Quotes About Potential

Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do -- can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do.

No, being too busy isn't your reason for keeping clutter in your life. Uncomfortable though it may be to have so much unfinished work surrounding you, you keep those magazines and broken antiques because all that potential feels nice. Now take one more step in your thinking and what you'll find is a tiny but powerful fear of commitment.

Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Only give me the chance to do my very best!

I saw that six-figure women have two specific types of support that underearners seemed to lack—True Believers, people who recognize their potential and offer encouragement, and Way Showers, people who provide the map and serve as proof that success is possible.

1. What do you see as my major personality strengths? 2. What do you see as my marketable skills? 3. What kind of environment do you see me working in? 4. What do you think I need in a job? 5. What do you see in me that I probably don't see in myself?

But it was more than that. There was an indefinable ingredient, a kind of excitement. It had something to do with history and the past, that excitement, and something to do with potential as well, with what Orwell or somebody had said. that every man really knew in his heart the finest place to be was the countryside on a summer's day. I was happy, that's what it was.

If there have been mute inglorious Miltons in rural villages, presumably there have been unrealized Washingtons born in unpropitious times.

Your past is not your potential

Liberty is potential. To create a free being is to place before it the problem of its destiny.

The difference between a painter and a musician, or between a poet and a novelist, is not a difference of qualities in the entity itself; for each unit contains everything except quantity, and thus has the possibilities of development along any line chosen by its will.

At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me.

Give up the stories you've made up about what's "true" about your physical potential and just be with your breath and in your body, feeling what you feel. Give up trying to collect things in your practice. Give up the thought that whatever is happening within your body right now should not be.

It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

reduce mental interferences that inhibit the full expression of human potential

In the cold light of day, what seemed like a moderately ridiculous notion has become... surprisingly... possible.

Your life is limited to your vision. If you want to change your life, you must change your vision of your life.

If you can see it, you can be it.

There is no more effective way to destroy the leadership potential of young officers and noncommissioned officers than to deny them opportunities to make decisions appropriate for their assignments.

I was born for better things.

We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It's just beginning. When I think of the possibilities, it makes me smile.

If you are capable of perceiving it, you are capable of living it.

We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Everything that can be said on the nuclear threat has already been said. Nothing has ever happened.... Nothing will ever happen. It is a system of general terror. But we are as if turned to stone by this potential destruction.

Our achievements are generally limited only by the beliefs we impose on ourselves.