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Quotes About Potential

Your environment doesn't define you. I don't have a lot of money, but I can help train people and I can talk to people. We can all be mentors to the next generation.
~ Jackie Joyner-Kersee
I want to see how far I can train. I have to see how far my body will go.
~ Michelle Kwan
India is a big country. Here people are talented, they are motivated. If they train properly, I see no reason why India won't produce world class cyclists in 10 years.
~ Eddy Merckx
It's possible to train great people, but a person with great training who doesn't have certain characteristics is only going to go so far.
~ Wendy Kopp
If you do not train hard you will never fulfill your potential.
~ Maurice Greene
I think anybody can do any of these if they train. I don't recommend it, but anybody could do it if there was a need.
~ David Blaine
My number-one recommendation is to invest in people. Humans that are well trained are the inputs into this discovery process. And there's big opportunities still, I think, to do a better job of investing in people.
~ Paul Romer
Subliminally, I had always wanted to act. Although I had only performed in a couple of plays, I was serious about it and was subsequently trained by people like Lee Strasberg and Elia Kazan.
~ Martin Landau
Training is expensive, and a lot of kids don't get trained, perhaps. So I also identify with the kid or the person who has grown up in environments like I've grown up in.
~ Mickey Drexler
I would love to do something dramatic. I don't know if anybody will ever give me the chance, but I would love to try it. I'm trained in acting and spent many years working on it, so it's just a matter of opportunity.
~ Rob Riggle
I'd say I'm really, really good for a 16-year-old, which is where I peaked. I'm impressive, but not classically trained, not a concert pianist.
~ Simon Helberg
I trained very hard to get into medicine, so I won't say I'll never go back to it.
~ Holly Branson
My family has always believed that anybody can do anything if you are trained for it. So I trained with Barry John's in Mumbai, did marital arts, and then went to stunt school in the U.S.
~ Rana Daggubati
If I was trained as a dancer then I probably would have been a dancer, and I'm not.
~ Caroline Flack
I think I wanted to be a dog trainer or a ballerina. It always changes when you're a kid because you think you can do a million things.
~ Stacy Martin
I think there are a lot of great trainers out there, but they don't get the chances.
~ Bob Baffert
Ballet found me, I guess you could say. I was discovered by a teacher in middle school. I always danced my whole life. I never had any training, never was exposed to seeing dance, but I always had something inside of me. I would love to choreograph and dance around.
~ Misty Copeland
What the SEAL teams do, what our training does, is it chips away the outer that layer and shows you what you're capable of and not capable of.
~ Marcus Luttrell
My grandad and mom would drive me to training all the time, and from then - around seven to eight - coaches were telling me I had something special and needed to stick with it.
~ Loris Karius
I think 1:59 is something a human being can run. Or 1:58. Who knows?! If someone trains very well and thinks in a good way, then they can do anything.
~ Eliud Kipchoge
Not everybody out here trains with me; not everybody knows what I'm capable of. My coaches know what I'm capable of, my training partners know what I'm capable of, and I know what I'm capable of.
~ Kamaru Usman
There are a number of traits that combine to create entrepreneurial potential. We find that openness coordinates very well with successful entrepreneurs. The more open-minded you are, the more you see the world as it actually is. The more closed-minded, the more you see the world as you want it to be.
~ Adeo Ressi
Combining magic with technology is a good way to influence the trajectory of where technology is going and show people what technology could be in our lives and what it shouldn't be.
~ Marco Tempest
True inspiration overrides all fears. When you are inspired, you enter a trance state and can accomplish things that you may never have felt capable of doing.
~ Bernie Siegel