Quotes About Potential

Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.

We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.

Thou hast seen nothing yet.

Love not what you are, but what you may become.

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nova e luminosa, o sol batia-te por trás dos cabelos louros e tu eras mesmo a miúda de botticelli, uma Primavera transplantada da luz suave da Toscana para aquela luz dura da Argélia. Tudo, tudo, parecia ao teu alcance. Uma vida toda à tua espera, o mundo a teus pés, se o quisesses. Ou um deserto.

The flow experience, like everything else, is not "good" in an absolute sense. It is good only in that it has the potential to make life more rich, intense, and meaningful; it is good because it increases the strength and complexity of the self.

Everything the body can do is potentially enjoyable. Yet many people ignore this capacity, and use their physical equipment as little as possible, leaving its ability to provide flow unexploited. When

To realize the body's potential for flow is relatively easy. It does not require special talents or great expenditures of money. Everyone can greatly improve the quality of life by exploring one or more previously ignored dimensions of physical abilities. Of

Using this scheme, it can be said that games offer opportunities to go beyond the boundaries of ordinary experience in four different ways. In agonistic games, the participant must stretch her skills to meet the challenge provided by the skills of the opponents. The roots of the word "compete" are the Latin con petire, which meant "to seek together." What each person seeks is to actualize her potential, and this task is made easier when others force us to do our best.

A community should be judged good not because it is technologically advanced, or swimming in material riches; it is good if it offers people a chance to enjoy as many aspects of their lives as possible, while allowing them to develop their potential in the pursuit of ever greater challenges.

For each person there are thousands of opportunities, challenges to expand ourselves.

When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. They

But a cultivated palate provides many opportunities for flow if one approaches eating—and cooking—in a spirit of adventure and curiosity, exploring the potentials of food for the sake of the experience rather than as a showcase for one's expertise. The

The "autotelic self" is one that easily translates potential threats into enjoyable challenges, and therefore maintains its inner harmony.

Almost every situation we encounter in life presents possibilities for growth.

The autotelic self transforms potentially entropic experience into flow.

Enjoyable events occur when a person has not only met some prior expectation or satisfied a need or a desire but also gone beyond what he or she has been programmed to do and achieved something unexpected, perhaps something even unimagined before.

Openness to experience, a fluid attention that constantly processes events in the environment, is a great advantage for recognizing potential novelty.

If one does not use the mind to its fullest, then good feelings fulfill just a fraction of the potential we possess.

As one focuses on any segment of reality, a potentially infinite range of opportunities for action-physical, mental, or emotional-is revealed for our skills to engage with. There is never a good excuse for being bored.

The psychic entropy peculiar to the human condition involves seeing more to do than one can actually accomplish and feeling able to accomplish more than what conditions allow.

They detest you only because you stand so high above other men, and that is something that mediocre souls can never endure. And yet in each one of us lies the latent faculty of surpassing others. Of that I am sure.

Here's what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that. That comes from our Creator. We're given a body. Now you may not like it, but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized.