Quotes About Potential

We are creators, and yet we naively play the role of 'the created.' We see ourselves as helpless sheep buffeted around by the God who made us. We kneel like frightened children, begging for help, for forgiveness, for good luck. But once we realize that we are truly created in the Creator's image, we will start to understand that we, too, must be Creators. When we understand this fact, the doors will burst wide open for human potential.

Every drill instructor knows that leadership is something to be cultivated and that virtually every recruit has the potential.

By emphasizing its screening procedures, instead of its training, management rarely experiences that pleasant surprise of watching a leader emerge from an unlikely recruit.

People are what they can do and what they can't help.

Process transforms any journey into a series of small steps, taken one by one, to reach any goal. Process transcends time, teaches patience, rests on a solid foundation of careful preparation, and embodies trust in our unfolding potential.

Bakat harus dilatih, bukan hanya dilahirkan.

Reason has survival value, but when overused at the expense of our intuition, feeling, and spirit, reason cuts us off from discovering our full potential.

The seed of God is in us: Pear seeds grow into pear trees; Hazel seeds into hazel trees; And God seeds into God. —Meister Eckehart

What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen. HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Energy follows thought; no matter how hard we work or how much we know, we tend to rise to our assumed limits, and no higher.

Children bring chaos and clutter and an infinite potential for the future

Few events in a human being's life—at least a male human being's life—are as free, as exuberant, as infinitely expansive and filled with potential as the first day of summer when one is an eleven-year-old boy. The summer lies ahead like a great banquet and the days are filled with rich, slow time in which to enjoy each course.

America, he thought, and not for the first time, is a nation with huge dreams and not infrequently the ability to realize them.

emptiness is a good sign; that it presages openness to a new level of awareness, new insights, new experiences.

America was a nation that refused to grow up. It was a perpetual baby, a vast, pink, fleshy toddler, now in possession of some terrible weapons it did not know how to hold properly, much less use properly.

There's a great expression in Twelve Step programs: Act as if. Act as if you're a writer. Sit down and begin. Act as if you might just create something beautiful, and by beautiful I mean something authentic and universal. Don't wait for anybody to tell you it's okay. Take that shimmer and show us our humanity. That's your job.

Although talent feels and looks predestined, in fact we have a good deal of control over what skills we develop, and we have more potential than we might ever presume to guess.

I'm giving you these comments because I have very high expectations and I know that you can reach them.

In a complex world where almost everyone has access to the same information, new value arises from the original synthesis, from putting ideas together in novel ways, and from smart questions that open up untapped potential.

They believe that anyone can do well in school with the right effort.

CI se ocupa sólo de una estrecha franja de habilidades lingüísticas y matemáticas, y que tener un elevado CI tal vez pueda predecir adecuadamente quién va a tener éxito en el aula o quién va a llegar a ser un buen profesor, pero no tiene nada que decir con respecto al camino que seguirá la persona una vez concluida su educación.

In a complex world where almost everyone has access to the same information, new value arises from the original synthesis, from putting ideas together in novel ways, and from smart questions that open up untapped potential. Creative insights entail joining elements in a useful, fresh way.

The single most important contribution education can make to a child's development is to help him toward a field where his talents best suit him, where he will be satisfied and competent.

The aptitudes you need to succeed start with intellectual horsepower—but people need emotional competence, too, to get the full potential of their talents.