Quotes About Potential

Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us." —Susan L. Taylor, journalist

potential is meaningless until you do something worthwhile. The world is filled with sad people who had potential.

As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other idea has a chance.

Philosophy's greatest task is to enlarge our sense of possibility.

there is a lot more where that came from, thats just the tip of the iceberg"

So if you think that when you are better, it means that you can smash ahead and mate the guy, you are wrong, that is not what better means. What better means is that your position has the potential, if played correctly, to turn out well. So do not think that when you are better and when you are attacking that you can just force mate. That is not what it is about. Often the way to play best, the way to play within the position, is to maintain it.

It is rarely a mysterious technique that drives us to the top, but rather a profound mastery of what may well be a basic skill set. Depth beats breadth any day of the week, because it opens a channel for the intangible, unconscious, creative components of our hidden potential.

If I want to be the best, I have to take risks others would avoid, always optimizing the learning potential of the moment and turning adversity to my advantage.

The fact of the matter is that there will be nothing learned from any challenge in which we don't try our hardest. Growth comes at the point of resistance. We learn by pushing ourselves and finding what really lies at the outer reaches of our abilities. *

We could power a city with this energy, but it'd be a waste.

But the past doesn't have to be the future. That's the point of something you aspire to.

In contrast to prior generations, conflict is no longer seen as an unavoidable, and perhaps even necessary, component of family life, but rather a referendum on each person: Does my parent limit my potential? My happiness?

I don't know; I haven't heard from Uncle Stuart since the day we drove out to Brooklyn together to talk to Mirav Mendelsohn. I miss him, in a way. He meant so much more to me than I could ever mean to him. You don't get too many people like that. Roy Belisle and Bob Santacroce and Stuart Plotz- any one of them could have been something that was almost everything, if things had worked out just a little differently.

One cannot have an honest discussion about the potential of nuclear power without fully acknowledging the ravages of the Hanford project. This would be tantamount to debating the future of our dying oceans without bringing up the topic of climate change.

Be the best that you can be, because there isn't another one of you around.

By infinitely multiplying this necessity to conform, at the expense of developing the individual, unique 'self,' society succeeds in making a man 'good.' By frustrating his potential in numberless ways from the time he is born till the time he dies, civilization instills in him a pattern which is so rigid that he is often unable to express his true self at all.

in the middle of difficulty lies oportunity

Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.

Dreams come a size too big so that we may grow into them.

Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be.

A 2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

I am all that I am not, and I am not what I shall become—who knows?

How many geniuses die undiscovered, not only by others but, more sadly, by themselves?

Marshall's resolve to use sociological studies in the schools cases was rooted in his life experience—as the son of a bright man who never got an education and never became more than a waiter. Marshall saw the same trap still catching many young black people. They were defeated at a young age by limits they accepted about their talents and their right to an education.