Quotes About Potential

Lacey was just as happy alone as with company. When she was alone, she was potential; with others she was realized. Alone, she was self-contained, her tightly spinning magnetic energy oscillating around her. When in company, she had invisible tethers to anyone in the room: as they moved away, she pulled them in.

You're Generation Manifestation.

Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common. —Satchel Paige

There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. We are all different. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there's life, there is hope.

The platform builders and ecosystem engineers do not just open a door in the adjacent possible. They build an entire new floor.

The adjacent possible is as much about limits as it is about openings. At every moment in the timeline of an expanding biosphere, there are doors that cannot be unlocked yet.

All of us live inside our own private versions of the adjacent possible. In our work lives, in our creative pursuits, in the organizations that employ us, in the communities we inhabit—in all these different environments, we are surrounded by potential new configurations, new ways of breaking out of our standard routines.

The trick is to figure out ways to explore the edges of possibility that surround you.

Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the flimsiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. We may go through life without suspecting their existence; but apply the requisite stimulus, and at a touch they are there in all their completeness.

Most people live in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness

This is our mystery: a rare and radical state of consciousness where the impossible becomes possible.

It's not how good you are; it's how good you want to be.

Provided the right environment and the proper encouragement, it meant that everyone had a shot at perfection.

When doing what we most love transforms us into the best possible version of ourselves and that version hints at even greater future possibilities, the urge to explore those possibilities becomes feverish compulsion. Intrinsic motivation goes through the roof. Thus flow becomes an alternative path to mastery, sans the misery.

It means you lose by not trying to play full out, by not trying to do the impossible—whatever that is for you.

When doing what we most love transforms us into the best possible version of ourselves and that version hints at even greater future possibilities, the urge to explore those possibilities becomes feverish compulsion.

Our limits are governed by flow's ability to amplify performance as much as by imagination's ability to dream up that performance.

Anyone who is equipped to hunt, harvest crops, chop firewood, or prepare salad has the means to damage a lot of human flesh.

Everything that is not forbidden by laws of nature is achievable, given the right knowledge; but that's the problem.

The mind cannot be a blank slate, because blank slates don't do anything.

You need a mind open to possibility, conditioned to love the creative spirit we all have inside ourselves.

We can change in one day. We can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in one day.

I love the idea that biodiesel has the potential to support farmers, especially the family farms.

You do have great love within you at this very moment.