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Quotes About Potential

Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.
~ Herbert Simon
on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
We are told that talent creates opportunity, yet it is desire that creates talent.
~ Bruce Lee
Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
~ Timothy Keller
A true desire is not to have but to be. We are whole creatures in potential, and the true purpose of desire is to unfold that wholeness, to become what we can be.
~ Eric Butterworth
Desire awakens only to things that are thought possible.
~ Rene Descartes
You wouldn't desire something if you didn't have the talent to carry it out.
~ Napoleon Hill
Each one should realize there is nothing in (us) which denies that which (we) desire.
~ Ernest Holmes
What you intuitively desire, that is possible to you.
~ D. H. Lawrence
And what does every child believe every adult capable of doing? Of actually being able to bend the world to an inner desire, exactly what the child is busily practicing in his passionate play.
~ Joseph Chilton Pearce
If your desire is a 10 but your self-esteem is a 5, you'll never perform at the level of a 10. You'll perform as a 5 or lower. People are ever able to outperform their self-image.
~ John C. Maxwell
Desire is possibility seeking expression.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Even when I went to the playground, I never picked the best players. I picked guys with less talent, but who were willing to work hard and had the desire to be great.
~ Magic Johnson
Everything I desire is within me.
~ Deepak Chopra
Desire is the presentiment of our inner abilities, and the forerunner of our ultimate accomplishments.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Federer can be the best ever; he has the potential. The only question is whether he has the desire
~ Richard Krajicek
Dependable teams members possess the desire to do the things they are capable of doing.
~ John C. Maxwell
All people have the common desire to be elevated in honour, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.
~ Mencius
Open your mind to the infinite possibilities that exist for you; then create within your reality the things that you desire.
~ Steven Redhead
You are a person of destiny. You are not here by accident. There is no obstacle too big, no dream you can't accomplish.
~ Joel Osteen
The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny.
~ Steven Pressfield
I think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.
~ Lorraine Hansberry
Only those who develop their minds and spirits to the utmost can serve Heaven and fulfill their own destinies.
~ Mencius