Quotes About Potential

I wouldn't have told this to a soul back then, but as early as my first Wimbledon in '77, I realized I had the potential to be the very best: the best tennis player in the world. I confirmed it for myself as I rose through the rankings—but then, more and more, the problem became that almost everybody was somebody I shouldn't lose to. The pressure became incomprehensible.

It seemed possible that one or both of these books might change my life.

There is within each one of us a potential for goodness beyond our imagining; for giving which seeks no reward; for listening without judgment; for loving unconditionally.

No human is limited.

Well, because if we don't have enough capacity, we're cheating ourselves out of potential throughput. And if we have more than enough capacity, we're wasting money. We're missing an opportunity to reduce operational expense.

Most of the people who fail in what they want to accomplish do so because they underestimate who they are. When they don't believe they can succeed at something, they have little chance.

Our earth was just one thin example of what was possible, and because it was possible, this history was inevitable

All that power they'd squirreled away had needed to be released, focused, channeled.

Space was right there, inches beyond my fingertips.

It was a beginning. He was a seed. He could grow.

You've got a key inside you, and you don't even know it.

Nanoprocessors along my damaged spinal cord, improving in its functionality; the reflex boast that makes me potentially able to steer this improbable starship.

We do not always do what we are built for.

You're pretty bright when you allow yourself to be.

I hoped we never had to realize all the opportunities we missed in this life.

None of us can know what we are capable of until we are tested.

She said most people were good on the inside, where it mattered. You have to give them a chance to show their goodness, she used to say. Some people need more time, that's all.

When you look at them as babies in the cradle, you never know what they are going to become, but you always hope for the best.

Non esiste una parola peggiore di "potenziale". È la storia di tutte le cose che non saranno mai

Everyday holds the possibility of a miracle.

A child lies like a grey pebble on the shore until a certain teacher picks him up and dips him in water, and suddenly you see all the colours and patterns in the dull stone, and it's marvelous for the stone and marvelous for the teacher.

A child lies like a grey pebble on the shore until a certain teacher picks him up and dips him in water, and suddenly you see all the colours and patterns in the dull stone, and it's marvellous for the stone and marvellous for the teacher.

I guess I should have said that you're a tragic loss because your brains were yours and yours alone. You were the one who could pull the sword out of the stone. And you gave it all up.

The choice is not between what is and what was, but between what is and what will be, which, often enough, is nothing.