Quotes About Potential

It all started when I was 11 months old, singing a song by Jodeci in the back seat of the car. My mother turned around and said, 'Who is that?' When she saw it was me, she said, 'I think we have a singer on our hands.'

If you can do something great in 60 seconds, you can do anything, really.

When an opportunity comes knocking, you don't necessarily have to open your door. But you owe it to yourself to at least look through the keyhole.

You need the actors to feel as much ownership of the performance and the direction of the story as you do to get the most out of everyone's potential. Part of it is just making sure we all have the same vision.

People seem to think that, by the time you hit 45 or 50, you might as well just pack it in and call it a day.

I think when I was 7, at school they got us all to write the story of Joseph and his brothers. I got a bit carried away and wrote 12 pages - everybody else wrote a page. The teacher was so impressed by it that she put it up on the wall for parents' evening. I thought, 'Oh, this is something that I really like that I also seem to be quite good at.'

Twelve-year-old me wanted to do everything: act and sing and paint and dance.

I think of me being a painter eventually.

When I was in high school, I thought I might be an artist. I was very good at drawing and painting.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

You can't teach an ear, you can't teach talent, but you can teach people who have those things not to just fly by the seat of their pants.

Blank paper has always inspired me.

It's really interesting with scripts, because you never really know. It's paper and it could be great or awful. Even scripts that are good could end up not working.

I get a script and it's really interesting with scripts, because you never really know. It's paper and it could be great or awful. Even scripts that are good could end up not working.

Years before 'Tough Enough' came out - and I still have the papers - I filled out the entire application but never sent it in. I was like this is perfect, it's sports, I'm competitive, I could do that.

I still think in a parallel universe, I became a mathematician.

I have a paranoia that 'Ablutions' is the best thing I'll ever do.

No parent or coach can be true to any child and say he's ready for the N.F.L. out of high school.

It's no mistake that the moment of impregnation is called conception: at first, parenthood is nothing more than an idea.

The 1988 biopic of bebop immortal Charlie Parker, 'Bird,' was the film that opened my eyes to Clint Eastwood's potential as a filmmaker.

It is often said there is a great deal of talent in the Conservative Parliamentary Party. This is true, but too many of the brightest and best remain on the backbenches.

I had begun to write novels because of a fierce, self-serving impulse in my own heart. I had not considered the potential in a book for felt communion, the bright largesse of intimately participating in the lives of other people.

We need to find ways to elevate the expectations, particularly of those individuals who may start off on a lower socioeconomic rung, who might be seen as disadvantaged. But, you know, the reason I say be seen as disadvantaged, it's because life is so short, and there's so much that can change.

We have the flexibility to work with any potential merchant partner across the globe.