Quotes About Potential

The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of their instrument.

Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things.

We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It's just beginning. When I think of the possibilities, it makes me smile.

I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.

Never say never - you don't know what's going to happen in the future.

If I'd had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

The kids I talk to are convinced their generation will make the best music. And the greatest artists have yet to be discovered. I walk around with that thought every day.

I believe that there are many interesting projects that are potentially possible for me other than game music, and therefore in my mind there are several things that are being contemplated.

I must play the instrument I've got.

And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been

Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.

Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual.

The unique nature about the influenza virus is its great potential for changes, for mutation.

Nature of man is not what he was born as, but what he is born for.

In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world.

A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.

There is incredible generosity in the potentialities of Nature. We only have to discover how to utilize them.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

I am inclined by nature to be optimistic about the capacity of a person to rise higher than he or she has thought possible once interest and ambition are aroused.

Nothing is impossible to us, except of course, that which is contrary to the laws of nature and the Universe.

Sometimes it seems to me that I am capable of absolutely nothing, but that nature through me can accomplish a great deal.

Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent talents, in order to be content and complete.

Consciousness is the basis of all life and the field of all possibilities. Its nature is to expand and unfold its full potential. The impulse to evolve is thus inherent in the very nature of life.

The ideal we serve and strive to attain could never be evolved from us were it not potentially involved in our nature.