Alan Turing Quotes

I don't think a lot of people know that I can sing. It's not common knowledge.

When you have a special gift you don’t realize it because you think everyone else has the same gift.

Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.

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.

The extraordinary lies in the path of ordinary people.

People are disgusted. They're disgusted with their politicians. They're disgusted with our trade deals. They're disgusted with the fact that the military can't even beat ISIS. Can you imagine telling General George Patton we can't beat ISIS?

There are tons of people who have made great music, great art, great whatever, but you don't know about them until the people lift you to a certain height so that you could even be visible and get any kind of recognition.

Every one of us has secret dreams and desires along with seeds of greatness implanted within us. You too have gifts to share with this world. There is buried treasure within you, waiting to be discovered. Your full potential has not been released yet. Your God-given divine destiny awaits you.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.

You hold in your hands the happiness of more people than you can imagine.

All people have the common desire to be elevated in honour, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.

For a lot of people, if they're lucky, it begins with somebody who recognizes something in them.

Leadership potential exists in everybody. What I think we have missed is that we have somehow relegated leadership only to a special, talented few people.

Most people who do have the instincts will never recognize that they do, because they don't have the courage or the good fortune to discover their potential.

Unkind people imagine themselves to be inflicting pain on someone equally unkind.

A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone; the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. The philosopher, the saint, or the hero,--the wise, the good, or the great man,--very often lies hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred, and have brought to light.

You don't have to be a genius to find the hidden potential deep in your mind.

Not everybody has time to pay attention fully, or not everybody has the time to read a book. Some people refuse to read books, and I'm just an unread book. Open me!

People often imagine that being hard to please confers a certain superiority.

It's so hard to find the time. I only have one kid and it's hard with one kid. I can't imagine people who have more than that.

I've grown so much as a person through playing Gabrielle, much less living in New Zealand and being with all of these people that I can't imagine my life being any different.

Many people are leaders trapped in a follower's body.

It's not the darkness that people fear; it's what they imagine into the darkness.

Sometimes people save the best part of themselves for their art.

I get tired of myself pretty fast. So I can't imagine other people don't get tired of me.