#potential

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#be kind #born #cannot #consistency #courage

I read a book recently by a psychiatrist who was able to interview a few serial killers and she had a thesis on how you could figure these people out. And she thinks that there are things that could tell you whether someone has the potential to do that. ↗

— Tom Araya

#book #could #few #figure #had

What I did was I completed the half-hour film, but before really showing it, I wrote two more sections for a potential feature film which I didn't think would really happen, but at least I had it in case. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#case #completed #did #feature #feature film

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential. ↗

— Bruce Lee

#child #development #duty #ever #expansion

By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being. ↗

— Ashley Montagu

#born #development #every #fulfillment #his

Alaska has great potential for new oil and gas development. ↗

— Frank Murkowski

#development #gas #great #new #oil

We need to think deeply about whether we can sustain banks that are not only too big to fail, but potentially too big to bail. ↗

— George Osborne

#bail #banks #big #deeply #fail

What we look for in the school is unrealized potential. ↗

— Donna Reed

#potential #school

My son, your ineptitude is so vast, your incompetence so profound, that I am certain you are inhabited by greater power than I have ever known. Unfortunately, it seems to be working backward at the moment, and even I can find no way to set it right. It must be that you are meant to find your own way to reach your power in time; but frankly, you should live so long as that will take you. Therefore I grant it that you shall not age from this day forth, but will travel the world round and round, eternally inefficient, until at last you come to yourself and know what you are. Don't thank me. I tremble at your doom. ↗

— Peter S. Beagle

#magic #potential #age

National film industries tend to move in cycles. In Australia right now, we're on a high, a feeling of potential, which as yet shows no sign of flagging. But the word "industry" is misleading. A small national cinema has no industry in the Hollywood sense. ↗

— Peter Weir

#cinema #cycles #feeling #film #flagging