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Quotes About Potential

Authenticity reduces stress and produces faith in oneself and in the potential to grow and learn.
~ Arthur P. Ciaramicoli
Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for what might have been
~ Arthur Ransome
Out of any piece of wood a god may be carved.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
If we lived in a less healthist, capitalist, and hierarchical society, which spent less time finding ways to exclude and disenfranchise people and more time finding ways to include and enhance the potentialities of everyone, then there wouldn't have been so much for me to overcome
~ Arthur W. Frank
A new world is not only possible
~ Arundhati Roy
Nonetheless, what I saw was: better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try.
~ Atul Gawande
the vital questions are the same: What is your understanding of the situation and its potential outcomes? What are your fears and what are your hopes? What are the trade-offs you are willing to make and not willing to make? And what is the course of action that best serves this understanding?
~ Atul Gawande
Yet although the odds were against me, it wasn't as if I had no chance of succeeding.
~ Atul Gawande
It had never occurred to me that I could go.
~ Atul Gawande
We are not omniscient or all-powerful. Even enhanced by technology, our physical and mental powers are limited.
~ Atul Gawande
Somewhere in my mind, I must have been aware of the possibility that
~ Atul Gawande
There is almost always a long tail of possibility, however thin. What's wrong with looking for it? Nothing, it seems to me, unless it means we have failed to prepare for the outcome that's vastly more probable.
~ Atul Gawande
He warned them at length about how terrible the risks were and how limited the potential benefit.
~ Atul Gawande
What is your understanding of the situation and its potential outcomes? What are your fears and what are your hopes? What are the trade-offs you are willing to make and not willing to make?
~ Atul Gawande
What is your understanding of the situation and its potential outcomes? What are your fears and what are your hopes? What are the trade-offs you are willing to make and not willing to make? And what is the course of action that best serves this understanding? The
~ Atul Gawande
he has the potential for a full return to practice.
~ Atul Gawande
These places of possibility within ourselves are dark because they are ancient and hidden; they have survived and grown strong through that darkness. Within these deep places, each one of us holds an incredible reserve of creativity and power, of unexamined and unrecorded emotion and feeling. The woman's place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it is ancient, and it is deep.
~ Audre Lorde
Genom att försöka göra det omöjliga når man högsta graden av det möjliga.
~ August Strindberg
As I sat on the midnight PVTA bus to Amherst, I scanned the male faces, looking for a potential boyfriend. My standards were high: anyone who looked back at me.
~ Augusten Burroughs
we were particles that came together to form into star after star after star until almost forever passed, and instead of a star what formed was life ... This is why for you, anything is possible. Because you are made of everything.
~ Augusten Burroughs
Where there is nothing, absolutely anything is possible.
~ Augusten Burroughs
And possibility was my fuel. It was the One Thing that prevented me from slitting my wrists on any given horrid day. The fact that at any moment, everything could change.
~ Augusten Burroughs
One day you wake up and realize the world can be conquered...
~ Austin Grossman
I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
~ Ayn Rand