Quotes About Potential

Genius, when young, is divine.

I don't think I'm a genius. Not yet.

I really want to work with Chris Martin. I think he's a genius.

I'm a bordering genius.

I firmly believe that the next great breakthrough in bioscience could come from a 15-year-old who downloads the human genome in Egypt.

I genuinely believe in the youth. I think the youth is our future and them having a great upcoming will be what changes the world.

I got to Germany without being scouted, and without any experience of playing for my country. But I was given the chance to excel.

I know what level my skills are and what I am still yet to be capable of by getting better.

Our country has the potential not just to be the giant of Africa but a major economic giant in the world.

I used to watch people like Richard Burton and Mel Gibson and think, 'I could never do that.'

Talent is a gift that can be given, and it can be taken away. We have to appreciate that.

It's a gift that I have and I became good at it. When I heard my first song I didn't even know that I could write songs.

You're gifted to do something.

I never really thought of myself as someone who was gifted.

In a real-world way, my gifts are very limited in terms of what I can do.

A woman's gifts will make room for her.

My favorite scripture is, 'Your gifts make room for you.' It's something I tell people all the time.

I've got some genetic gifts.

I think about all of my students who were math-phobic, who didn't believe they could learn math, who didn't understand, who didn't think they were smart enough, and by the end, they understood that they already had the gifts, and my job was to help them access them, and I believe that.

Within what gifts you are given you can change certain events in your life and some people choose not to do that.

It took me a long time to understand that there is no amount of wanting and no amount of desire and no amount of hard work which allows you to become a classical ballerina if you're not physically given the gifts.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

Freedom always deals with 'the possible'; this gives freedom its great flexibility, its fascination, and its dangers.

I could have been a lot more famous and played leading men and everything. For whatever reason, I didn't go for it.