Unused Capacity Quotes

When I'm on a train and see an empty pitch, it gives me a certain pleasure that I can't quite describe. It's to do with potential.

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.

Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.

You pigs, you. You rut like pigs, is all. You got the most in you, and you use the least. You hear me, you? Got a million in you and spend pennies. Got a genius in you and think crazies. Got a heart in you and feel empties. All a you. Every you.

Curiosity is an asset mostly frittered away.

... people are capable of more than their organizational positions ever give them the tools or the time or the opportunity to demonstrate.

I think I have a gift, but I haven't really opened that gift yet and given it to myself.

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

Our beds are empty two-thirds of the time. Our living rooms are empty seven-eighths of the time. Our office buildings are empty one-half of the time. It's time we gave this some thought.

Human beings only use ten percent of their brains. Ten percent! Can you imagine how much we could accomplish if we used the other sixty 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.

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger.

When you still have something in the tank, it's really hard to let it go.

There's much unlocked potential in Philips.

I don't think people have seen yet what I can really do. Only appetizers!

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.

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 think that we have great potential but never reach it.

A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect.

Did you ever feel, as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren't using - you know, like all the water that goes down the falls instead of through the turbines?