Quotes About Potential

When you dare aspire upward, you reveal the inadequacy of the present and the promise of the future.

El cambio que altera lo actualmente predecible y ordenado también implica potencial para avanzar hacia un futuro más prometedor. Lo inesperado es, en sí mismo, información, una información necesaria para la expansión constante de la competencia adaptativa. Esa información viene envuelta en peligro y promesa.

The young man had come to realize that every place he might find himself in had more potential than he might first see (particularly when his vision was impaired by the resentment and cynicism he felt from being near the bottom).

If you will not reveal yourself to others, you cannot reveal yourself to yourself. That does not only mean that you suppress who you are, although it also means that. It means that so much of what you could be will never be forced by necessity to come forward. This is a biological truth, as well as a conceptual truth.

Question: Who are you—or, at least, who could you be? Answer: Part of the eternal force that constantly confronts the terrible unknown, voluntarily; part of the eternal force that transcends naivete and becomes dangerous enough, in a controlled manner, to understand evil and beard it in its lair; and part of the eternal force that faces chaos and turns it into productive order, or that takes order that has become too restrictive, reduces it to chaos, and renders it productive once again.

It isn't you I care about, it is who you could be

Chaos is also the formless potential from which the God of Genesis 1 called forth order using language at the beginning of time. It's the same potential from which we, made in that Image, call forth the novel and ever-changing moments of our lives.

I think we need more math majors who don't become mathematicians. More math major doctors, more math major high school teachers, more math major CEOs, more math major senators. But we won't get there unless we dump the stereotype that math is only worthwhile for kid geniuses.

anything is possible but probably not that

In order to fly you have to create space in the open air so that your wings can really spread out. It's like a parachute. They only work from a high altitude. To fly you have to begin taking risks. If you don't want to, maybe the best thing is just to give up, and keep walking forever.

Nem volt szükség a táborokra, hogy megtudjuk: az ember egyaránt képes a legjobbra és a legrosszabbra.

el talento es únicamente un buen punto de partida.

El espacio inconsciente tiene una capacidad mucho mayor que el consciente, ya que puede contener y manejar muchas variables que potencialmente ayudan a la mejor elección en una pequeña ventana de tiempo.

Una ambigua insatisfacción —magnánima o mezquina— nos impide reposar. El proyecto actúa como un proyectil para horadar la realidad y ampliarla con lo posible. Ciertamente, la posibilidad puede ser feroz, pero en su origen es esperanzadora.

Ho letto questi libri e posso raccontarti cosa dicono. Dicono: "L'impossibile non esiste.

Vas a ir lejos, tunante. No por nada te llamas José. Vas a ser el Sol, y las estrellas brillarán a tu alrededor.

nuestra vida es en todo instante y antes que nada conciencia de lo que nos es posible

El mundo o nuestra vida posible es siempre más que nuestro destino o vida efectiva

O homem-massa é o homem cuja vida carece de projetos e anda à deriva. Por isso não constrói nada, ainda que suas possibilidades, seus poderes, sejam enormes.

Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.

The world is the sum-total of our vital possibilities.

We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.

The youth is the hope of our future.