Rosamund Pike Quotes

Most human beings only scratch the surface of their real potential. They have no idea what they're capable of.

Potential is a priceless treasure, like gold. All of us have gold hidden within, but we have to dig to get it out.

So few people know what they're capable of.

Your potentialities are a great deal better than anyone ever permitted you to believe.

We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do. It's only when necessity faces us that we rise to the occasion and actually do the things that hitherto have seemed impossible.

Maybe you can't play over your head at all. Maybe it's just potential you never knew you had.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

I think I have a gift, but I haven't really opened that gift yet and given it to myself.

We are all more capable than we could ever imagine or admit to.

I started writing after college, slowly, secretly writing.

I was a pretty sheltered kid, a slow starter. I was pretty secretive with my passion for music and, I guess, my talent and what-not.

No player at the beginning of his career knows how good he can be.

People make a lot of effort not to remember, not to accept their immense magical potential.

You have more potential than you think.

There are so many things that 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.

There are greater and better things in us all, than the world takes account of, or than we take note of; if we would but find them out.

I think each of us can, through our writing, discover our super power

I didn't know I had it in me. There's more to all of us than we realize. Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think. We're capable of so much more than we allow ourselves to believe.

The greatest good we can do for anyone is not to share our wealth with them, but rather to reveal their own wealth to them. It's astonishing how much talent and ability rests inside a human being

It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilities unknown to us. It is only the passions that have the power of bringing them to light, and sometimes give us views more true and more perfect than art could possibly do.

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

After all, people may really have in them some vocation which is not quite plain to themselves, may they not? They may seem idle and weak because they are growing. We should be very patient with each other, I think.

None of us really pushes hard enough. People always talk about playing over your head when you are up against someone really good. Maybe you don't play over your head at all. Maybe it's just potential you never knew you had.