Quotes About Potential

Obviously there are a lot of 12-year-olds over in America who are incredible singers.

I always felt that I would become somebody outstanding, whether it was in singing, instrumental playing, orchestra conducting, or anything involving feeling.

I was in ballet classes, I took singing lessons, I started taking acting classes as a hobby. When I was younger, I had my mind set on dancing or singing.

When I was young, I had a beautiful singing voice.

The rain begins with a single drop.

Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.

We must ensure that every single child can go as far as their ability and their aspirations will take them.

I think anything's possible for me with my attitude and my desire to want to get better every single day as a person and as a basketball player, I think anything's possible for me.

You just wake up every single day with a clear mind and basically just have fun and be positive, because God knows what could happen, you know?

This is the place where anybody - like an African American kid raised by a single mom - can be president.

'Reflection' and 'Going Nowhere' would've been great singles because that's the exact sound that we wanted to achieve.

It was never on the cards for me to go to uni, going to a sink secondary modern in the Midlands. The threat was that if you didn't get your exams, you would end up in a factory. Which I did, but actually that was a great experience, and I would have even got an engineering diploma if I had stuck my three years out.

My dad really pushed me, my brother and my sisters from young to be great. We've taken the time and put a lot of work in, so I'm sure we can all go on and achieve some great things.

Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'.

The rock sitting on the shelf has potential because it can fall-it's the same way with the Internet. It has this potential. It's not really doing it yet, but it's about to.

The body can do amazing things in a situation when it is really called for.

If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would be no limit.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

Too many times, adults walk into situations, and people have already put them in a box: 'Oh, you write comedy.' Or, 'You're the development woman.' And it's not just our profession. It's hard to look at someone and say, 'What else is inside?'

My mother taught me that to maximize your philanthropic potential, you need to constantly challenge your capabilities and put yourself in situations that are not always comfortable. Through her example, I discovered that there is no more beautiful way to live a life than to live a life of service.

That's the beautiful thing about baseball. You can be any size and be successful.

Size doesn't mean anything - not all the time.

I think I can be pretty special. I think I can impact a lot in the NBA, especially with my size and my shooting ability and athleticism and just being a humble person.

The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.