Quotes About Potential

Africa, in particular, has barely begun to exploit its renewable energy potential. Energy analysts say that solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, and biomass sources could more than supply the energy needs of every continent. The key is providing a favorable playing field, and that means financial aid, technology transfer, and training programs to assist developing nations, like the ones being advanced by the EU/AU partnership.

Hey, this is it—right now!—the time when you find out who you are and what you can do. And how will you ever know if you don't try new stuff?

I think of the flower in the bud: huddled, compressed, dark. Yet somehow it feels the night, knows moon from sun. It waits...waits.

Those interested in excellent, discomfort-inducing horror should read the first four chapters of The Beetle. Those interested in watching potential be wasted should continue beyond that.

I mean, who are you if you can't make it up? Especially people like you and me. Are we just supposed to stay the shitheads our parents and high schools sent out into the world, the ones our classmates assumed would do nothing with our lives?

I completely believe that I will produce my best work and my best work will come in my thirties.

It's human nature to work on ourselves, to get better in mind, body, and spirit, so there's nothing wrong with trying to live life to your fullest potential.

School visits are something I do fairly often: I always say to the students that somebody has got to end up with the interesting careers, so why not them?

My dad had even hired an accompanist to play for me on a piano. But he had never pushed me to music because I don't think he wanted me to be hurt as much as he was if it didn't work.

What you can become is the miracle you were born to be through the work that you do.

I feel like I haven't done my best work yet.

Men are not really born either hopelessly idle, or preternaturally industrious. They may move in one direction or the other as will or circumstances dictate, but it is open to any man to work.

If you are unknown, you can work better! Deserted soils of the mountains create the most beautiful flowers!

You just become, like a flower becomes a fruit. It's all built in, within you. Allow it to work out.

Original work has no floor and no ceiling. You can reach essentially zero readers or millions.

In book subjects a student can only do a student's work. All that can be measured is how well he learns, rather than how well he performs. All he can show is promise.

The greatness of work is inside man.

I feel my greatest work is yet to come.

Each man has an aptitude born with him. Do your work.

I really want to work with Rufus Wainwright. Michael Stipe from R.E.M. I would love to work with Kanye West.

It's okay to be kind of looking for what you want and trying out all kinds of different ideas and different course work, etc.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

If you're not uncomfortable in your work as a leader, it's almost certain you're not reaching your potential as a leader.

James Edward Oliver might have been one of the great mathematicians of his time had he not been absolutely wanting in the power of continuous work.