Quotes About Potential

I would sing around the house, and I would always play on things just because instruments were always there, but I didn't show any genius as a child. I wasn't a prodigy or anything like that.

It might be expensive to make music lessons available. But it's even more costly to deal with human beings who have half their intellect and spirit left undeveloped.

I played with Michy for Belgium. He is still young; he can finish and is very good. He just needs to adapt to English football, and he will. He is intelligent and a good player.

All children are much more intelligent than they are told they are or the school thinks they are; they just have different intelligences.

I don't think I'm intelligent to become an MP!

If college cut-offs are above 90 per cent in a particular class, then where would mediocre students with 60 per cent or 70 per cent go? Students who secure 60-70 per cent marks are also intelligent, but they could not get admission in courses of their choice for scoring lower marks than the toppers.

I well remember the pride that my parents felt when my brother and I went up to Cambridge, but I also know many friends that I grew up with - brilliant, funny, acutely intelligent girls - who never fulfilled their potential.

I obviously intend to play at a high level to show the boss that I can play more.

Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing.

The world is awaiting your gift - all you have to do is show up with the right intention!

I try to live intentionally, and the things that move me, I'm going to throw myself at them. I want to see what my potential is. I'm always curious to see what the edge is.

We await the successsive births in the soul of the child. We give all possible material, that nothing may lack to the groping soul, and then we watch for the perfect faculty to come, safeguarding the child from interruption so that it may carry its efforts through.

They must have begun in life knowing they were going to amount to something.

At the time, I didn't think it was a tragedy, Zack's fall, but later I wondered if the tragedies in life are only about when you could have been great but weren't.

The human body and mind are tremendous forces that are continually amazing scientists and society. Therefore, we have no choice but to keep an open mind as to what the human being can achieve.

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?

One good yardstick as to whether a person might be the right one for you is this: in her presence, do you think your noblest thoughts, do you aspire to your finest deeds, do you wish you were better than you are?

As long as you believe you are able, then there is no reason for it not to happen

What feminism means for me is simply that women, like men, are complete human beings with limitless possibilities.

You never know how far you can travel until you start walking.

The pursuit of normality is the ultimate sacrifice of potential.

Life has much of harmony yet in store for you.

Is it possible to create a world in which anything can and does happen?

One could only hope that this country, which had always been poor – not through a lack of resources, but because Portugal had decided that this was to be the country's fate- would finally develop to its full potential. I just hope that it would not go the way of other independent black nations, which had allowed their resources to plundered by large foreign multinational companies and leaders hungry for wealth and power. [281]