Quotes About Potential

We are all born with extraordinary powers of imagination, intelligence, feeling, intuition, spirituality, and of physical and sensory awareness. (p.9)

If all you had was academic ability, you wouldn't have been able to get out of bed this morning. In fact, there wouldn't have been a bad to get out of. No one could have made one. You could have written about possibility of one, but not have constructed it.

Very many people go through their whole lives having no real sense of what their talents may be, or if they have any to speak of.

To talk of humans as 'transcendent' is not to ascribe to them spiritual properties. It is, rather, to recognize that as subjects we have the ability to transform our selves, our natures, our world—an ability denied to any other physical being.

None of us gets to choose how we're born, it's what we make of ourselves afterwards.

Is there anything you can't do, Mr. Cruse?" she said. "I can't sing," I said.

Mr. Cruse, how high would you like to fly?" A smile soared across my face. "As high as I possibly can.

Modern scientific accomplishments" --a wealth of methods coupled with a poverty of intentions which, having nearly exhausted the hell-potential of the earth, move on now to the first frontier of the heavens.

By emphasizing a deep root and strong foundation, the student can reach to the high heavens without fear of toppling over.

You know what I like about George Bush? He makes me feel like I could be president, too. No, he does. He's like the first guy, like, from my reading level, you know -- the first guy, like, from my math class to finally go out and do something!

Women are more complicated when it comes to their affections: They rarely love simply for what is--but for what might be.

Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

So, even though your symptoms, at times, may feel all encompassing and completely out of your control, your awareness inserts a new variable, and with it comes the potential for change.

Of his first enemy encounter, Gen. Grant said that after his initial fear, "My heart resumed its place." Grant said he suddenly realized his potential enemy he had been "as much afraid of me as I had been of him.

We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don't have something better.

Isn't there a way to break the patterns of the past and tune into our highest future possibility—and to begin to operate from that place?

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

You are never too old to dream a new dream or set another goal.

It came to me that I hadn't known I had been being less than I could have been until then, when I saw there was so much more of the world for me to be myself within.

It came to me that I hadn't known I had been being less than I could have been until then, when I saw there was so much more of the world for me to be myself

Nobody can fall so low unless he has a great depth. If such a thing can happen to a man, it challenges his best and highest on the other side; that is to say, this depth corresponds to a potential height, and the blackest darkness to a hidden light.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

Everything psychic is pregnant with the future.