Quotes About Potential

The fear of not living is a deep, abiding dread of watching your own potential decompose into irredeemable disappointment when should be gets crushed by what it is.

The fear of not living is a deep, abiding dread of watching your own potential decompose into irredeemable disappointment when "should be" gets crushed by what is. Sometimes I think it would be easier to die than to face that, because "what could have been" is much more highly regarded than "what should have been." Dead kids are put on pedestals, but mentally ill kids get hidden under the rug.

I suspected you had a spark in you, but never dreamed it would be such an inferno!

If I'm a shining star, let's hope I don't blow up.

You can be anyone you want to be now, Unwind (pg. 80)

But the feeling is there, like a wind at your back on the edge of a cliff, gently urging you. What if... What if...

Mom could have been a great sniper if she had chosen that line of work.

He could grow it into any style he chose. Be anyone he wanted to be. Wasn't that the greatest perk of a perfect world? That there were no limits to what a person could do or become? Anyone in the world could be anything they imagined. Too bad that imagination had atrophied.

He should have just gone on with his unremarkable life — because then, maybe, just maybe, he might have had the chance to do something remarkable with it in time.

I was never going to amount to much anyway, but now, statistically speaking, there's a better chance that some part of me will go on to greatness somewhere in the world. I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

Don't you see, Lev? you can save yourself. You can be anyone you want to be now.

You can be anyone you want to be now...

Hay gente ordinaria que hace cosas extraordinarias

Mida ambitsioossem ja peenem on hing, seda enam ta unelmad eemalduvad võimalikkusest.

to fight for each minute is to fight for what is possible within yourself, so that your life and your death will not be like theirs.

Potential, I said, doesn't mean a thing. You've got to do it. Almost every baby in a crib has more potential than I have.

We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting.

Potential," I said, "doesn't mean a thing. You've got to do it. Almost every baby in a crib has more potential than I have.

I was gifted, am gifted. Sometimes I looked at my hands and realized that I could have been a great pianist or something. But what have my hands done? Scratched my balls, written checks, tied shoes, pushed toilet levers, etc. I have wasted my hands. And my mind.

I'm one of those who doesn't think there is much difference between an atomic scientist and a man who cleans the crappers except for the luck of the draw - parents with enough money to point you toward a more generous death. of course, some come through brilliantly, but there are thousands, millions of others, bottled up, kept from even the most minute chance to realize their potential.

Fast jeder kommt als Genie auf die Welt und wird als Idiot begraben.

Curtis was just a chip off old Franky only she had much better legs. Poor Franky didn't have any legs but he had a wonderful brain. In some other country he would have made

meanwhile I look at young girls stems flowers of chance. there must be a way. surely there must be a way that we have not yet though of. who put this brain inside of me? it cries it demands it says that there is a chance. it will not say no.

Por muy pequeño que sea un hombre, siempre descubrirá que puede serlo más.