Quotes About Potential

I made the New Zealand team, won medals around the world. I thought, 'I'm blessed. I've got a good talent.' I had no idea, though, how good I might be. But I loved the sport.

The promoters in New Zealand weren't looking at me, they didn't see the potential. But when I was fighting in China they brought me over there as a journeyman so all their guys could whup up on me. Then they realised that's not gonna happen because I kept whupping up on their guys. Then they decided, 'Let's bring this guy into our team.'

Indeed there are powers in the small child that are far greater than is generally realized, because it is in this period that the construction, the building-up, of man takes place, for at birth, psychically speaking, there is nothing at all - zero!

It's hard to be creative and to see your potential when you've not even got ground zero, when you've not even got the foundations to be able to express yourself.

Every student - no matter their family income or zip code - deserves access to an education that prepares them to lead successful careers.

Education is important. And the difference of the zip code you grow up in or the zip code you are born in and how you turn out really isn't fair to the kids of our world.

No child's future should ever be dictated by what zip code they were born in.

Regardless of zip code, talent and IQ are evenly distributed, so we need to make sure that opportunity is evenly distributed, too.

Above all, I believe every child, no matter their ZIP code or their parents' jobs, deserves access to a quality education.

I know what it's like to access the privilege of a ZIP Code but also be born in one that could have destined me to something else.

It should not matter what a kid's zip code is nor should it matter what their mom and dad do or in some instance don't do for a living.

I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don't know anything about.

I encourage all humans to do something out of your comfort zone that forces you to adapt. You'll be pleasantly surprised of your capabilities.

I like learning stuff. The more information you can get about a person or a subject, the more you can pour into a potential project. I made a decision to do different things. I want to do things that have a better chance of being thought of as original. I do everything I can to disrupt my comfort zone.

Domestic terrorism has opened new war zones, operating off the assumption that all Americans are potential terrorists.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

How many 'coming men' has one known? Where on earth do they all go to?

They are able who think they are able.

In esse I am nothing; in posse I am everything.

Men habitually use only a small part of the powers which they possess and which they might use under appropriate circumstances.

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.

America is a country of young men.

Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid it will never begin.

We all have music inside us, and can learn how to get it out, one way or another.