Quotes About Potential

emotional cost of potential trade-offs does more than just diminish our sense of satisfaction with a decision. It also interferes with the quality of decisions themselves.

the art of the possible.

God the Creator had made man in His own image, and that meant that every man and woman who dwelt under God's light was a creator of some kind, a person with an urge to stretch out his hand and shape the world into some rational pattern. The black man wanted—was able—only to unshape.

One cannot increase one's talent—that comes with the package—but it is possible to keep talent from shrinking.

Energy has a way of dissipating, you know; what can be done when you're eleven can often never be done again.

His relationship with his father had been like the unfurling of some flower of beautiful potential, which, when wholly opened, turned out to be blighted inside.

Every Christian has a capacity for the most magnificent Christlikeness. Yet, every Christian also has the potential to commit the most disgusting and horrible acts of the flesh.

We all have a central fiction about ourselves, a favored delusion about talent or untapped potential. Most of us hang on to it as if it were a lifesaver, even though the obsession with it is often the very thing that drags us down and prevents us from fulfilling some lesser but more obtainable goal.

Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.

Leadership is communicating people's worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves." Is that not also the essence of good teaching?

What lies behind us is nothing compared to what lies within us and ahead of us.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

We hear a lot today about identity theft. The greatest identity theft is not when someone takes your wallet or steals your credit card. The greater theft happens when we forget who we really are, when we begin to believe that our worth and identity come from how well we stack up compared to others, instead of recognizing that each of us has immeasurable worth and potential, independent of any comparison.

Leadership is affirming people's worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves.

Goethe taught, "Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.

Point out the potential failure paths, what not to do, but don't tell them what to do.

What is needed out there, and what is my unique strength, my gift?

Leadership is communicating to another their worth and potential so clearly they are inspired to see it in themselves.

beautiful definition of leadership: he taught that leadership is communicating others' worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves.

As an interdependent person, I have the opportunity to share myself deeply, meaningfully, with others, and I have access to the vast resources and potential of other human beings. Interdependence is a choice only independent people can make. Dependent people cannot choose to become interdependent. They don't have the character to do it; they don't own enough of themselves.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be." –Goethe

leadership is communicating others' worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves. Right

Vivimos demasiado del recuerdo y demasiado poco de nuestra imaginación. Demasiado de lo que es o de lo que ya ha sido y demasiado poco de lo que podría ser.