Quotes About Potential

The majority of men never learn that the urge of sex has other possibilities, which far transcend in importance, that of mere physical expression. The majority of those who make this discovery, do so after having wasted many years at a period when the sex energy is at its height, prior to the age of fortyfive to fifty. This usually is followed by noteworthy achievement.

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie Which we ascribe to heaven; the fated sky Gives us free scope; and only backward pulls Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull. How much I could do if I only tried. * (1803-1873) English dramatist, novelist, and politician.

Knowledge will not attract money, unless it is organized, and intelligently directed, through practical plans of action, to the definite end of accumulation of money. Lack of understanding of this fact has been the source of confusion to millions of people who falsely believe that "knowledge is power." It is nothing of the sort! Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action and directed to a definite end.

The only limitation is that which one sets up in one's own mind.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are.

Dwarfs can often do the work of giants when they are transformed by the almost magic power of great mental concentration. But giants will only do the work of dwarfs when they lack this power.

We foolishly believe that our own limitations are the proper measure of limitations.

Seize any opportunity or anything that looks like opportunity.

considering that alternative outcomes could have taken place, that the world could have been different, is the core of probabilistic thinking.

what is made to fly will not do well trapped on the ground

they may never become noticeable.

there is a disproportionate payoff from the unknown, since you typically have little to lose and plenty to gain from a rare event.

he who does not have a past has no future.6

Uncertainty did occasionally pay off there.

the alternative would have been inconceivable.

Remember that positive Black Swans have a necessary first step: you need to be exposed to them.

Likewise, seemingly uninteresting results that go unnoticed, can, years later turn out to be breakthroughs.

Put yourself in situations where favorable consequences are much larger than unfavorable ones.

When we look at risks in Extremistan, we don't look at evidence (evidence comes too late), we look at potential damage: never has the world been more prone to more damage; never.

Where is the role of optionality in this?

But possible future deviations from the course of the past are infinite.

the potential costs are much worse than the cumulative gains.

She discovered the wings she never knew she had.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed, they never dare to try. But I tell you, If music be the food of love, play on.