Quotes About Potential

Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere.

Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.

There are some people in your life who bring back old memories. And there are others - your first kiss, your first love, your first sex - who, the moment you see them, bring a spark...and something far more potent. They bring back your old life and with that, potential. And possibilities. And the feeling that if you were back in that time, life could be so very different from where you're stuck right now. That's the most tantalizing thing....I want my potential back.

For me, Superman's greatest contribution has never been the superhero part: it's the Clark Kent part - the idea that any of us, in all our ordinariness, can change the world.

Quotes About The Impossible: â–ºWho defines what is impossible? No one. Impossible is simply the set of things that we have not YET achieved. â–ºEvery record ever broken and every formerly ''impossible'' journey began with one person, taking one step forward and acting on their dream. Hear, then, ''impossible feat'' (feet) as the ultimate oxymoron. *Quotations by Brad Mittman MD

A leader's job is not to put greatness into people, but rather to recognize that it already exists, and to create an environment where that greatness can emerge and grow.

There is so much stuff that has yet to be invented. There's so much new that's going to happen. People don't have any idea yet how impactful the Internet is going to be and that this is still Day 1 in such a big way. Jeff Bezos

I really can't say," the teacher replied. "Except that there is probably no limit to what he can do, given a little guidance.

We know all men are not created equal in the sense some people would have us believe. Some people are smarter than others, some people have more opportunity because they're born with it, some men make more money than others, some ladies make better cupcakes than others; some are born gifted beyond the normal scope of most men.

We know all men are not created equal in the sense some people would have us believe - some people are smarter than others, some people have more opportunity because they're born with it, some men make more money than others, some ladies make better cakes than others - some people are born gifted beyond the normal scope of most men.

Son, I can't tell what you're going to be—an engineer, a lawyer, or a portrait painter. You've perpetrated a near libel here in the front yard. We've got to disguise this fellow.

If you treat man as he appears to be, you make him worse than he is. But if you treat man as if he already were what he potentially could be, you make him what he should be.

If you're young and talented, it's like you have wings.

Instead of a stable truth, I choose unstable possibilities.

Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away.

That's wrong, she declared. Everyone must have one thing that they can excel at. It's just a matter of drawing it out, isn't it? But school doesn't know how to draw it out. It crushes the gift. It's no wonder most people never get to be what they want to be. They just get ground down.

When you're surrounded by endless possibilities, one of the hardest things you can do is pass them up.

What's more, you're loads better than you think you are." "So why is it I get to thinking that way?" I puzzled. "That's because you're only half-living." she said briskly. "The other half is still untapped somewhere.

I can feel the limits of what humans are capable of -- that a certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect...I find that encouraging.

If you think about it, an unfair society is a society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit.

But this thing, whatever it was, this mistlike something, hung there inside my body like a certain kind of potential. I wanted to give it a name, but the word refused to come to mind. I'm terrible at finding the right words for things. I'm sure Tolstoy would have been able to come up with exactly the right word

Está empezando un nuevo día. Quizá sea un día como los demás, o quizá sea un día relevante que, por diferentes razones, quede grabado en la memoria. En cualquier caso, por el momento, todo el mundo tiene ante sí un hoja en blanco, sin nada escrito.

Your life's just begun and there's a ton of things out in the world you've never laid eyes on. Things you never could imagine.

They weren't fact. They were possibility. Nothing more, nothing less, but the force of the possibility was shattering.