Quotes About Potential

If the talents I was born with are the right ones, I may someday achieve my goal. If not, I may go through life being as stupid as I am now.

If the young cannot harbor great dreams in their souls, who can?

Kalau orang muda tidak dapat menggantungkan cita-cita besar dalam jiwanya, siapa lagi yang dapat?

everyone has some type of magic inside them. If a person can find their magic and lovingly cultivate it, they'll truly feel alive every day.

I've come to believe that everyone has some type of magic inside them. If a person can find their magic and lovingly cultivate it, they'll truly feel alive every day. There is magic inside each and every one of you, too— I believe that.

The miracle of children is that we just don't know how they will change or who they will become.

Potential is not an endpoint but a capacity to grow and learn.

This book is for parents who understand that potential is not an end point but a capacity to grow and learn. Nurturing children's potential, in the broadest sense, means cultivating their humanity. It involves supporting their expanding abilities to reach out to others with kindness and empathy, to feel part of something bigger than themselves, to find joy and satisfaction in creating a life that is personally meaningful . . . and so much more.

Who is the learner and what is his or her relationship to knowledge and learning? Is he or she basically good or evil (or both)? Passive or active in learning? Capable of choice, or has life already been determined somehow? Motivated internally or externally? An unmarked slate or having unrealized potential? These questions are answered every day in every classroom, daycare center, or basketball court—answered by the way children are viewed and treated by adults.

how will you feel going to your grave without having tried?

Like a plant, the kind of seed that goes into the ground—your innate temperament—is only part of the story. The quality of soil, water, and sun also deeply affects the grown plant that is now you.

It can be just as present in adulthood as you see friends taking on careers, travel, moves, and relationships that you would fear. Yet deep inside you also know you have the same or more talent, desire, and potential.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

It's a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

What lies on the edge of perception, from where anything might come moving in?

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!

What you don't do can be a destructive force.

What one has to do usually can be done.

Obviously, it requires effort to use all your potentialities to the best of your ability, to stretch your horizon, to grasp every opportunity as it comes, but it is certainly more interesting than holding off timidly, afraid to take a chance, afraid to fail.

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water.

A woman is like a teabag. You can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?

Do you think Dino is intelligent?" "All children are, you just have to train them.

Nowhere is it written that you can't do it.