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Quotes About Potential

It was not very likely, of course, but then all kinds of things are possible, after all.
~ Imre Kertesz
Remember this, for it is as true and true gets: Your body is not a lemon. You are not a machine. The Creator is not a careless mechanic. Human female bodies have the same potential to give birth well as aardvarks, lions, rhinoceri, elephants, moose, and water buffalo. Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body.
~ Ina May Gaskin
Remember this, for it is as true as true gets: Your body is not a lemon. You are not a machine. The Creator is not a careless mechanic. Human female bodies have the same potential to give birth well as aardvarks, lions, rhinoceri, elephants, moose, and water buffalo. Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body.
~ Ina May Gaskin
What I love about stories the most is the power they have to teach us of possibilities that might not occur to us without them.
~ Ina May Gaskin
Las personas que piensan que no son capaces de hacer algo, no lo harán nunca, aunque tengan las aptitudes
~ Indira Gandhi
Even a caterpillar gets to turn into a butterfly. Am I ever gonna be pretty, Daddy?
~ Inglath Cooper
There are also many natural talents that are suppressed because their exercise would conflict with prevailing
~ Unknown
All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it's just not that good. It's trying to be good, it has potential, but it's not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer.
~ Ira Glass
focus on what could be rather than on what might have been.
~ Irene Hannon
Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.
~ Iris Chang
I've known for ages that men and women are animals by nature, I've also known that we have a sacred duty to make something different of ourselves, and I still believe that we have the strength and the chance to be more than we are. Through ourselves? Despite ourselves? Doesn't matter, I still believe…
~ Unknown
Talent is only the starting point.
~ Irving Berlin
After all, the world is still great.
~ Irving Stone
The tyranny that now exists is actual. That which may exist in the future is potential. If we are always to draw back from change with the thought that the change may be for the worse, then there is no hope at all of ever escaping injustice.
~ Isaac Asimov
There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older.
~ Isaac Hayes
My purpose on this planet is to live up to my potential, everything else just adds to the experience.
~ Unknown
To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me
~ Isaac Newton
Einen Menschen zu lieben, wie er ist, das ist leicht. Schwer ist es einen Menschen so zu lieben wie er nicht ist. In einem Menschen all das zu sehen, was er sein könnte, aber noch nicht sein kann.
~ Unknown
All anyone can see in a birthchart are tendencies that will become facts if he does not do something to alter them.
~ Unknown
You are a fine and talented woman, whose potential is yet to be realized given the love and support and luck we all need. Where you lost the will to fight for what is yours, where you gave away control of your life, is the mystery you are now unraveling. When you get it all back, hold on to it.
~ Unknown
Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me a chance to do my best.
~ Isak Dinesen
By asking for the impossible, obtain the best possible.
~ Italian proverb
Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches.
~ Italo Calvino