Quotes About Potential

Have a vision. It is the ability to see the invisible. If you can see the invisible, you can achieve the impossible.

Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

We need to take advantage of the opportunity we have now to create a vision and become great.

You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision.

When you meet someone with a vision, you have to give them a shot and an opportunity to see what they can do.

How could you look at CM Punk and not think that he has the 'it' factor? I don't think I'm any great visionary or genius because I saw something in CM Punk; I think everyone else is a stupid schmuck for not seeing it in CM Punk.

That's why it's especially important to be the people we want to be now, to become more open and expansive while we're able.

That's why it's especially important to be the people we want to be now, to become more open and expansive while we're able to. A lot will be left dangling if we wait too long.

Therapy elicits odd reactions because, in a way, it's like pornography. Both involve a kind of nudity. Both have the potential to thrill. And both have millions of users, most of whom keep their use private. Though statisticians have attempted to quantify the number of people in therapy, their results are thought to be skewed because many people who go to therapy choose not to admit it.

Uncertainty, I'm starting to realize, doesn't mean the loss of hope—it means there's possibility. I don't know what will happen next—how potentially exciting!

Every fellow is really two men -- what he is and what he might be; and you're never absolutely sure which you're going to bury till he's dead.

It's been my experience that every man has in him the possibility of doing well some one thing, no matter how humble, and that there's some one, in some place, who wants that special thing done. The difference between a fellow who succeeds and one who fails is that the first gets out and chases after the man who needs him, and the second sits around waiting to be hunted up.

He doesn't need to know the path to adventure. He simply needs to recognize that it awaits.

But life was precarious and opportunities were never guaranteed.

Some of us have incredible potential, but we don't want to try anything bold because we don't want to fail. The easy choice: live in the relative safety of mediocrity because we think that's better than rejection.

The greatest potential for control the ends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.

The older I get the more I realize that the only thing a teacher has to go on is that rare spark in a boy's eye. And when you see that, Brian, you're an ass if you worry where it comes from. Whether it's an ode of Horace or an Icelandic saga or something that goes bang in a laboratory.

Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have

The artist is only a vehicle for already has been. Nothing can really be given a presence unless it already exists potentially.

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning.

I am not yet born O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity.

When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.

Infinite is a meaningless word: except – it states / The mind is capable of performing / an endless process of addition.