Quotes About Potential

The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.

Everything is possible and everything is easy, if you put your mind to it.

We are a nation founded on a visionary and, at the time, radical idea. That visionary idea is that every human life has potential, and everyone has the right to fulfill his or her potential. That is what the Founders meant when they wrote "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

In Mastery author Robert Greene argues that we all have the ability to push the limits of human potential.

Grappling with America's trenchant refusal to open up the doors to quality education, Time announced that the "gap between what the Negro now achieves and what he might achieve indicates that he is the nation's most wasted resource."122

hopelessness can create an atmosphere where fixable problems become unfixable ones. We must work to resist this erosion in our belief in the potential of our own behavior and actions to change things.

I want to urge you to consider your own limitations not as obstacles but as opportunities for God to show his limitless power and unlimited love.

What ANY person in the world can learn, almost ALL people in the world can learn. If provided with proper learning conditions.

If life were one long grade school, women would be the undisputed rulers of the world.

Becoming is better than being." The fixed mindset does not allow people the luxury of becoming. They have to already be.

As growth-minded leaders, they start with a belief in human potential and development—both their own and other people's. Instead of using the company as a vehicle for their greatness, they use it as an engine of growth—for themselves, the employees, and the company as a whole.

Many of the most accomplished people of our era were considered by experts to have no future. Jackson Pollock, Marcel Proust, Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, Lucille Ball, and Charles Darwin were all thought to have little potential for their chosen fields.

Just because some people can do something with little or no training, it doesn't mean that others can't do it (and sometimes do it even better) with training. This is so important, because many, many people with the fixed mindset think that someone's early performance tells you all you need to know about their talent and their future.

there's a lot of intelligence out there being wasted by underestimating students' potential to develop.

person's true potential is unknown (and unknowable); that it's impossible to foresee what can be accomplished with years of passion, toil, and training. Did

Bloom concludes, "After forty years of intensive research on school learning in the United States as well as abroad, my major conclusion is: What any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn, if provided with the appropriate prior and current conditions of learning.

the view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life. It can determine whether you become the person you want to be and whether you accomplish the things you value.

Is there something you've always wanted to do but were afraid you weren't good at? Make a plan to do it.

There was a saying in the 1960s that went: "Becoming is better than being." The fixed mindset does not allow people the luxury of becoming. They have to already be.

There were two meanings to ability, not one: a fixed ability that needs to be proven, and a changeable ability that can be developed through learning

What are the consequences of thinking that your intelligence or personality is something you can develop, as opposed to something that is a fixed, deep-seated trait?

test scores and measures of achievement tell you where a student is, but they don't tell you where a student could end up.

When people believe their basic qualities can be developed, failures may still hurt, but failures don't define them. And if abilities can be expanded—if change and growth are possible—then there are still many paths to success.

People with the growth mindset know that it takes time for potential to flower.