#potential

You can create sense out of nonsense, something out of nothing. You can create wealth out of dearth, viable ventures out of turbulent adventures. You can create mercies out of miseries. You can create tomorrow’s peace out of today’s crisis. ↗

— Ikechukwu Joseph

#create-vision #destiny #develop-talents #discover-potentials #dreams

War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#aimed #being #collective #confrontation #faced

We are a country with great potential. We have the political will to make deep changes in a just and equitable way, to put our country back on a development path, to meet the challenges of a new world. ↗

— Georgios A. Papandreou

#challenges #changes #country #deep #development

I always look at films as real stories with real people in real situations. That's why I struggle with the whole notion of calling someone the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy,' because I think we all have potential to do good things and all have the potential to do bad things. ↗

— Guy Pearce

#bad #bad guy #because #calling #films

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

When I'm not training day in and day out I love to go out and dance, even though it is potentially in my contract that I'm not allowed to do that. ↗

— Taylor Phinney

#contract #dance #day #even #go

So I think in those circumstances, there's some potential that you could see a big pendulum swing like 1994, which people you thought weren't vulnerable all of the sudden get in trouble. ↗

— John Podesta

#circumstances #could #get #i #i think

Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled. ↗

— Katherine Anne Porter

#being #capable #chances #could #fulfilled

I'm a big believer in the notion that our greatest potential lies in our darkest parts. To a certain extent it's only in facing those parts of ourselves that we can truly grow, and I think that's true of all of the characters I've played, certainly in the past few years. ↗

— Zachary Quinto

#big #big believer #certain #certain extent #certainly