Quotes About Potential

Às vezes a gente se imagina incompleto e é apenas jovem.

When you're young, all evolution lies before you, every road is open to you, and at the same time you can enjoy the fact of being there on the rock, flat mollusk-pulp, damp and happy.

Os futuros não realizados são apenas ramos do passado: ramos secos.

Los futuros no realizados son sólo ramas del pasado: ramas secas.

The one contains what is accepted as necessary when it is not yet so; the others, what is imagined as possible and, a moment later, is possible no longer.

Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be....

Aquella mañana en Dorotea sentí que no había bien que no pudiera esperar de la vida. En los años siguientes mis ojos volvieron a contemplar las extensiones del desierto y las rutas de las caravanas; pero ahora sé que éste es solo uno de los tantos caminos que se me abrían aquella mañana en Dorotea. ( Ciudad: Dorotea)

Alte zile decât astea ale noastre nu sunt, pân? o s? intr?m în mormânt,[...]. De mi-o fi dat s? nu le irosesc, s? nu irosesc nimic din ce sunt ?i din ce-a? putea fi!

When you're young, all evolution lies before you, every road is open to you, and at the same time you can enjoy the fact of being there on the rock, flat mollusc-pulp, damp and happy.

Every animal, every object, every relationship took on beneficial or malign powers that came to be called magical powers but should, rather, have been called narrative powers, potentialities contained in the world, in its ability to link itself to other worlds on the plane of discourse.

Leer es ir al encuentro de algo que está a punto de ser y aún nadie sabe qué será.

é un modo comodo di vivere quello di credersi grande di una grandezza latente.

It is comfortable to live in the belief that you are great, though your greatness is latent.

As long as you hold an improved self-image as a future possibility, you simultaneously hold the image of yourself as inadequate and incomplete. You are, in effect, a house divided.

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.

You are the opportunity to make a difference!

I think that anybody that stays in school, gets good grades, pays the price, I think we are wealthy enough in the public and the private sector in America to make sure that every child in America that wants to continue their education, they should be able to do that.

You know, you don't have to be white to be president of anything. Even of the United States. I could be president! Black as I am! And if you white and poor, you don't have to be rich to get to be president either.

In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.

In whatever it is that I do, I find myself drawn to infinite possibility, that sense of potential.

It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

We are not powerless. We have tremendous potential for good or ill. How we choose to use that power is up to us; but first we must choose to use it. We're told every day, You can't change the world. But the world is changing every day. Only question is who's doing it? You or somebody else?