Quotes About Potential

Figuring out whether a deal was worth doing was nothing if not an exercise in calculating risk: did the size of the potential return justify the risk of all the things that could go wrong? That's a question that every executive at every company has to be willing to tackle. A company that lacked the

Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.

Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves? Who knows what women's intelligence will contribute when it can be nourished without denying love?

Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to be themselves.

You may want to. Ask yourself, do you want Spring because you love her or because of her potential to breed?

The material's out there, a calm lake waiting for us to dive in.

[W]hen the mind is really absent, in that silence, in that unlimited space, your potential starts glowing, radiating, flowering. Suddenly you are full of cherry blossoms, a new presence, a new fragrance.

Just a little relaxation, just a little looking inwards, and the doors of immense potentialities open up. You are no more a beggar. Without conquering the world you have conquered the whole universe. Just conquer yourself.

My own experience is that everybody is born with a certain talent, and unless he lives that talent to its fullest, something in him will remain missing. He will go on feeling that somehow something is not there that should be.

Ordinary people given an opportunity are capable of accomplishing extraordinary things.

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

You may not feel outstandingly robust, but if you are an average-sized adult you will contain within your modest frame no less than 7 X 10^18 joules of potential energy—enough to explode with the force of thirty very large hydrogen bombs, assuming you knew how to liberate it and really wished to make a point.

After two weeks of working on a project, you know whether it will work or not.

A man is more than the sum of all the things he can do.

It is a well known fact that most artists produce their best work early in their career. They may refine what they do but you usually get the measure of what they are about on their first outing.

If you give people tools, [and they use] their natural ability and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.

Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.

I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.

If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.

Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time job and children.

You live, work and lead others in the most exciting time, ever! Are you strong enough?

Future strong is as focused on the success of every individual as it is on organizational success — creating an environment where people can achieve their dreams and full potential.

Calling upon our crucible moments allows us to transcend our own limitations. Those moments create completely new possibilities within each of us.

We all deserve the best possible future.