Quotes About Potential

The British security industry has the capacity to be a world leader and it should be our shared objective to achieve this.

I was the kid who was sat in his room, trying to move objects across the room with my eyes or my mind.

I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.

A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.

It will be good fun finding out what sport baby's good at; perhaps it will be something obscure. My parents were fantastic at taking me to training sessions and letting me try lots of different sports, so I want to do the same.

It's obvious we can't all be a Gully Foyle, but most of us energize at such a low level, so far short of our real capabilities, we could all be more, do more.

Some of the best opportunities in the world are the most obvious ones.

Genomics is a new idea. Like the PC, it's not obvious at first that anyone would want one. It's like, 'Hey, we've already got one genome, why do we need more?'

People have a lot of control over their ability to rise to the occasion and to show their best or their aspirational selves.

Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.

If men could move out of infancy at half a mile an hour and get up to eighteen thousand miles an hour in one lifetime, well, who was to assume that the walls of the universe were safe from future men?

Was the conquest of space then a potential chariot of Satan, the unique and grand avenue for the new totalitarian?

Deep within the individual is a vast reservoir of untapped power awaiting to be used. no person can have the use of all this potential until he learns to know his or her own self. the trouble with many people is that they got through life thinking and writing themselves off as ordinary commonplace persons. having no proper belief in themselves they live aimless and erratic lives largely because they never realize what their lives really can be or what they can become

Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.

What you can image, you will be, in the long run.

Knock the T off the word can't. You can do anything—ANYTHING—if you think you can!

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

what you can image you can be.

Let the challenge of your ambitions, of your aspirations, rouse your slumbering and often unused powers into action.

Positive thinking looks upon weak places in people as challenging opportunities.

So many things are possible as long as you don't know they're impossible.

And remember, also...that many places you would like to see are just off the map and many things you want to know are just out of sight or a little beyond your reach. But someday you'll reach them all, for what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.

And, as you've discovered, so many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.

and, most of all, of how much could be accomplished with just a little thought.