Every human being has talents that are just waiting to be uncovered.
There is more inside you than you dare think.
The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.
I see the human being is an incredible machine, totally undiscovered in many ways. Every one of us has a hidden tank of energy that comes out when it is needed.
Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy that are ordinarily not called upon - deeper and deeper strata of explosible material, ready for use by anyone who probes so deep. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.
I'm only 42, and I've got a lot more tricks up my sleeve.
We all have many more abilities and internal resources than we know. My advice is that you don't need to break your neck to find out about them.
People have a reservoir of talent worth discovering. They just have to be given the opportunity to discover it in themselves
What we do and accomplish is only the tip of the iceberg of what's possible for us.
We are all born with extraordinary powers of imagination, intelligence, feeling, intuition, spirituality, and of physical and sensory awareness. For the most part, we use only a fraction of these powers, and some not at all.
We all have supernatural powers, but have not been educated on how to use them. That is why they are called SUPER-NATURAL. They are already super NATURAL to US!
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.
Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.
The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
How do you know what possibilities lie behind that degradation on the surface? You know but little of that which is within you. For behind you is the ocean of infinite power and blessedness.
With hidden powers of unknown extent apparently at his disposal, Curwen was not a man who could safely be warned to leave town.
Potential is a priceless treasure, like gold. All of us have gold hidden within, but we have to dig to get it out.