Quotes About Potential

the fact that you'll never know what sort of person you might have been if you'd read different stuff

You only get one album. You only get one single. You get one shot in music. But I have a million different dreams. Why can't I go out and try to achieve them all? Who are you to say I can't?

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I do not regard the limits of the past and present as the limits of humanity of the future

thinking is always thinking of a potential action.

The biological equipment of a man rigidly restricts the field in which he can serve.

and yet, you never knew wwhat you were capable of until you arrived at that given moment. Life was just a whole string of spots where you continued to surprise yourself.

Chase every rung of possibility, and you still get absolutely nowhere.

That maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.

Later, as I got to know her, I'd realize that when she gardens, she never sees the seed. She is already picturing the plant it will become. I imagine she thought the same, meeting me.

A jewel's just a rock put under enormous heat and pressure. Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.

maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.

Everyone has a book inside them - but it doesn't do an good until you pry it out.

realize that when she gardens, she never sees the seed. She is already picturing the plant it will become.

It seemed to him that if you planted the seed of doubt in people's minds, they were more likely to take a look at new growth and yank it out by its roots as a potential weed, when it could very well have turned into something as harmless as a daisy.

Later, as I got to know her, I'd realize that when she gardens, she never sees the seed. She is already picturing the plant it will become.

Babies are such blank slates. They don't come into this world with the assumptions their parents have made, or the promises their church will give, or the ability to sort people into groups they like and don't like.

Boy, she told Louie, don't you let nobody tell you who you can't be.

People you love can surprise you every day. That maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable when we least expect it.

Nobody," Sage reads, "who looks at a shard of flint lying beneath a rock ledge, or who finds a splintered log by the side of the road would ever find magic in their solitude. But in the right circumstances, if you bring them together, you can start a fire that consumes the world.

the people you love can surprise you every day. That maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.

Did you ever wonder who you would have been, if you hadn't become who you are?

And as far as being a leader, you do have a certain potential. But it would be along the lines of a teacher or a minister; you would have to lead from empathy, compassion. You have the desire to impose your ideas on other people, but not your will. Which means, you're right, you'll make one hell of a bad officer unless you shape up.

he'd done it as an infant.