Quotes About Potential

Tomorrow', she says, a little less than a promise, and a little more than a chance.

Fiecare persoana este o posibilitate. Sentimentalii incurabili simt cel mai acut asta, dar chiar si pentru altii, singurul mod de a nu se da batauti este sa vada fiecare persoana ca pe-o posibilitate.

Tomorrow. A little less than a promise, and a little more than a chance.

We say: Anything is possible. But, what we mean is: I hope good is possible.

Todas las personas somos una posibilidad. Los románticos empedernidos son quienes más cuenta se dan de ello; pero incluso para los demás, la única manera de seguir adelante es ver a cada persona como una posibilidad

There is nothing so heartening as a chance.

Cain wonders for the first time, whether a child is born with the man already inside him waiting to emerge; or if there is only blankness, a void inside ready to be filled with whatever might be placed there.

The hundred possibilities a situation contains may be more significant than the occurrence of any of them, and metaphor truer in the long run than fact.

We all thought Tony would be a force to be reckoned with when he grew up and we're still waiting.

Wanting creates the space in which our highest aspirations come into being.

the beauty of an art school: as long as you can pay the tuition, they will never, even in the gentlest way, suggest that you have no talent.

When you're young it's easy to believe that such a opportunity will come again, maybe even a better one.

I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.

This, she realized suddenly, was probably the best squadron command she would ever have—unless

When it's all said and done, I want to be able to say I got the most out of my potential. I don't want to look back, however many years from now, and say, 'I wonder if I would have worked a little harder. I wonder if I would have done this or done that, how things would have turned out.' I want to, when it's all said and done, be able to put my head on my pillow and say, 'I did everything I could do — good or bad.

The human body has limitations; the human spirit is boundless.

in an infinite universe, anything that could be imagined might somewhere exist.

This world, which has the potential to be Eden, is instead the hell before Hell. In our arrogance, we have made it so.

I'm no more a wonder than anyone. And that's what makes the world magical. Every baby's a seed of wonder - that gets watered or it doesn't.

Imagine that you are more than nothing. Evil made you, but you are no more evil than a child unborn. If you want, if you seek, if you hope, who is to say that your hope might not be answered?

Son, this is the United States of America. Some would say it's unconstitutional to try to prevent psychopaths from fulfilling their potential.

Every talent is unearned, however, and with it comes a solemn obligation to use it as fully and as wisely as possible.

Fact: No matter how smart and courageous and well-intentioned you are, there's always a chance that you would not become the person you envisioned yourself being, because your own mind or body could fail you.

New York just expects so much from a girl—acts like it can't stand even the idea of a wasted talent or opportunity. . . . Rome says: enjoy me. London: survive me. New York: gimme all you got. What a thrilling proposition! The chance to be "all that you might be." Such a thrill—until it becomes a burden.