Quotes About Potential

It's one thing to have a lot of talent together. It's another to have everyone play at their highest level.

I wasn't highly touted coming out of high school, so it wasn't like I was expecting to get a lot of minutes. For me, I didn't know how good a player I was, even though I think I did decent as a freshman.

You are a large country, you have many resources, and you have people who are highly capable.

Everybody has talent it is just a matter of moving around until you discover what it is.

I want to help you to grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when He thought of you first.

The greatest forces lie in the region of the uncomprehended.

For He regards men not as they are merely, but as they shall be; not as they shall be merely, but as they are now growing, or capable of growing, toward that image after which He made them that they might grow to it. Therefore a thousand stages, each in itself all but valueless, are of inestimable worth as the necessary and connected gradations of an infinite progress. A condition which of declension would indicate a devil, may of growth indicate a saint.

I saw now that a man alone is but a being that may become a man--that he is but a need, and therefore a possibility.

For the future. For the unborn.

Every human is born of man and woman. Every human, at birth, is, or at least has the potential to be, beloved of his/her mother/father. Thus every human is worthy of love.

We are ready, sir; are angry, are capable, our hopes are coiled up so tight as to be deadly, or holy: turn us loose, sir, let us at it, let us show what we can do.

since he'd never even heard that described as being possible. And from that day on, whenever he found himself wondering

Sir, if you are as powerful as I feel that you are, and as inclined toward us as you seem to be, endeavor to do something for us, so that we might do something for ourselves. We are ready, sir; are angry, are capable, our hopes are coiled up so tight as to be deadly, or holy: turn us loose, sir, let us at it, let us show what we can do.

These and all things started as nothing, latent within a vast energy-broth, but then we named them, and loved them, and, in this way, brought them forth.

Sir, if you are as powerful as I feel that you are, and as inclined toward us as you seem to be, endeavor to do something for us, so that we might do something for ourselves. We are ready, sir; are angry, are capable, our hopes are coiled up so tight as to be deadly, or holy: turn us loose, sir, let us at it, let us show what we can do. --thomas havens

Man is meant to be a success." Each of us, he said, is unique and endowed with potentials unlike those of others. Success comes in finding your authentic self, the person you truly are, and becoming that person, tapping all of that untapped potential.

The dramatic arises out of the margin of opaqueness between a writer and his personages, out of the potential for the unexpected. In the full dramatic character lurks the unforeseen possibility, the gift of disorder.

To those of you who received honors, awards , and distinctions, I say, well done. And to the C students I say, you, too, can be president of the United States.

Recognizing and confronting our history is important. Transcending our history is essential. We are not limited by what we have done, or what we have left undone. We are limited only by what we are willing to do.

The grandest of these ideals is an unfolding American promise that everyone belongs, that everyone deserves a chance, that no insignificant person was ever born.

La poesía no es un conocimiento de sí, y menos aún la experiencia de un lejano posible (de lo que anteriormente no existía) sino la simple evocación con palabras de posibilidades inaccesibles.

Hay varias cosas que sin duda no haré. Es muy improbable que un día vaya a la Luna, que viaje en submarino o que aprenda chino, saxófono o ergódica, aunque tenga muchas ganas. Tampoco es muy probable que un día me vuelva oficial en actividad, estibador en Valparaíso, apoderado de un gran banco, cajero, explotador agrícola o presidente de la república.

Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?

When someone doesn't acknowledge the miraculous conditions of the cosmos, and instead attributes all the systemization and orderliness that we observe all to thermal energy, as if we should expect energy has some innate potential to create orderliness, it stinks of a kind of repression of the profound for no other reason than to avoid the philosophical implications.