Quotes About Potential

It may not be finished between us after all, Christina. It may be just beginning.

But if we all avoided doing anything for which we are not exceptionally gifted, we would do almost nothing at all and would never discover what we can become. Instead we would waste much of the span of life allotted us in keeping safe, confining activities.

Stop overestimating the challenge and underestimating yourself. —MARY CHRISTENSEN

Add water, and the soil is so fertile that you could plant a pencil and harvest a book.

the best man for the job can sometimes be a four-year-old girl.

Tomorrow! How sweet its prospects for a drunkard the night before. There is no better word. Before the earth hurls itself into sunshine, nothing is not possible.

Every now and then we enter the presence of the numinous and deduce for an instant how we're formed, in what detail the force that infuses every petal might specifically run through us, wishing only to lure us into our full potential.

As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given.

In every heart there is a coward and a procrastinator./In every heart there is a god of flowers, just waiting/to come out of its cloud and lift its wings.

I have a lot of edges called Perhaps and almost nothing you can call Certainty.

I saw what a child must love, I saw what love might have done had we loved in time.

We are unfashioned creatures, but half made up...

Used every man according to his capacity.

Arthur thought it better to make sure that the scattered Saxon forces could not re-form, at least while he came south for his father's burial. He is young,she said, for such a charge. I smiled. But ready for it, and more than able. Believe me, it was like seeing a young falcon take to the air, or a swan to the water.

In this restricted sense continuity may be said to bring a notion of infinity in its wake – the notion of potential infinity which is associated with the idea of a never-ending process, or an operation which is indefinitely repeatable, such as that of adding one to a whole number. But in such cases there is no infinite collection of actual parts of space or time and no actual completed infinite totality of numbers.

La invención, debe ser admitido humildemente, no consiste en crear desde el vacío, sino desde el caos [...] consiste en la capacidad de atrapar las posibilidades de un tema y en el poder de moldear y dar forma a las ideas que sugiere.

became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter.

Once I falsely hoped to meet with beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding.

Avec de l'entrainement même un raté peut devenir un génie

Personne n'a le droit de nous juger avant la fin, parce que nous les hommes, on est capable du meilleur comme du pire

We only need to be one person. We only need to feel one existence. We don't have to do everything in order to be everything, because we are already infinite. While we are alive we always contain a future of multifarious possibility.

And even if you were a pawn - maybe we all are - then you should remember that a pawn is the most magical piece of all. It might look small and ordinary but it isn't. because a pawn is never just a pawn. A pawn is a queen-in-waiting. All you need to do is find a way to keep moving forward. One square after another. And you can get to the other side and unlock all kinds of power.

The only limitations for your life are the limiting beliefs in your mind. —Matt Morris

There is no passion to be found playing small—in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.   —Nelson Mandela