Quotes About Potential

In an infinite universe, all things are not only possible but, no matter how improbable, certain to exist somewhere at some time.

We each of us have it within to make ourselves over, if we choose to do so. Most of us not only do not try, but don't even acknowledge that ability to ourselves.

Pug nodded. 'What do you fear the most?' Nicholas thought a long moment. 'Of not being as good as I should be.

Pug nodded. 'What do you fear the most?' Nicholas thought a long moment. 'Of not being as good as I should be.' Pug said, 'Then you stand a chance, Nicholas.

The object we call a book is not the real book, but its potential, like a musical score or seed. It exists fully only in the act of being read; and its real home is inside the head of the reader, where the symphony resounds, the seed germinates. A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.

The future is dark, with a darkness as much of the womb as the grave.

What we dream of is already present in the world.

Hope locates itself in the premises that we don't know what will happen and that in the spaciousness of uncertainty is room to act.

To me, the grounds for hope are simply that we don't know what will happen next, and that the unlikely and the unimaginable transpire quite regularly.

Stories migrate secretly. The assumption that whatever we now believe is just common sense, or what we always knew, is a way to save face. It's also a way to forget the power of a story and of a storyteller, the power in the margins, and the potential for change.

His name was privilege, but hers was possibility.

Spiderwebs are images of the nonlinear, of the many directions in which something might go, the many sources for it[.]

In those days we were exploring who we wished to become, what the world might give us, and what we might give it, and so, though we did not know it, wandering was our real work anyway.

The door to this era's potential paradises is hell.

You are as good as anybody and better than most

Fear is the cause and effect of the thoughts, feelings and actions that prohibit you from accepting yourself and realizing your full potential

But a man focused on the near horizon of cost can lose sight of the far horizon of potential windfall. -p139

A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.

You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.

We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.

You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. You're always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

Any powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until we choose to use it.

Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.