Quotes About Potential

I really felt like we were gonna be The Rolling Stones of heavy metal, and we could have been.

As a child, I was rather active for my age. Sensing something special about me, my father told me that I had the vision to accomplish great things in life. He always encouraged me to do what I wanted to do - and this has stood me in good stead.

I've always been a late bloomer, so I never feel like, 'Oh, I'm gettin' older; I guess everything is gonna stop.' I'm the opposite: 'Oh, I'm just getting started.'

I think if I ever stopped pushing myself, I would revert quickly to quite repetitive, restrictive behaviour. But in pushing myself and concentrating on what I can do, I think I can contribute to society. And that gives me the desire to keep pushing, to see what I'm capable of. The thing to do is not to stop.

It seems like the opportunity just increases exponentially. There doesn't seem to be much stopping.

I think I have the capability to make music different from what I have already released. There are ghazals and other songs that I can create. There is no stopping me though.

A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.

I believe that nothing stops a bullet like opportunity.

Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.

The universe hands you opportunities for a while, and if you don't take them, the universe says to itself, 'Oh I see, this person doesn't like opportunities' and stops giving them to you.

We have a big opportunity in China. We think the number of stores here can rival the number in North America.

We have a lot of raw talent hidden in this country capable of taking on the world dance stage by storm.

We're at maybe 1% of what is possible. Despite the faster change, we're still moving slow relative to the opportunities we have. I think a lot of that is because of the negativity... Every story I read is Google vs someone else. That's boring. We should be focusing on building the things that don't exist.

You don't just have a story - you're a story in the making, and you never know what the next chapter's going to be. That's what makes it exciting.

I have a special place in my heart for the Straight Edge Society. Never reached its full potential.

I'm not a full-fledged producer, but I can be one if I want to really spend my time on straight being a producer.

From United's point of view, it is always difficult to tell just when a young footballer is going to mature into a first-class professional ready to play at the highest level, but the story of how Pogba slipped away from United has more than one strand to it.

The strange thing about the Olympics is that delivering on your potential is always quite difficult.

With political will and strategic initiatives, we can prevent more and more of our global neighbors from falling into the abyss of poverty and instead give future generations the opportunities they need to rise to their fullest potential.

I should have got the chance which I felt would put us over and we might have crossed the bar in my opinion at high tide.

Can we do better?

What you are to be, you are now becoming. —RUSSEL LESTER SNYDER, artist

And I believe that if we can care about whether or not our neighbor has a good job or access to affordable health care for their children, and we move to implement the policies that can improve these situations, we will unleash vast amounts of human potential and recapture the American spirit.

Believe this: Everything you need to be great is already inside you. All your ambitions and secrets, your darkest dreams . . . they're waiting for you to just let go.