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Quotes About Potential

Show not what has been done, but what can be. How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths.
~ Umberto Eco
you must not worry if they do not yet exist, because that does not mean they will not exist later. And I say to you that God wishes them to be, and certainly they already are in His mind, even if my friend from Occam denies that ideas exist in such a way; and I do not say this because we can determine the divine nature but precisely because we cannot set any limit to it.
~ Umberto Eco
sá»± h?c h?i không ch? bao g?m hi?u bi?t Ä'i?u th?y ph?i hay có th? làm, mà còn bao g?m c? sá»± hi?u bi?t Ä'i?u th?y s? có kh? n?ng làm nhưng có l? không nên.
~ Umberto Eco
Anything was possible if the impossible was true.
~ Umberto Eco
C'è stato un tempo in cui ero tutto ambizione e smania di imparare, e giorno dopo giorno mi sentivo sconfortato per il fatto che madre natura in uno dei suoi momenti di clemenza non mi avesse stampato il marchio di quel genio che ogni tanto concede a qualcuno.
~ Umberto Eco
Ognuno nasce con un dono, tutto sta nello scoprirlo e nell'avere fortuna di vederlo apprezzato
~ Umberto Eco
the International Commission on Large Dams put the global potential of economically feasible projects at just over 8 PWh, roughly twice the current rate of annual generation.
~ Vaclav Smil
Without science, there would be no you; without you, the future would offer a much narrower prospect.
~ Val McDermid
If might have beens were kings and queens, then we'd have kingdoms all.
~ Val McDermid
Within each individual on this large and complicated world there lives an astounding potential for greatness.
~ Velma Wallis
there is no limit to one's ability—certainly not age—to accomplish in life what one must. Within each individual on this large and complicated world there lives an astounding potential of greatness.
~ Velma Wallis
In jedem menschlichen Wesen auf dieser weiten, komplizierten Welt ruht eine erstaunliche Anlage zur Größe. Doch nur selten haben diese verborgenen Gaben die Gelegenheit, sich zu entfalten. Manchmal ist es allein der Zufall des Schicksals.
~ Velma Wallis
This story told me that there is no limit to one's ability—certainly not age—to accomplish in life what one must. Within each individual on this large and complicated world there lives an astounding potential of greatness. Yet it is rare that these hidden gifts are brought to life unless by the chance of fate.
~ Velma Wallis
There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.
~ Victor Hugo
Are you afraid of the good you might do?
~ Victor Hugo
Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.
~ Victor Hugo
les plus belles années d'une vie sont celles que l'on a pas encore vécues.
~ Victor Hugo
He had not lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand than the impossible, and what must be looked for is the unforeseen.
~ Victor Hugo
El futuro tiene muchos nombres. Para los débiles es lo inalcanzable. Para los temerosos, lo desconocido. Para los valientes es la oportunidad
~ Victor Hugo
With the exercise of a little care, the nettle could be made useful; it is neglected and it becomes hurtful. It is exterminated. How many men resemble the nettle! He added with a pause: Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.
~ Victor Hugo
No era la facultad de amar lo que le faltaba, sino la posibilidad.
~ Victor Hugo
With the exercise of a little care, the nettle could be made useful; it is neglected and it becomes hurtful. It is exterminated. How many men resemble the nettle! He added, after a pause: Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.
~ Victor Hugo
Police chiefs don't think a cat can possibly turn into a lion; and yet, it happens.
~ Victor Hugo
What is admirable in the clash of young minds is that no one can foresee the spark that sets off an explosion or predict what kind of explosion it will be.
~ Victor Hugo