Quotes About Potential

When we go back as far as possible to the origins we find a human nature which already contains everything which it later on produces out of itself.

A star's shine comes from the inside. Its there inside you now,you just have to beileve in yourself.

This is the best he can hope for, unless. There is always unless.

You have the potential for becoming air; as still, as necessary, just there.

Humans only can reveal their true potential during an absolutely critical situation.

Quando si diventa adulti, uno finisce per rendersi conto che ha un tetto sulla testa, ovvero un limite. Man mano che passano gli anni, la testa s'avvicina al tetto, e uno vede chiaramente anche le macchie e la sporcizia. Forse non riuscite ancora a comprendere questi nostri sentimenti. Perciò al momento le vostre potenzialità sono illimitate. Perché sopra di voi s'estende il cielo infinito […]

Nothing ever happens here. But when it does, it happens at the speed of lightning. You can change the world in a day. It might take forty-two years for that day to come, but when it does…

How readily and thinly we procure these fictional selves, deceiving the world and what we might have become if only we hadn't got in the way, if only we had waited to see what might have become of us.

Because you're like a story that hasn't happened yet. Because I want to see what you will do. I want to be part of the unfolding of the tale.

You have only seen the least of what I can do.

Everything was strange and beautiful and swollen with possibilities.

you're like a story that hasn't happened yet. Because I want to see what you will do. I want to be part of the unfolding of the tale.

You're like a story that hasn't happened yet.

You've only seen the least of what I can do.

When I look at her, I am filled with the same hate and fear that paralyzed me throughout my childhood. And yet, there is fresh madness in her yellow eyes. She is not the same as she was when I saw her last. And disturbingly, I see myself in her. Resentful, and trapped, and full of thwarted desire. The worst parts of me, and all my worst potential.

Because you're like a story that hasn't happened yet. Because I want to see what you will do. I want to be part of the unfolding of the tale.

Because you're like a story that hasn't happened yet.

Though Charlie didn't do great in school and had been long ago sorted into the group of kids who were never going to college, she read a lot and she paid attention. She was smart.

could come of it.

Each of us carries a sleeping tiger inside, and we can't predict when that cat will wake, stretch, and sharpen its claws.

It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive.

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist there can only be promise of the coming woman.

At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species needs most of all, right now, is simply a future.

We go into rural communities, and all we do — like has been done in this room [at TED] — is create the space. When these girls sit … you unlock great leaders.