Patrick Collison Quotes

I just think that we're capable of so much more; we don't utilize all our capacity like we should.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.

I wake up with new dreams every day...more I can do to channel that into things that I love to create is healthier for me and probably for everybody around me.

I believe in excellence. It is a basic need of every human soul. All of us can be excellent, because, fortunately, we are exceedingly diverse in our ambitions and talents.

MAN’S ONLY LIMITATION, within reason, LIES IN HIS DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF HIS IMAGINATION.

If people are not laughing at your dreams at least once a week, you are aiming too low!

When you allow yourself to begin to dream big dreams, creatively abandon the activities that are taking up too much of your time, and focus your inward energies on alleviating your main constraints, you start to feel an incredible sense of power and confidence.

Given the right circumstances, from no more than dreams, determination, and the liberty to try, quite ordinary people consistently do extraordinary things

What leaders have to remember is that somewhere under the somnolent surface is the creature that builds civilizations, the dreamer of dreams, the risk taker. And remembering that, the leader must reach down to the springs that never dry up, the ever-fresh springs of the human spirit.

The inspiration of a noble cause enables men to do things they did not dream themselves capable of before

Sometimes we drug ourselves with dreams of new ideasl The head will save us. The brain alone will set us free. But there are no new ideas waiting in the wings to save us as women, as human. There are only old and forgotten ones, new combinations, extrapolations and recognitions from within ourselves--along with the renewed courage to try them out.

I like to challenge myself and give myself a timeline. It pushes me to be more creative and actually do these things, not just dream about them.

You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.

There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits on the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

The true success is the person who invented himself.

In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds.

A theatre is the most important sort of house in the world because that's where people are shown what they could be if they wanted and what they'd like to be if they dared to and what they really are.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

At the end of the day, life's about realising one's human potential. I don't know if I've realised mine, but I've certainly gone a long way towards realising some goals and some dreams.

I believe we all have the capacity to be masters of many things, and there's nothing that we can't do. You can be a great actor and also be a great writer. There's so many things that all of us have the capacity to do. But somehow, life tries to convince us that we'd be lucky to do even one thing well, and I disagree.

It's obvious we can't all be a Gully Foyle, but most of us energize at such a low level, so far short of our real capabilities, we could all be more, do more.

[In America] No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man; and what is not yet done is only what he has not yet attempted to do.