Peter Senge Quotes

Anyone with a normal brain has the capacity to do almost anything, but when one has special gifts or talents (and everyone has) and takes advantage of and develops these talents - that person is likely to excel.

We are all born with wonderful gifts. We use these gifts to express ourselves, to amuse, to strengthen, and to communicate. We begin as children to explore and develop our talents, often unaware that we are unique, that not everyone can do what we're doing!

Every individual human being born on this earth has the capacity to become a unique and special person, unlike any who has ever existed before or ever will exist again.

One thing that all of my children, biological and foster children, have taught me is the unbelievable diversity of talent and giftedness that all people have.

Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.

I believe we are all geniuses-each in our own unique way.

Everyone has special talents, and it is our duty to find ours and use them well.

Every person has unique gifts, and those gifts give him or her the power and the opportunity to accomplish great things, if he or she learns how to use those gifts and channel them in the right direction.

Everyone has their own talents. It's up to the individual to see what you can actually do.

I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.

We are all born naked into this world, but each of us is fully clothed in potential.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Without creative personalities able to think and judge independently, the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality without the nourishing soil of the community.

All of us are born with certain gifts, and the secret to success is figuring out what your gift is and using it in a way that benefits others.

If more people follow their superpowers - and everyone has one - then we're going to be better as a society.

The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others.

We don't choose our talents; but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want.

Find ways to embrace the things that make you unique, and you'll unlock the ways you can make a difference in the world.

The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth.

People are the common denominator of progress; no improvement is possible with unimproved people.

What do we teach our children? . . . We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique . . . You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything.

People's purpose in life is always connected to their giftedness.

I've accepted the fact that because I'm human, I'm terrific in one thing, good at some, mediocre at a bit more, and terrible at others. And if you're human, you are too. You'll have to discover the one thing that you are good at and major in it.

Human beings have a variety of intelligences, such as cognitive intelligence, emotional intelligence, musical intelligence, kinesthetic intelligence, and so on. Most people excel in one or two of those, but do poorly in the others. This is not necessarily or even usually a bad thing; part of Integral wisdom is finding where one excels and thus where one can best offer the world one's deepest gifts.

When we embrace the things that make us unique, our true and remarkable capabilities are revealed