Quotes About Potential

The great dividend is not necessarily outscoring an opponent. The guaranteed dividend is the complete peace of mind gained in knowing you did everything within your power, physically, mentally, and emotionally, to bring forth your full potential. – John Wooden, legendary UCLA basketball coach

This book is about whether schools and communities choose to squelch or nurture the flame of intelligence in their young people, and what happens when they choose to deny or embrace this national resource.

Over the years, we have discovered that when it comes to leaving no child behind, highly gifted students are the most likely to fall through the cracks in American classrooms.

Genius" means extraordinary intellectual ability, and people use the word in two different but related ways. In one sense, genius means high intellectual potential; in the other sense, genius means "creative ability of exceptionally high order as demonstrated by total achievement." This book uses both meanings.

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine... But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine...

Almost anything is possible with time

No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine.

mas, sabe, nem todos nascemos com os mesmos poderes... os mesmos modos...

And I thought how sad it was that, for all our sophisticated intellect, for all our noble aspirations, our aggressive behavior was not just similar in many ways to that of the chimpanzees – it was even worse. Worse because human beings have the potential to rise above their baser instincts, whereas chimpanzees probably do not.

Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our true potential.

if they worked together physically, and united spiritually, they could achieve anything.

There is something magical about young love, when you still think that the world is your oyster and you have your whole life ahead of you.

you interpret daily life according to your ideas of what is possible or not possible.

Without a sense of joy and inner accomplishment and development of potential, the personality will not only fail to flourish, but the inner self will refuse to maintain the physical structure adequately. This is extremely important. Superficial measures will not fool the inner self.

we human beings have the blessed creative capacity to do so much better. So why don't we?" 2.

A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?

I'm underrealized, Lula said. I gotta lot of untapped potential. Yesterday my horoscope said I gotta expand my horizons. You expand any more in that dress, and you'll get yourself arrested, Connie said. -- Twelve Sharp

No one expected a first year engineering student to build the perfect bridge.

You never know when Mr. Good Enough is gonna come along. I like to be ready.

This was the wonderful thing about strangers. They were big blank pieces of paper, you could draw whatever you liked on their impressionable surfaces.

Unvollendete, Meredith said. Unfinished

Of course I did, I was blank, anyone could fill me in. I waited to see who I would be, what they would create on my delicious vacancy.

There was power in me now, where there had been none.