#potent

There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it ↗

— Andrew Schneider

#potential #inspirational

Yes, there are in me the makings of a very fine loafer, and also of a pretty spry sort of fellow. I often think of those lines of old Goethe: 'Schade, daß die Natur nur einen Menschen aus dir schuf; Denn zum würdigen Mann war und zum Schelmen der Stoff.' ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#goethe #humanity #men #poetry #potential

I feel like I could dominate the origami field. I think I have enormous potential in that area. ↗

— Jon Cryer

#could #dominate #enormous #feel #field

In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public. ↗

— Frank Church

#american public #cia #committee #concern #covert

All of my books have the potential to become movies, it's just a question of finding a studio who wants to get behind me and put up the money to make the movie. ↗

— Jackie Collins

#behind #books #finding #get #just

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God. ↗

— Mary Daly

#creative #god #human #human beings #image

It's perseverance that's the key. It's persevering for long enough to achieve your potential. ↗

— Lynn Davies

#enough #key #long #perseverance #persevering

Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#away #bloom #cheek #god #gray

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general. ↗

— Lorraine Hansberry

#exposure #general #her #herself #interesting

People generally fall into one of three groups: the few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, and the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens. Every person is either a creator of fact or a creature of circumstance. He either puts color into his environment, or, like a chameleon, takes color from his environment. ↗

— Myles Munroe

#inspirational #potentials #attitude