mary Janes on, let's say that every possibility waits

Already a congressman, to a mentor I hope sometime you run across something you think I can do well 24 hours per day.

Another characteristic of human nature—perhaps the one that makes us most human—is our capacity to do the unnatural, to transcend and hence transform our own nature.

Aos quinze anos, tudo é infinito.

Colombo não o teve maior, descobrindo a América, e perdoai a banalidade em favor do cabimento; com efeito, há em cada adolescente um mundo encoberto, um almirante e um sol de outubro.

These opportunities, then, gave these men the chance they needed, and their great abilities made them recognize it.

What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.

You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future.

It hasn't happened yet, nuclear war. No missiles have been sent. As long as it hasn't happened, there's a chance that it may not happen.

Strength can always be used to destroy as well as create

The child is aware of unlimited potential, and this munificence is one of the joys of creativity. Those of use who struggle in our own ways, small or great, trickles or rivers, to create, are constantly having to unlearn what the world would teach us...

we can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.

We argue that approaching our professional practice from a perspective influenced by the Slow movement has the potential to disrupt the corporate ethos of speed.

It occurred to me that kids could easily take over the world. They could hack in and use our own technology against us. Or just decide to stop helping us figure it out to begin with. Either way, we adults would be relegated to a life of servitude and there would be weekly keggers in the White House rose garden. The only reason this hasn't already happened is that the kids haven't figured it out yet. When