Quotes About Potential

And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place - even the butterfly. But humanity never gets beyond the caterpillar stage -it rots in the chrysalis, it never will have wings.It is anti-creation, like monkeys and baboons.

She was not herself--she was not anything. She was something that is going to be--soon--soon--very soon. But as yet, she was only imminent.

The world is supposed to be full of possibilities, but they narrow down to pretty few in most personal experience.

We are gods in the chrysalis.

Compared to what we ought to be," said the famous Professor William James of Harvard, "compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses powers of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

En comparación con lo que deberíamos ser -decía el famoso profesor William James, de la Universidad de Harvard-, sólo estamos despiertos a medias. Sólo empleamos una pequeña parte de nuestros recursos físicos y mentales. En términos generales, el individuo vive así muy dentro de sus límites Posee cualidades de diversas especies que habitualmente no usa.

Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.

With pulleys and ropes and time to plan one could move anything. Now that she thought of it, why couldn't anyone do anything he or she wished, given the tools and the time.

Now that she thought of it, why couldn't anyone do anything he or she wished, given the tools and the time?

The only service you can render God is to give expression to what he is trying to give the world, through you. The only service you can render God is to make the very most of yourself in order that God may live in you to the utmost of your possibilities.

There is a genius in every man and woman, waiting to be brought forth.

Do not wait for an opportunity to be all that you want to be.

A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls.

The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung.

Of all sad words, of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'It might have been.' Let's add this thought, unto this verse: 'It might have been a great deal worse.

Soy una infinidad de cosas ya cumplidas y una inmensidad de cosas por cumplir.

I am an acme of things accomplish'd, and I an encloser of things to be.

Poets to come! orators, singers, musicians to come! Not to-day is to justify me and answer what I am for, But you, a new brood, native, athletic, continental, greater than before known, Arouse! for you must justify me. I myself but write one or two indicative words for the future, I but advance a moment only to wheel and hurry back in the darkness.

I am larger, better than I thought, / I did not know I held so much goodness

Aku mencintaimu apa adanya, tetapi aku lebih mencintaimu untuk sesuatu yang akan engkau lakukan. (Carl Sandburg)

Can you become The hope I need? Can you help me be More than it is written in my future Or past? Is there another me to find?

Leonardo had almost no schooling and could barely read Latin or do long division. His genius was of the type we can understand, even take lessons from. It was based on skills we can aspire to improve in ourselves, such as curiosity and intense observation. He had an imagination so excitable that it flirted with the edges of fantasy, which is also something we can try to preserve in ourselves and indulge in our children.

Much of the attention paid to CRISPR these days involves its potential to make inheritable (germline) edits in humans that will be passed along to all the cells of all of our future descendants and have the potential to alter our species. These edits are done in reproductive cells or early-stage embryos. This is what occurred with the CRISPR baby twins in China in 2018, and it is the controversial topic that I will discuss later in this book.