Quotes About Potential

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

And, I think: I am but one more drop in the great sea of matter, defined, with the ability to realize my existence. Of the millions, I, too, was potentially everything at birth. I, too, was stunted, narrowed, warped, by my environment, my outcroppings of heredity. I, too, will find a set of beliefs, of standards to live by, yet the very satisfaction of finding them will be marred by the fact that I have reached the ultimate in shallow, two-dimensional living — a set of values.

I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want.

have so many merry little pots bubbling away in the fire of my enthusiasm: Myron, future trips, modern poetry, Yeats, Sitwell, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, villanelles, maybe Mlle, maybe The New Yorker or The Atlantic (poems sent out make blind hope spring eternal—even if rejections are immanent), spring: biking, breathing, sunning, tanning. All so lovely and potential.

I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.

Non potrò mai essere tutte le persone che vorrei essere, né vivere tutte le vite che vorrei vivere. Non sarò mai all'altezza di tutte le qualità che vorrei avere. Perché desidero tutto questo? Io voglio vivere e sentire tutte le sfumature, i toni e le variazioni di tutte le esperienze fisiche e mentali possibili in questa vita

From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, ... I wanted each and everyone of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.

Olmak istediÄŸim her ÅŸeyi olmam, yaÅŸamak istediÄŸim bütün hayatlar? yaÅŸamam mümkün deÄŸil. Ä°stediÄŸim bütün yetenekleri geliÅŸtirmem mümkün deÄŸil. Ä°stememin nedeni ne peki? Hayat?mda, olas? bütün zihinsel ve fiziksel deneyimlerin her bir rengini, tonunu ve her çesidini yaÅŸamak istiyorum.

two over-lapping circles, with a certain strong riveted centre of common ground, but both with separate arcs jutting out in the world. A balanced tension, adaptable to circumstances, in which there is an elasticity of pull, tension, yet firm unity . . . . I do not believe . . . that artistic creativity can best be indulged in masterful singleness rather than in marital cooperation. I think that a workable union should heighten the potentialities in both individuals.

I shall be, in the future, omnipresent.

Olmak istediÄŸim her ÅŸey olmak, yaÅŸamak, bütün hayatlar? yaÅŸamak mümkün deÄŸil. Ä°stediÄŸim bütün yetenekleri geliÅŸtirmem mümkün deÄŸil.Ä°stememin sebebi ne peki? Hayat?mda, olas? bütün zihinsel ve fiziksel deneyimlerin her bir rengini, tonunu ve her çesidini yaÅŸamak istiyorum.

If a hundred-foot oak tree had the mind of a human, it would only grow to be ten feet tall!" —T. Harv Eker

In my experience, what you cannot see in this world is far more powerful than anything you can see.

lo que no puedes ver de este mundo es muchísimo más poderoso que cualquier cosa que puedas ver. Estarás

PRINCIPIO DE RIQUEZA: «Si un roble de treinta metros de altura tuviese la mente de un ser humano, ¡solamente crecería hasta una altura de tres metros!». T. Harv Eker

sí puedes cambiar los frutos del mañana. Pero

Recuerda, para desarrollarte hasta tu máximo potencial, debes vivir siempre al borde de tu caja.

Que juegues a ser pequeño no sirve al mundo. Nada

MajÄ…tku nie robi siÄ™ przede wszystkim dlatego ?eby mie? du?o pieniÄ™dzy, majÄ…tek robi siÄ™ po to ?eby móc rozwin?? swój caÅ'y potencjaÅ'

Samo oni koji rizikuju da odu predaleko mogu da otkriju dokle ?ovek zaista može da stigne.

You have to risk going too far to discover how far you can go.

Beyond anger, beneath fear, past numbness and alienation, there rests within each of us the possibility to be more than we are now. Magic is available. Wholeness is just around the corner. The power of wholeness is the power to change the world.

God has invested entirely too much in you for you to be comfortable in anything less than you were created to be.

What might have been is an abstraction Remaining a perpetual possibility Only in a world of speculation.