Quotes About Potential

Coaching is unlocking people's potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.

To use coaching successfully we have to adopt a far more optimistic view than usual of the dormant capability of all people. Pretending we are optimistic is insufficient because our genuine beliefs are conveyed in many subtle ways of which we are not aware.

Los líderes deben pensar en sus empleados en términos de su potencial, no de su rendimiento pasado.

The True, the Good, the Beautiful. "[...] They're just around the corner, in the next corridor; they're in the next book, the one you haven't read, or in the next stack, the one you haven't got to. But you'll get to it someday. And when you do--when you do--

The True, the Good, the Beautiful. They're just around the corner, in the next corridor; they're in the next book, the one you haven't read, or in the next stack, the one you haven't got to. But you'll get to it someday. And when you do--when you do--

Instead of a call to the King and His kingdom, people are hearing a gospel that emphasizes self: come to Jesus and get this or that need met, be personally fulfilled, reach your potential.

Ability is a poor man's wealth.

We are complete in the womb itself, she thought in terror. We only unfold.

A poet and a doctor. Maybe I could. This the first thought I have of it. Maybe I could.

We never know how strong a beam a candle has until we try it in the dark.

It isn't where you came from; it's where you're going that counts.

It isn't where you came frome; it's where you're going that counts.

It isn't where you come from, it's where you're going that counts.

We use 10% of our brains. Imagine how much we could accomplish if we used the other 60%.

We use 10 percent of our brains. Imagine how much we could accomplish if we used the other 60 percent.

There is no limit to the good you may do. If

We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives... not looking for flaws, but for potential.

We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives...not looking for flaws, but for potential.

It is not primarily our physical selves that limit us but rather our mindset about our physical limits.

It may be in our best interest to proceed as though these and other abilities might be improved upon, so that at least we will not be deterred by false limits.

William James claimed that almost all of us use only the tiniest fraction of our potential.11 Only under certain circumstances of constructive stress or in certain states—great love, for example, or religious ardor, or the courage of battle—do we begin to tap the depth and richness of our creative resources, or the tremendous reserves of life energy that lie sleeping within us.

It's harder to begin something new if we focus on what it is going to be, and in doing so cut ourselves off from the possibilities that arise in the doing.

Andrew Young, a former U.S. Congressman and U.N. ambassador turned Wal-Mart spokesman, seemed to offer an explanation: "Poverty in America," he said, "is market potential unrealized." It seems that the poor benefit the discounting industry far more than the discounting industry benefits the poor.

Success will always find you if you're able to identify your true talent or gift. Simply search inwards for that which you're positively passionate about.