Quotes About Potential

But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowledge, and our words which we suppose to be false forecast an imminent reality.

Without inquiring too deeply into the causes which make it possible to find subjects of gaiety always close at hand, the proof of that possibility can be found in the fact that persons of sensitive intelligence are capable of finding comic potentialities in everything and everybody, thereby demonstrating that if some people hold the belief that there is very little that is laughable in the world, the reason is that they lack the ability to find it.

Do not think that what is hard for thee to master is impossible for man; but if a thing is possible and proper to man, deem it attainable by thee.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

People don't change that much. Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in. That is hard enough.

God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.

In music, recording, writing, photography, design, film-making and any other creative endeavour, it may be true that anyone can do it, but it is not quite as true as punk sometimes seemed to suggest that anyone can do it in a way that is appreciated by others. The key point is that, without determination and application, talent and ideas are just unrealised potential. That lesson-there for anyone who wishes to learn it-is perhaps punk's , and the Clash's, greatest legacy.

From humble bandannas do mighty albums grow...

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In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it.

One thing I believe with all my soul: Don't try to guess somebody's ceiling.

If. The smallest word, which raises the biggest questions.

While I was not entirely satisfied with the circumstances of my existence, I felt like the possibility of improvement still existed. That I could make happiness happen.

When I was sixteen, it was simple. Poetry existed; therefore it could be written; and nobody had told me -- yet -- the many, many reasons why it could not be written by me.

God gave me this enormous talent, but He forgot to give me the courage to use it." ... "I don't think God forgot," Justin said. "I think He simply gave you a challenge that you haven't yet conquered.

Who would be a goody that could be a genius?

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader." ? Margaret Fuller

Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural.

This very moment is a seed from which tomorrow's flowers grow.

This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow's happiness grow.

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today. -A

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Let our children grow tall and some taller than others if they have it in them to do so.