Quotes About Potential

Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner that works and brings it out.

Našao je zemlju izlaze?eg sunca pa je pšeni?no zrno, koje je neplodno, bacakano vetrom, najzad naišlo na grudu zemlje koja ?e ga primiti da uhvati koren i da se razvije.

Impossible is not a fact, it's an opinion.

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

From the moment of birth, when the Stone Age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father, and their parents and their parents before them, have been. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities, and on the whole this enterprise is successful.

She knocked and waited, because when the door was opened from within, it had the potential to lead someplace quite different.

You don't know yet what you're capable of, but I'm willing to bet it's extraordinary.

Was there another life she was meant to be living? At times she felt a keen certainty that there was ? a phantom life, taunting her from just out of reach. A sense would come over her while she was drawing or walking, and once while she was dancing slow and close with Kaz, that she was supposed to be doing something else with her hands, with her legs, with her body. Something else. Something else. Something else.

Magic?" Akiva had asked. "What bird does this come from, that its bone are made of magic?" "Oh, it's not magic. The wishes don't really come true." "Then why do it?" She shrugged. "Hope? Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.

An alien landing would unify the world, just like in a science fiction movie. But "angels" had the potential to splinter humanity into a thousand sharp shards.

They marked his first consideration that there might be other ways of living than the one he knew. Better, sweeter ways.

well, Mik doesn't sigh or lean, and his eyes are fully open like something awesome might happen at any time

In one vital way, though, she was different. She would never again allow weakness or softness, fear or ineptitude to hold her frozen. She hadn't known yet what she was capable of.

Ve. Ve, y a ver qué hay en ti.

Anything in life is possible if you make it happen.

You be surprised what a person got in them to do when the time come.

The fact that we believe we are such narrow limited energy already begins to suffocate us. We are suffocating because we have a suffocating attitude.

I believe each incoming freshman [in college] must be started at once on his own research project if we are to preserve his secret dream of greatness and make it come true.

I believe that each young person is different from any other who has ever lived, as different as his fingerprints: that he could bring to the world a wonderful and special way of solving unsolved problems, that in his special way, he can be great.

You're seventeen," Magnus said. "You can't have wasted a life you've barely lived.

There was a man who was worthless, and knew he was worthless, and yet however far down he tried to sink his soul, there was always some part of him capable of great action.

Because the world isn't divided into the special and the ordinary. Everyone has the potential to be extraordinary. As long as you have a soul and free will, you can be anything, do anything, choose anything.

When people die, our dreams of what they could be die with them. Even if ours is the hand that ends them.

I mean, is there a chance for me? To have another life after this, a better one?