#potent

Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#only #potential #real #scratched #surface

Any gifted child can potentially get in real trouble because of the way they are handled. ↗

— Itzhak Perlman

#because #child #get #gifted #handled

For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them. ↗

— Itzhak Perlman

#before #burned #child #child prodigy #even

Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#being #built #consists #ground #having

I was going to be a concert pianist, and when I was in high school, my parents were scared to death that I would focus too much on that too soon. And that I'd end up in some sort of dead end, and not fulfilling whatever potential they thought I had. ↗

— David Hyde Pierce

#concert pianist #dead #dead end #death #end

I am leaving because I have to fight simultaneously a potential recurrence of cancer the Democratic leadership, a health care bill that's going to destroy this country, my opposition to it and a belief that my party has become what it became - what it campaigned against. ↗

— Eric Massa

#am #became #because #become #belief

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

— Margaret Mead

#constructive #destructive #human #human nature #nature

There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future. ↗

— Herman Melville

#future #governor #laws #most #must

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#board #easy #god #gods #imagine

Stem cells have the potential to be used to treat and better understand some of the world's most deadly and disabling diseases. ↗

— Mark Udall

#cells #deadly #diseases #most #potential