Quotes About Potential

What we do here is physiologically impossible. So we must train the body to accept the impossible, and then it will become possible.

Because of an imaginary voice, Nicholas had become a whole person; rather than the partial person he had been in Berkeley. If he had remained in Berkeley he would have lived and died a partial person, never knowing completeness.

I almost passed the IQ test," he said in a low, shaky voice.

How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.

They would see the true image of what human beings always could be, once they had come into their inheritance. The Dust pouring down from the stars had found a living home again, and these children-no-longer-children, saturated with love, were the cause of it all.

Ze zijn ingetogen in hun kleding, en hebben de houding van panters. Jij kunt dat. Je doet het al, alleen weet je het niet. - Farder Coram tegen Lyra

Los científicos coinciden en que tan solo alcanzamos el diez por ciento de nuestro potencial humano. En cambio, cuando establecemos el centro de nuestras actividades en el silencio, nuestro potencial se vuelve ilimitado.

Life is not so simple. There are many futures. The life of a single person is like a great tree: every branch, every twig, every leaf is a possible future.

Forgiveness doesn't mean that we deny the hurt, forget that it happened, or recuse the offender of responsibility or accountability; it means that we're not going to destroy our potential, to harm us anymore. At its core, forgiveness is a choice to give up our role as a victim.

you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy and angry all of the days of your life."9

But any gathering of eight human beings has an astounding potential for complication.

Say what you want about Hitler, but he trained killers. You train kids in their early years and you can do anything you want with that child. —Sparky Anderson, manager of the Detroit Tigers,        trying to explain why he prefers younger ballplayers

Moments into minutes. Minutes into hours. Hours into days. Days into years. Years into possibility. This will linger.

You could be the leaf that never falls from the tree you could be the sun that never leaves the sky this might be the happy ending without the ending this might be a reason to try

Little less than a promise, and a little more than a chance.

A sound waiting to be a word.

this might be the happy ending without the ending

If you play your cards right, the next generation will have so much more than you did.

Every person is a possibility. The hopeless romantics feel it most acutely, but even for others, the only way to keep going is to see every person as a possibility.

And I, who have never thought in terms of a life, think to myself that I could make a life out of this.

We all have the potential to commit the crime. We chose not to. Every single day, we chose not to. I am no different

Yes, our situations are different. But we're both human, and that means we both have the nearly infinite potential to mess things up, and need a nearly infinite amount of patience and grace in order to be the people we should be.

When a first date really works, it works like this: You feel the thrill of opening to the first page of a book. And you know -instinctively, you know- it's going to be a very long book.

We are who we are, I said. And we'll be who we'll be. A book can make us feel that, but it can't invent that. It's already inside us.