Quotes About Potential

You have a talent, and that's more than enough to bring you happiness.

It does not matter where we come from or what we look like. If we recognize our abilities, are willing to learn and to use what we know in helping others, we will always have a place in the world.

If we recognize our talents and use them appropriately, and choose a field that uses those talents, we will rise to the top of our field.

If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world.

I have to come to realize that God does not want to punish us, but rather, to fulfill our lives. God created us, loves us and wants to help us to realize our potential so that we can be useful to others.

he derives the utmost pleasure from leading a player across "the bridge of finding out who he was and who he has to be, or who he will be.

I'll project myself into several futures simultaneously.

This is the intelligence technique known as "coat trailing," dangling a potential recruit before the opposition in the hope that, if recruited, he or she can then be put to work as a double agent.

Baby talk has tremendous potential, despite its obvious dangers and its near-total incomprehensibility. The only reason you don't embrace it is your abject terror.

It may be that what you could be haunts you. It is real. It is a weight you have to carry around. Each failure to become, to be, is a weight. Each state you could inhabit is a burden as heavy as any physical weight, but more so, because it weighs on your soul. It is the ghost of your possibilities hanging around your neck, an invisible albatros, potentials unknowingly murdered.

So long as a canvas is empty its potential is infinite… The empty canvas can become a gateway into the landscape of nightmares or a vision of sensual bliss.

We must look at ourselves differently. We are freer than we think. We haven't begun to live yet. The man whose light has come on in his head, in his dormant sun, can never be kept down or defeated. We can redream this world and make the dream real. Human beings are gods hidden from ourselves.

we need a new miracle of being human. we need a new miracle of being alive.

The thoughts converged there from all realms. Ad each thought had infinite possibilities. He could have dwelled in any single one of those magical thoughts for a lifetime and to realised its full potential.

We can redream this world and make the dream come real. Human beings are gods hidden from themselves.

Still, the backfire potential during a live, unscripted televised exchange with reporters was significant.

We worried that one or both candidates would try to use the crisis for political advantage, complicating any potential deal in the Congress.

And as estimates of the company's cash needs grew, the interest of potential buyers waned. With

That outcome, too, carried risks.

Essentially, Aquinas argued that all things in life are a combination of actual and potential—that a candle, for example, is a candle right now, and has the potential to become a pool of wax when operated on by fire.

That Unmoved Mover will not be a combination of actual and potential at all—it will be pure actuality, since if it had potential, that potential could only be actualized by another force, which would continue the regress. This final Unmoved Mover, says Aquinas, is what we call God. And that Unmoved Mover must exist immaterially, exist outside of time and space, and be perfect—otherwise, the Unmoved Mover would not be pure actuality.20

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot.

The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car... a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little.