Quotes About Potential

We all have tremendous potential and yet we stay closed in a very small, fearful world, based on wanting to avoid the unpleasant, the painful, the insecure, the unpredictable. There is vast, limitless richness and wonder we could experience if we fully accustomed our nervous systems to the open-ended, uncertain reality of how things are.

I take refuge in the Buddha," that means I take refuge in the courage and the potential of fearlessness, of removing all the armor that covers this awakeness of mine. I am awake; I will spend my life taking this armor off. Nobody else can take it off because nobody else knows where all the little locks are, nobody else knows where it's sewed up tight, where it's going to take a lot of work to get that particular iron thread untied.

I hold my teachers, beginning with Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, so dear to me because of how they've been able to show me—and model for me—my own potential. It's like meeting a part of yourself that you didn't even know was there.

Those who go in bliss naturally includes the buddhas, but it also refers to our own potential. We, too, can free ourselves from the hopes and fears of self-centeredness. The bliss of perceiving reality without these limitations is our birthright. Thus Shantideva doesn't bow down to something outside himself, but to his own capacity for enlightenment.

The Buddha taught that all beings have the potential to wake up completely, and that all of us will eventually get there. He and many other wise people in this world have given us tools for taking whatever occurs in our lives and using it to cultivate our basic goodness and become more and more able to be there for others. Whatever the future brings—welcome or unwelcome—we can use on our path of awakening. To me, this attitude is the best kind of optimism.

You are offered the potential of opening up into the as-yet unknown, the much bigger world where there are smells you've never smelled, there are sights you've never seen, and there are sounds you've never heard. What you could experience is so much vaster than what you currently experience. Let's go in that direction. TS:

in being steadfast with our bodies, our emotions, our thoughts. We stay with our own little plot of earth and trust that it can be cultivated, that cultivation will bring it to its full potential. Even though it's full of rocks and the soil is dry, we begin to plow this plot with patience. We let the process evolve naturally.

There is a difference between being a political force, or a political apparent force or a potential force, and between a real discourse or a real argument.

The purpose of truly transcendent art is to express something you are not yet, but something that you can become.

I believe I can do things people think are impossible.

Art respects the masses, by standing up to them for what they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.

I do not claim to have perfected an art but to have commenced one, the limits of which it is not possible at present exactly to ascertain.

We're all works of art in progress.

Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure.

All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art.

My work is all about creating new paths for thinking about the possibilities inherent in all art; another world is possible!

You are only a young talent, but we don't know how old your soul is.

Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing.

An artist's career always begins tomorrow

The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

I always wanted to be an artist, I just didn't know that you could be, or how you could be. I went to an art high school but they never even took me to a gallery.

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about.

In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.