Quotes About Potential

For this cause also children cannot be happy, for they are not old enough to be capable of noble acts; when children are spoken of as happy, it is in compliment to their promise for the future.

No debemos, a pesar de no ser más que hombres, limitarnos, como quieren algunos, a los conocimientos y sentimientos puramente humanos: ni reducirnos, mortales como somos, a una condición mortal; es preciso, por lo contrario, que en cuanto de nosotros dependa nos desatemos de los lazos de la condición mortal, y hagamos lo posible por vivir conforme a lo mejor que hay en nosotros.

M?c tiêu lá»›n nh?t c?a ??i ng??i là s?ng Ä'úng vá»›i ti?m n?ng c?a b?n thân

As I have previously said, the chief beauty about the constant supply of time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoilt, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your career.

Eventually, I sickened of people, myself included, who didn't think enough of themselves to make something of themselves—people who did only what they had to and never what they could have done. I learned from them the infected loneliness that comes at the end of every misspent day. I knew I could do better. —MARK TWIGHT, "I Hurt, Therefore I Am

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. -Horace

science fiction is something that could happen - but usually you wouldn't want it to. Fantasy is something that couldn't happen - though often you only wish that it could.

Then he [The Star Child] waited, marshaling his thoughts and brooding over his still untested powers. For though he was master of the world, he was not quite sure what to do next. But he would think of something.

La única posibilidad de descubrir los límites de lo posible es aventurarse un poco más allá de ellos, hacia lo imposible.

All that had gone before was not a thousandth of what was yet to come; the story of this star had barely begun.

There was no evidence that the intelligence of the human race had improved, but for the first time everyone was given the fullest opportunity of using what brain he had.

Pero nadie pensaba que llegaría muy lejos, porque ni siquiera creo que fuera capaz de integrar e elevado a x. - ¿Es posible tal ignorancia? - preguntó alguien con asombro. - Puede que esté exagerando. Digamos x por e elevado a x.

I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.

All these potentialities, all these latent powers—we do not possess them, nor do we understand them. Our intellects are far more powerful than yours, but there is something in your minds that has always eluded us.

The time had not yet come when Man could leave his mark upon the Solar System.

We can be sure of talent; We can only pray for genius

parecía ahora desoladoramente primitiva ante los poderes que le estaban llevando a un inimaginable sino.

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible

It is more than possible; it is probable.

Yes, there are in me the makings of a very fine loafer, and also of a pretty spry sort of fellow. I often think of those lines of old Goethe : 'Schade, daß die Natur nur einen Menschen aus dir schuf; Denn zum würdigen Mann war und zum Schelmen der Stoff.'

Some people without possesing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it

It is only when you touch the higher that you realize how low we may be among the possibilities of creation.

There are in me the makings of a very fine loafer...