Quotes About Potential

Though finally the worst thing about regret is that it makes you duck the chance of suffering new regret just as you get a glimmer that nothing's worth doing unless it has the potential to fuck up your whole life. A

When something is claimed to be new, do not be too hasty to think it is just the past slightly improved - it might be a great opportunity for you to do significant things. But again it may be nothing new.

To those who held the behaviorist view, human potential was almost perfectly malleable, shaped by the environment.

Potential, and the will to deploy it. That's all magic is in the end, you know.

Give yourself permission to be a beginner. By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in the dark

Timid young artists, adding parental fears to their own, often give up their sunny dreams of artistic careers, settling into the twilight world of could-have-beens and regrets.

Too intimidated to become artists themselves, very often too low in self-worth to even recognize that they have an artistic dream, these people become shadow artists instead.

You could do it better if only you would let yourself do it!

En consecuencia puede que ni siquiera sepan que son artistas.

Todas as histórias de amor são potenciais histórias de dor. Se não no princípio, depois. Se não para um, para o outro. Às vezes para ambos.

When you are in your twenties, if even if you're confused and uncertain about your aims and purposes, you have a strong sense of what life itself is, and of what you in life are, and might become.

When you are in your twenties, even if you're confused and uncertain about your aims and purposes, you have a strong sense of what life itself is, and of what you in life are, and might become.

She was at that period of her life that almost everyone must pass through, when childhood is done with and a faux maturity, untrammeled by experience, gives one a sense that anything is possible until the arrival of real adulthood

Maybe we're born with a full set of qualities, some fine, some not so fine, and none of us knows what will bring out everything that lives within us. And sometimes it's the fine qualities that cause us trouble, and the not so fine that save us.

And much like a catapult, my dear, the lower you begin in life, the higher you can eventually fly. All it requires is the right person to, shall we say, effect the launch." -Miss Endicott.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." —Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nobody expects you to exhibit godlike strength, excepting maybe yourself.

All the same, our eyes spoke of something good, something deep, something that could grow and flower if the world we lived in would allow it. Something too precious to put into words. Something I would not dare let out into the light of day, not yet.

The future was in our own hands. If we wanted a world where such things were possible, it was for us to make it.

Can a split quill write fair script? Can a blunt axe cut wood for the fire? Can a cripple please a lady?

Inventions have long-since reached their limit--and I see no hope for further developments. -- Julius Frontinus, world-famous engineer (Rome, 10 AD)

You can only do what you can no matter how you try.

the idea was not at all extraordinary; like some windblown seed, it needed only a speck of ground and a drop of water to grow.