Quotes About Potential

Initially, when I was a nobody in the eyes of the world, I would often approach filmmakers hoping that they would see in me the potential that I saw in me.

At least I know that one film-maker in my career has had the initiative to come to me and thought of me as being capable of doing interesting and complicated work, and so I have a new-found belief that other film-makers will see me in a different way, the way that Patty did.

Restaurants are like kids. You hope you understand their innate gifts, and then you let them realize their aspirations.

We remain a country where a young person's chance of fulfilling their potential rests on the vagaries of where they were born and what their parents do, rather than their innate talent and ambition.

If you say 'I can't,' you'd better add on 'yet.' Once you start to change that inner dialogue, things that would seem completely impossible become possible.

We don't know: some little black boy or girl growing up in the inner city might grow up and cure cancer for all of us - if we let them do it.

A 50-year-old company can innovate as well as two guys/gals in a garage.

You can absolutely be what you can't see! That's what innovators and disruptors do.

I think everyone has music inside them, and my hope is that I can help them find it.

The 'Saw' sequels went in a direction I wouldn't have gone in. With 'Insidious 2,' I wanted to push a potential franchise in the direction I thought it should go in.

I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them.

I want to have a cultural impact. I want to be an inspiration, to show people what can be done.

There is inspiration all around us.

It is incredible how important doctors are to our society and how they help individuals live up to their full potential in life. I hope to inspire and help others fulfill their best selves as I do my best to become the top doctor in the nation in my future.

I hope that when people with Down's see me, they will be inspired to do more than they think they can.

I think that my script, if it gets used, would be great. But if it doesn't, I think it inspired them.

Every day I am inspired by what's possible.

I find most children quite inspiring.

A lot of potential scenarios create challenges. It's all about how you grew up, values instilled in you.

There's just a natural instinct to want to be great, I think.

We need a world class institution which will create leaders out of the children who have not had a good start in life.

A restaurant open for less than a month is many things, but an institution it most definitely isn't.

Institutions need a lifetime to realize their potential.

In order for New York to not only get back to where we were, but to finally fulfill our potential as the greatest city on Earth, we need people in charge who are going to fight for the working class, and not the corrupt institutions that have taken advantage of a broken system.