Quotes About Potential

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

Focus on each person's strengths and manage around his weaknesses. Don't try to fix the weaknesses. Don't try to perfect each person. Instead do everything you can to help each person cultivate his talents. Help each person become more of who he already is.

You have a genius.

People don't change that much. Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in. That is hard enough.

It's much easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it.

If I could give the young people ... but one word of advice, it would be this - 'Believe in yourself with all your might'. That is, believe that your destiny is inside you, that there is a power within you which if awakened, aroused, developed and matched with honest effort, will not only make a noble man or woman of you, but will also make you successful and happy.

Potential has a shelf life.

Inside the peach, there is a stone.

They are as happy as they can be, given who they are. Though if they'd been different people they might have been happier.

In theory I can do almost anything; certainly I have been told how. In practice I do as little as possible. I pretend to myself that I would be quite happy in a hermit's cave, living on gruel, if someone else would make the gruel. Gruel, like so many other things, is beyond me.

Inside John, she thinks, is another John, who is much nicer. This other John will emerge like a butterfly from a cocoon, a Jack from a box, a pit from a prune, if the first John is only squeezed enough.

What was in them was promise. They dealt in transformations; they suggested an endless series of possibilities, extending like the reflections in two mirrors set facing one another, stretching on, replica after replica, to the vanishing point.

Your legacy from him is the realm of infinite speculation. You're free to reinvent yourself at will.

It was our hands that were supposed to be full, of the future; which could be held but not seen.

They thought he was only what they could see. A nice boy but a bit of a goof, a bit of a show-off. Not the brightest star in the universe; not a numbers person, but you couldn't have everything you wanted and at least he wasn't a total washout.

When nothing is sure, everything is possible.

I don't see how you can go too far, in the right direction

potential moneymaker. So yes

realizing wryly that almost anything was possible when necessity drove.

Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.

Technology has limitations on what it can accomplish. You do not.

However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.

The question that motivates my research is, if we can put a man on the Moon with 100,000 [people], what can we do with 100 million?

We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.