Quotes About Potential

Ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent (How often the greatest talents are shrouded in obscurity)

The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.

I am Nothing. He liked the name. It did not make him feel worthless; on the contrary, he began to think of himself as a blank slate upon which anything could be written. The words inscribed on his soul were up to him.

The future promise of any nation can be directly measured by the present prospects of its youth.

If you must doubt something, doubt your limits!

On the contrary, I believe it doesn't make much sense to say that one man is worth more than another. One man can be stronger than another but less wise. Or more educated but not so brave. Or more generous but also more stupid. So his value depends on what you want from him; a man can be very good at his job, and worthless if you set him to do some other job.

If you have faith the size of the smallest seed, nothing will be impossible for you.

This may only be Act One!

The unknowns wasn't full of terrors, it was full of undiscovered advantages. Better to run toward something than from something.

Shane sat like a statue if a statue wore headphones and radiated angry coiled tension that made hair stand up on a person's arms. She felt like she was sitting next to an unexploded bomb, and given all of the physics she'd had, she understood what that meant. Talk about potential energy.

Anything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.'" "Stupid

Things happen. Things that physics and math and crap that gets measured in a lab can't explain. People aren't just laws and rules, Claire. They're... sparks. Sparks of something beautiful and huge. And some sparks glow brighter

Because when your potential competition was some ancient, occasionally suave dude who dressed in velvet and still looked twenty-something, nothing could make you feel a lot better.

The willingness to consider possibility requires a tolerance of uncertainty.

Imagination was so powerful that you had to be careful because you could imagine things into existence that you might regret.

The world is hat we make it, and our future is ours to shape.

a wasted opportunity wasn't just a missed chance, but was a wound to your future. Miss too many opportunities, thus sustaining too many wounds, and you wouldn't have a future at all.

Her imagination was such that she could hear the song of the bird when it was still but a yolk in an egg.

Winny had learned from books... you had to be tested in life to discover who you were and what you were capable of doing. Hopeless sissy, noble warrior, maniac - he could be anything, and he wouldn't know until he was tested. One thing he could never be was Santa Claus. Nobody could be Santa Claus. Santa Claus wasn't real like the FedEx guy.

she loves the potentiality and the reality of each friend.

I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.

And because we have been given thought, will, and imagination, albeit on a human scale, we too have this power to create.

When I function in only one mode or the other, I am denying half myself, half my potential.

Every hour in every life contains such often-unrecognized potential to affect the world that the great days for which we, in our dissatisfaction, so often yearn are already with us; all great days and thrilling possibilities are combined always in this momentous day.