Quotes About Potential

No one loves you for what you have done, but for what you might do.

Focus instead on what is possible. Focus instead on the fact that if you choose to impose your personal will on your personal reality today, things can happen. That's what confidence can do for you. This

Most organizations exploit only a fraction of the knowledge, experience, and intellectual capital that is available to them.

we had no real qualities, except the one that youth gives to everyone for a very brief time, like a big promise that will never be kept.

Whatever the world looks like now. That's not always how it's going to look. There's more. There's always more.

Now that I know there's more? I want to have more. If there really is more to life, I want to live all of it. And why shouldn't all of us? Don't we deserve that?

Smart boys make useless men.

Haven't you ever felt like there has to be more? Like there's more out there somewhere, just beyond your grasp, if you could only get to it..

Les histoires sont des créatures sauvages. Quand tu les libères, qui sait ce qu'elles peuvent déclencher?

It had been amazing. Just utterly, utterly amazing, like that whole summer before senior year had been, when everything had seemed possible, when everything good felt like it was just within reach for once, when if he could just hang in there, it really would finally all come together

In a place of all this beauty and potential, we just repeat the same mistakes. Do we hate paradise so much we have to be sure it becomes a trash heap?

You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always something you don't know.

Strength of body. Strength of mind. strength of personality. All this things lie within a person. They define us. They determine our limits.

They seemed to be good people. Most people are if given the chance.

As they say, a jeweler knows the uncut gem. And I am. And she was. And so.

My point is this. In each of us there is a mind we use for all our waking deeds. But there is another mind as well, a sleeping mind. It is so powerful that the sleeping mind of an eight-year-old can accomplish in one second what the waking minds of seven members of the Arcanum could not in fifteen minutes.

nearly half full, seating about two hundred students. The room was

I imagine I could do anything," I said easily. "If you would ask it of me.

Yes. No. Maybe. Elsewhere. Soon.

Suffice to say she was impressive, though obviously still learning. She struck a few bad notes, but didn't flinch or cringe away from them. As they say, a jeweler knows the uncut gem. And I am. And she was. And so.

O instrumento tem dentro de si um mundo, teórico e físico. Só que demonstrá-lo, ninguém o faz, do ponte de vista prático-musical. O mesmo se passa com os instrumentos de sopro. E com todas as pessoas... agora em sentido figurado. Conheço pessoas que possuem dentro de si todo um universo, incomensurável. Mas fazer com que ele saia cá para fora, isso ninguém o faz. Seria o fim. Mas adiante...

No one expected me. Everything awaited me.

In my way of thinking, anything is possible. Life is at the bottom of things and belief at the top, while the creative impulse, dwelling in the center, informs all.

I imagined a lot of things. That I would shine. That I'd be good. I'd dwell bareheaded on a summit turning a wheel that would turn the earth undetected, amongst the clouds, I would have some influence; be of some avail.