Quotes About Potential

O ser humano é aquilo que a educação faz dele.

B626 Sein ist offenbar kein reales Prädikat, d.i. ein Begriff von irgend etwas, was zu dem Begriffe eines Dinges, oder gewisser Bestimmungen an sich selbst... B627 Und so enthält das Wirkliche nichts mehr, als das bloss Mögliche. Hundert wirkliche Thaler enthalten nicht das mindeste mehr, als hundert mögliche... Aber in meinem Vermögenszustande ist mehr bei hundert wirklichen Thalern, als bei dem blossen Begriffe derselben, ( d.i. ihrer Moeglichkeit ).

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. – Edward Everett Hale

I've learned never to discount possibilities because of the odds—because all things are possible with God.

There is a time limit to how long a spirited young person can be kept in cold storage.

We are all potentially demons to each other, but some close relationships are saved from this fate.

Of what value after all is a power which one could never use, or at any rate did not know how to use?

All that had seemed impossible, too late, a dream, had suddenly become possible, even natural and inevitable.

we have futures. That means we can make things true…

As difficult it is tae conceive ay it at the moment, ah may yet find other uses for the organ, besides pishing.

Talent is only a starting point.

Diligence does not work if there is a lack of innate talent.

A great many things are possible." And to himself he added: But not practical.

It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition.

It is not important what can or cannot be done. What is important is what people will or will not believe can be done.

You are a military man and should know better. If there is one science into which man has probed continuously and successfully, it is that of military technology. No potential weapon would remain unrealized for ten thousand years.

Lo so. Lo sappiamo tutti. Forse la lezione del passato potrà insegnarci cosa evitare. E poi, la tirannia che c'è adesso è reale. Quella che potrebbe esistere in futuro è solamente potenziale. Non possiamo sottrarci sempre ai cambiamenti pensando che la situazione potrebbe cambiare in peggio, altrimenti addio speranza di riuscire un giorno a sconfiggere l'ingiustizia.

And it was the amount of energy a single human could produce that dictated military potential, standard of living, happiness, and all besides.

A civilization that is expanding through space will not need our few worlds and will probably be too intellectually advanced to feel the need to batter its way into hegemony here. If, however, we are surrounded by a more lively, a more vibrant civilization, we will wither away by the mere force of the comparison; we will die of the realization of what we have become and of the potential we have wasted.

The infinity of potential knowledge may be infinitely greater than the infinity of my actual knowledge.

Si eres brillante de joven, no significa que de adulto sirvas para algo.

Todos tenemos una reserva de fuerza interior insospechada, que surge cuando la vida nos pone a prueba

Aymaras—"children

through the loveliness and power of her dream world she was now, in her old frock and botched shoes, very likely the loveliest, mightiest and most dangerous person on earth