Quotes About Potential

There is nothing in the world common to man, that man cannot do.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd.

Man, as man, has never realized himself. The greater part of him, his potential being, has always been submerged. What is history if not the endless story of his repeated failures?

The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.

If a man can shoot 10 birdies, there's no reason why he can't shoot 18. Why can't you birdie every hole on the course?

Every man, woman and child holds the possibility of physical perfection; it rests with each of us to attain it by personal understanding and effort.

Man's body is faulty, his mind untrustworthy, but his imagination has made him remarkable.

We presuppose two things: that there is yet to be learned infinitely more than is now known, and that man can learn it.

Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.

Men are angels born without wings, nothing could be nicer than to be born without wings and to make them grow.

If God wanted man to become a spacefaring species, he would have given man a moon.

Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world.

The world is full of power and energy and a person can go far by just skimming off a tiny bit of it.

No matter how smart we get, there is always this deep irrational part that makes us potential hosts for self-replicating information.

Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.

See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places," Raven says.

The Deliverator's car has enough potential energy packed into its batteries to fire a pound of bacon into the Asteroid Belt.

If wolves could become poodles in a few thousand years, think what humans could turn into, if there was a ne

He stares at the crowd, five thousand potential market shares, young people with funkiness on their minds.

I created opportunities, in case we might need them.

He was an unformed block, from which he was now laboring, literally, to sculpt a Renaissance Man. Reader, that was an attractive thing to watch.

Yet I cannot be magnificent unless there is something to choose from. Some part of Me must be less than magnificent for Me to choose the part of Me which is magnificent.

The more you are, the more you can become, and the more you can become, the more you can yet be.