Quotes About Potential

Genius is talent provided with ideals. Genius starves while talent wears purple and fine linen. The man of genius of today will infifty years' time be in most cases no more than a man of talent.

I shoot very little film. If you just do coverage you're shooting any number of potential films instead of just one, and I was shooting just one specific film. Film is cheap but time is expensive.

Eleven would have been the best time. Eleven is just about the best age for almost everything.

Between the ages of 30 and 40 was the time when both my spirit and body were young and powerful and I could do anything!

I really feel like I could do anything if given enough time.

I had dreamed about being a college coach for a long time, but with no education, I never thought I would get a chance.

Most of the time, our limitations are self-imposed.

For the first time, I was the center of attention. Everyone watched me as if I were a bomb. Would I explode and cause a disaster or would I pop and cause a miracle?

Each time we consider a miracle impossible, or assume that we ourselves are not capable of working it, then we're choosing not to take flight.

The first time at age 5 and a half, when I took a racket in my hands and my father fed me some balls, I made 50 backhands in a row - didn't miss a single one.

It's a lot easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it. This would still take time.

God didn't have time to create a nobody.

In The Interestings I wanted to write about what happens to talent over time. In some people talent blooms, in others it falls away.

I went to acting school for like a year and ended up doing voiceovers and stuff. I could have done a lot more with it but at the time I really wasn't taking it seriously.

It is a belief in human potential that has guided me through my time in Government.

Maybe it's your time to lift off and fly You won't know if you never try.

The way I see it, the impossible happens all the time; but we're so good at taking it for granted, we forget it was once impossible.

Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.

Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.

It may have happened, it may not have happened but it could have happened.

Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

Inherently, each one of us has the substance within to achieve whatever our goals and dreams define. What is missing from each of us is the training, education, knowledge and insight to utilize what we already have.

Smiley said all a frog wanted was education, and he could do most any thing and I believe him.

The simple fact that he could, took the desire away, and the charm of it