Quotes About Potential

When you are in school, your talents are without number, and your promise is boundless...But at a certain point, you begin to feel your talents dropping away, like feathers from a molting bird.

I believe that within every one of us is a woman of undiscovered beauty, a woman who is charming and talented and light of heart

So, you know what? I'm not ready to write Gen Y off just yet and neither should you, because I think we're going to grow up just fine. Yeah, it pains me to admit it, but the kids are all right.

What a man can do and suffer is unknown to himself till some occasion presents itself which draws out the hidden power. Just as one sees not in the water of an unruffled pond the fury and roar with which it can dash down a steep rock without injury to itself, or how high it is capable of rising; or as little as one can suspect the latent heat in ice-cold water.

Stem cells are like toenail clippings with a better career plan.

Often, QA has the best insight into design oversights and potential failure cases that others will overlook.

Too many would-be beautiful businesses that could reinvent markets and create substantial value live only in PowerPoint documents, never to be launched.

Only through understanding do we have any hope of harnessing the enormous potential that the world possesses.

I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.

Caterpillars can fly, if they just lighten up.

Difficult" and "impossible" are cousins often mistaken for one another, with very little in common.

My dad was an inventor, and I think I've always had a rosy view of technology, or at least its potential.

Anything can happen, the tallest towers Be overturned, those in high places daunted, Those overlooked regarded.

Only mediocre people are at the best all the time.

There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.

We are sitting on a cornucopia of knowing that we had no way to access as a democracy. We couldn't get the democratization of the human capacity before our time.

At a time of great social upheaval, all things are possible.

In another time, in another place, I wonder who they might have been.

It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.

He is improving all the time. He is only 21 and who knows what he is capable of. (on Cristiano Ronaldo)

That which we are, we are, and if we are ever to be any better, now is the time to begin.

There's still time for greatness

I see more people all the time feeling something growing from within them to more fully realize their heart's desire, their desire to give more, to be more, to do more.

I think it's a promising time which will show a lot of diversification that we've seen in the past.