Quotes About Potential

Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.

Never before have humans been so ambitious, have they thought that they could be much more than their parents were.

I'm not cocky, I'm humble, but I think I can be really special, one of the top players in the league.

I love Ava DuVernay. It would be cool if I got to work with her one day. She seems like a humble person.

There are so many guys that they are talking about that may be the 'next one' or may be the next Bolt. That whole conversation is exciting to me and really humbling.

Yet there's a hunger in me still. I'm like only beginning. I feel like I still have so much to learn.

I want to show the world that there is more to Africa than poverty, hunger, and disease.

What counts is the question, of what is a body capable? And thereby he sets out one of the most fundamental questions in his whole philosophy (before him there had been Hobbes and others) by saying that the only question is that we don't even know [savons] what a body is capable of, we prattle on about the soul and the mind and we don't know what a body can do.

The child is a metaphysical being.

I can feel a better version of me somewhere in there—hidden behind a liver or attached to a bit of spleen

I can feel a better version of me somewhere

Maybe they were. Very little was beyond Noah's capabilities when he wasn't mounting a concerted effort to flunk.

The greatest gift you can give anyone is high expectations.

To understand what a person is, it is necessary always to refer to what he may be in the future, for every state of the person is pointed in the direction of future possibilities.

You stand in a puddle when I would give you an ocean...*

As long as nothing happens anything is possible...

Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. In a closely beleaguered city every sentry is a potential traitor.

Everything had seemed possibile. One could laugh at daydreams, but so long as you had the capacity to daydream, there was a chance that you might develop some of the qualities which you dreamed. It was like the religious discipline: words however emptily repeated can in time for a habit, a kind of unnoticed sediment at the bottom of the mind - until one day to you own surprise you find yourself acting on the belief you thought you didn't believe in.

I didn't lover her, and she certainly didn't love me, but perhaps in a way we could have made a life together.

One could laugh at day-dreams, but so long as you had the capacity to day-dream, there was a chance that you might develop some of the qualities of which you dreamed. It was like the religious discipline: words however emptily repeated can in time form a habit, a kind of unnoticed sediment at the bottom of the mind, until one day to your own surprise you find yourself acting on the belief you thought you didn't believe in.

Each man is a spark in the darkness. Would that we all burn as bright.

Kaip gali b?ti kažkuo, pirma nepabuv?s niekuo?

In the world of the superheroes, everything had value, potential, mystery. Any person, thing, or object could be drafted into service in the struggle against darkness and evil - remade as a weapon or a warrior or a superhero. Even a little bee named Michael - after God's own avenging angel - could pitch in to win the battle against wickedness.

You're much stronger than you think you are. Trust me.