N. T. Wright Quotes

Bulb: potential flower buried in Autumn, never to be seen again.

What we do and accomplish is only the tip of the iceberg of what's possible for us.

I believe each person is more creative than he or she has ever imagined.

I wonder what becomes of lost opportunities? Perhaps our guardian angel gathers them up as we drop them, and will give them back to us in the beautiful sometime when we have grown wiser, and learned how to use them rightly.

I believe every person has within themselves inexhaustible reserves of potential they have never even come close to realizing.

Show not what has been done, but what can be. How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths.

Down through the years my face has been called a sour puss, a dead pan, a frozen face, The Great Stone Face, and, believe it or not, "a tragic mask." On the other hand that kindly critic, the late James Agee, described my face as ranking "almost with Lincoln's as an early American archetype, it was haunting, handsome, almost beautiful." I can't imagine what the great rail splitter's reaction would have been to this, though I sure was pleased.

I think there's an enormous lot of talent around, and somewhere amongst these I'm sure that something will emerge, given time.

I am an acme of things accomplished, and I an encloser of things to be.

Every person is born with a seed of greatness.

The possibilities of percussion sounds, I believe, have never been fully realized

A book which is left on a shelf is a dead thing but it is also a chrysalis, an inanimate object packed with the potential to burst into new life.

Inside every lump of coal there's a diamond waiting to get out.

Like every person, every thought has the potential to become something great.

Americans live with the certain knowledge that the source of their greatness has not yet been released.

If there is one thing that is foreign to me it is shopping for pleasure. On the other hand, I believe that it is right to honor all those who create beautiful things and give satisfaction to those who see me wearing them.

There are many people who could be Olympic champions. All-Americans who have never tried. I'd estimate more than 5 million people could have beaten me in the pole vault the years I won it... at least 5 million. Men that were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground trying to get over the bar.

We have far more ability than we give ourselves credit for.

Every person has seeds of greatness within, even though they may currently be dormant.

Too many people never connect with their true talents and therefore don't know what they are capable of achieving.

I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it.

There is no human life so poor and small as not to hold many a divine possibility.

I believe the greatest achievements of your life lie ahead of you.

In your hands you hold the seeds of failure - or the potential for greatness.