Quotes About Potential

Me di cuenta que me estaba confiando secretos que podían destruirlo. Aunque quizá no se tratara de una cuestión de confianza. Puede que fuera un problema de autoprotección. De pronto, para mí, la plata había pasado de ser un accesorio a una fuente potencial de muerte.

I was going to be a late bloomer but I was going to bloom spectacularly.

An exhaustion came over her: the artificial weariness enforced upon someone who has many capabilities and is consistently prevented from using any of them.

The pressure on mothers to be selfless at home means that too many daughters discover their leadership potential only after walking out the front door. What would it mean to have leadership begin at home?

Sometimes you think you know what you want, she said, hugging her children, until you see how much more you can have.

You are more than your job title.

You Have a Gift, and It Is Immensely Valuable

Victory requires a fight. But the greatest risk of all is that you won't fight—that you'll allow fear to keep you on the couch, with your talent buried in the ground and all of its multiplying effects dormant and dead.

And then, a strangely comforting thought trickled through me—I had nothing, so I could do anything now. Anything I wanted. I had nothing left to lose.

The future is all around here.' It's a place, anyplace where we don't exist.

We all have some spark of creativity inside us. You just haven't found what lights yours yet.

All of my chupacabra books are like novelizations of movies that haven't been made yet.

You could become anyone, including your real self.

Education is great … but it's really my creativity that's taught me that I can be much more than what my education told me I am.

mind is a terrible thing to waste, and the United States is wasting too many of them.

If there are just ten life-changing decisions with only five alternatives for each of these, there would be close to 10 million distinct possible lives represented.

If you think the technology is infeasible, you don't worry about what it might do and what its potential is.

Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today.

Let it not be said by a future, forlorn generation that we wasted and lost our great potential because our despair was so deep we didn't even try, or because each of us thought someone else was worrying about our problems.

Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?

America is another name for opportunity.

Many time the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

There is a kind of latent omniscience not only in every man, but in every particle. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

All promise outruns performance.