Quotes About Potential

THOSE THAT HOPE LITTLE CANNOT GROW MUCH." —George MacDonald, The Hope of the Gospel

The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.

Edward M. Hallowell

All people have their own special skills. Instead of just identifying deficiencies, schools should try to identify and promote those special skills as early on as possible. For

The great mathematician Alan Turing summed us up when he said, "Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine." That sums us up perfectly.

Barely, but I did. Then in college I did really well. Can you imagine that? Which is why I went to graduate school. But that was probably a big mistake. I should have quit while I was ahead. You see, my problem is I don't know whether I'm smart or if I'm stupid. I've done well, and I've done poorly, and I've been told that I'm gifted and I've been told that I'm slow. I don't know what I am.

The situation is now ripe for superposition!

Ho una teoria… su Miss Honeychurch. Le sembra logico che suoni il pianoforte in modo così meraviglioso e faccia una vita tanto tranquilla? Credo che un giorno la sua vita sarà meravigliosa come il suo modo di suonare. I suoi compartimenti stagni si romperanno, e musica e vita si fonderanno l'una nell'altra.»

chose young smart people just out of university because they were not set in their ways from previous jobs. Better to teach a young athlete who comes fresh to his sport than to retrain one who has learned bad form.

let's also promote the humanities, that which makes us human, and not use science to mess around with the wellspring of this, the absolute and unique potential of the human future.

To express this increasingly complex subject as succinctly as possible, the ancestors of our species developed the brain power to connect with other minds and to conceive unlimited time, distance, and potential outcomes. This infinite reach of imagination, put quite simply, is what made us great.

the broad definition of "epigenetic" used by the U.S. National Institutes of Health as "changes in the regulation of gene activity and expression that are not dependent on gene sequence," including "both heritable changes in gene activity and expression (in the progeny of cells or individuals) and also stable, long-term alterations in the transcriptional potential of a cell that are not necessarily heritable.

Every problem contains within itself the seeds of its own solution.

Perhaps the most devastating and damaging thing that can happen to someone is to fail to fulfill his potential. A kind of gnawing emptiness, longing, frustration, and displaced anger overwhelms people when this occurs. Whether the anger is turned inward on the self, or outward towards others, dreadful destruction results.

It has come to me of late that comparing one man's work to another's, naming one greater or lesser, is a wrong approach. The important and only vital question is, how much greater, finer, am I than I was yesterday? Have I fulfilled my possibilities, made the most of my potentialities? What a marvellous world if all would, — could hold this attitude toward life.

Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.

Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

What egotism, what stupid vanity, to suppose that a thing could not happen because you could not conceive of it.

Every newborn child brings with it; new thoughts and new life paths.

Everyone has some best abilities; don't underestimate others. They may cause you, feel sorry and pity.

Practically, impossible is not as easy as whoever removes the first two letters I and M of it literally and proves impossible possible.

Such calibre, having people are not yet born that will discover me.

Anything man can imagine is a possibility in reality

What was "violence" out there is "potential" in here...