Anyone with a normal brain has the capacity to do almost anything, but when one has special gifts or talents (and everyone has) and takes advantage of and develops these talents - that person is likely to excel.
What valuable company is nobody building?
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.
The wealthiest place on the planet is the graveyard, because in the graveyard we will find inventions that we were never ever exposed to, ideas, dreams that never became a reality, hopes and aspirations that were never acted upon.
One of the greatest tragedies in life is to watch potential die untapped.
Most people don't find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don't even know they have great talent.
Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches.
I often think about the many remarkable things that my personal computer can do which I never ask it to do. I probably use a small fraction of its capabilities. I often wonder if the same dynamic occurs with our capacity for creativity.
The wealthiest places in the world are not gold mines, oil fields, diamond mines or banks. The wealthiest place is the cemetery. There lies companies that were never started, masterpieces that were never painted… In the cemetery there is buried the greatest treasure of untapped potential. There is a treasure within you that must come out. Don’t go to the grave with your treasure still within YOU.
I think there is a huge ceiling in Derek Carr. I think he has proven that.
I look for something unique, and I look for people who haven't reached their potential. I think I'm pretty good at developing talent.
I believe each person has far more intelligence than they have ever used.
The graveyard is the richest place on the surface of the earth because there you will see the books that were not published, ideas that were not harnessed, songs that were not sung, and drama pieces that were never acted.
For me, the saddest thing in the world is always lost potential. That is always the most heartbreaking thing, when there's something left to be mined from a situation or a person that goes unexplored; that's a tragedy to me.
Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources.
We are all capable of infinitely more than we believe. We are stronger and more resourceful than we know, and we can endure much more than we think we can.
You married me...but you didn't marry what you could make out of me.
So few people know what they're capable of.
There is gold everywhere, most people are not trained to see it
Bulb: potential flower buried in Autumn, never to be seen again.
Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.
I'm afraid," Professor Piper said, "afraid that you're never going to discover what you're truly capable of. That you won't get to see-that I won't get to see-any of the wonder that's inside of you.
I feel like I haven't done my best work yet. I feel like there's a world of possibilities out there.
When nobody wants something, that creates an opportunity.
You have more potential than you think.
