latent ability Quotes

Potential just means you ain't done it yet.

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.

I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it. Electricity will do all that. It makes no judgment. I think talent is like that. I believe every person is born with talent.

People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.

Potential means you haven't done anything yet.

Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.

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

Sometimes very small investments can release enormous, infinite potential that exists in all of us.

Anyone can count the seeds of an apple. Who can count the apples in a seed?

The average person works at fifty percent or less of their potential. Your job is to unleash that extra fifty percent.

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

What I discovered is that there has always been a soldier inside me; I just didn't know it.

The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained.

But there was something I liked about the idea of those seeds buried so deep having at least a chance to emerge

All progress and power are already in every man; perfection is man's nature, only it is barred in and prevented from taking its proper course.

Many a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, and never produces any thing for want of improvement.

No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability; far more unused than used power.

We have unrealized capacities that sometimes only emerge in crisis.

An infinity of forest lies dormant within the dreams on one acorn.

The power of the Plus Factor is potential but it is not self-activating. It is latent in human beings and will remain latent until it is activated.

The root of the word education is e-ducere, literally, to lead forth, or to bring out something which is potentially present.

I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument an an unsuspected yearning to play on it, which are bound to wake up an demand attention someday. Therefore you who rail at such that disturb your slumbers with unsuccessful and demoralizing attempts to subjugate a guitar, beware! For sooner or later your own time will come.

It doth not yet appear what we shall be. We lie here in our nest, unfledged and weak, guessing dimly at our future, and scarce believing what even now appears. But the power is in us, and that power is finally to be revealed. And what a revelation will that be!

I guess I just look at talent as a very subjective thing. I mean, if you never tried playing an oboe, how do you know you're not the most talented oboe player ever? The point is that if you don't love it, then it doesn't matter.

Opportunities? They are all around us ... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.