Quotes About Potential

Use the art of reduction in every aspect of life. The Tao is all about simplicity, so the Tao process is about subtraction rather than addition. Remove obstacles and complexity to unleash the power of your natural capabilities and to fully express your vast potential.

All living things are looking to gain an advantage for themselves, but the process also imposes a burden on them. Generally speaking, the potential gain right in front of you causes you to forget the potential disaster right behind you. The two are connected." Chuang Tzu

A curse could also be likened to a long, evil arm stretched out from the past. It rests upon you with a dark, oppressive force that inhibits the full expression of your personality. You never feel completely free to be yourself. You sense that you have potential within you that is never fully developed. You always expect more of yourself than you are able to achieve.

But just then, for that fraction of time, it seems as though all things are possible. You can look across the limitations of your own life, and see that they are really nothing. In that moment when time stops, it is as though you know you could undertake any venture, complete it and come back to yourself, to find the world unchanged, and everything just as you left it a moment before. And it's as though knowing that everything is possible, suddenly nothing is necessary.

what I was born does not matter, only what I will make of myself, only what I will become.

It's as though, knowing that everything is possible, suddenly nothing is necessary.

But just then, for that fraction of time, it seems as though all things are possible. You can look across the limitations of your own life, and see that they are really nothing.

knowing that everything is possible, suddenly nothing is necessary.

A trained surgeon is also a potential killer, and an important bit of the training lies in accepting the fact. Your intent is entirely benign—or at least you hope so—but you are laying violent hands on someone, and you must be ruthless in order to do it effectively. And sometimes the person under your hands will die, and knowing that Ã¢â'¬Â¦ you do it anyway. I

Though I could wish your own limits went a bit further.

As though, knowing that everything is possible, suddenly nothing is necessary

Well, he is human. And perhaps he's not a monster yet.

INCIPIENT THUNDER

Not all who are born to it have the courage to take hold of the power that is their right.

I have always been a person with big aspirations, and I have always been confident I could take my opportunity, but you never know until you are out there.

When somebody says I wanted to be an astronaut my question is 'Did you apply?' And most people say no. And to me that's a self-elimination.

I like the fact that, as an actor, one day I can be the president. I can be an astronaut.

I don't see myself as disabled. There's nothing I can't do that able-bodied athletes can do.

In Africa, kids don't look at black athletes and say, 'They're different from us.' They look at them and say, 'That can be me.'

Sometimes with these big long guys who are really athletic, you don't know when they're going to stop growing.

I'd rather attempt something I'm not sure I can do.

There is so much talent in Australia.

I can't see an autobiography in my future. But who knows what might happen.

Being in the media is one of those things that so many guys say they'd like to do after they play. But you need to actually try a few different avenues to see if you like it - or if you'd be good at it.