Quotes About Potential

He's got big dreams like you can't believe

The question for each man is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence, and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.

the surly orphan of American politics Ã¢â'¬Â¦ the grim joker in the deck, whose nightrider candidacy [is] a rough approximation of the potential for an American fascism." People

It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not.

Meinst du, es gäbe nichts außer dem, was du dir vorstellen kannst?

His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and beautiful swan. To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg.

His own image… was no longer the reflection of a clumsy, dirty, gray bird, ugly and offensive. He himself was a swan! Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.

It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg!

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

Very often, in the visual arts, if you take the first work of a visual artist, it already includes almost everything they do later.

True success consists not in becoming the person you dreamed of being when you were young, but in becoming the person you were meant to be, the person you are capable of being when you are at your best.

Every instance of forgiveness and release is a like a cosmic galaxy of potential being birthed through love.

How many evenings did I stand in the middle of grocery store aisle, paralyzed with fear and indecision? It's not just the time I regret; it's the loss of who I might have been if I wasn't so consumed. It's who I might have loved, how I might have lived, what I might have accomplished. I might have been a force to be reckoned with.

I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.

People get smarter. The human brain has a potential for development. Some day it will grow big enough so that everybody will see and understand the truth, and then we won't act like a bunch of sheep, and then that wall separates the two sides of us will crumble, just like the wall of Jericho.

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

We underestimated human potential, both the strength of man's intellect and the weakness of his flesh, and therefore his receptivity to satanic inspiration -- but ultimately he is our creature, and so what we've really underestimated is our own creativity. What we made has turned out to be more than what we thought we had made. So ultimately in our failure there is a compliment to us: our creativity is greater than ourselves!

I don't know how many good books I still have in me I hope there are another four or five.

I think comics have far more potential than a lot of people realize.

You do not pursue potential conflict unless you hold power over your foe.

If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset.

Helen and I like to think of two people in a conscious love relationship as companion stars. Each person is a unique individual ablaze with potential. One is just as important as the other, and each has a unique and equally valid view of the universe. Yet, together, they form a greater whole, kept connected by the pull of mutual love and respect. They mirror the interconnected universe.     New

To be born means being compelled to choose an era, a place, a life. To exist here, now, means to lost the possibility of being countless other potential selves.. Yet once being born there is no turning back. And I think that's exactly why the fantasy worlds of cartoon movies so strongly represent our hopes and yearnings. They illustrate a world of lost possibilities for us.