#potential

All we are not stares back at what we are. ↗

— W.H. Auden

#self-improvement #potential

It isn't where you came from; it's where you're going that counts. ↗

— Ella Fitzgerald

#potential

What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason to fust in us unused. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#fulfillment #humankind #potential #marketing

Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential. ↗

— Les Brown

#cards #deal #fate #get #give

I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#down #experienced #healing #hope #i

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

#act #around #caring #compliment #ear

The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short. ↗

— Eleanor Clift

#embarrassingly #list #major #parties #party

Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#changing the world #creative #everybody #express #moment

I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc. ↗

— Jeff Vandermeer

#always #decaying #etc #i #i always

There's a lot of potential that goes unused in places like South Central L.A., a lot of brilliant, smart people who just don't have that chance to show it. ↗

— Ice Cube

#central #chance #goes #just #like