#potential

The tragedy of Tupac is that his untimely passing is representative of too many young black men in this country....If we had lost Oprah Winfrey at 25, we would have lost a relatively unknown, local market TV anchorwoman. If we had lost Malcolm X at 25, we would have lost a hustler named Detroit Red. And if I had left the world at 25, we would have lost a big-band trumpet player and aspiring composer--just a sliver of my eventual life potential. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#lost-potential #death

We are a sum total of what we have learned from all who have taught us, both great and small. ↗

— Myles Munroe

#knowledge-of-self #life #potentials #inspirational

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. ↗

— Confucius

#desire #door #excellence #full #keys

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

All that you have been is but a small part, a very mere bit of the potential of your life. ↗

— Jennifer DeLucy

#inspirational #life #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

A black man singing about a blond girl was potential trouble. ↗

— Charley Pride

#black #blond #girl #man #potential

I'm a bitter-ender. It's potentially my fatal flaw that I do not give up on something. I will not rest. I work and work and work until I can no longer and someone has to remove me from the premises. ↗

— Sarah Jessica Parker

#flaw #give #i #i can #i do

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair. ↗

— Jack Kemp

#american #american society #cities #despair #inner