Collective Potential Quotes

The essence of synergy is to value differences-to respect them, to build on strengths, to compensate for weaknesses

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Chemistry cannot be manufactured or forced, so Wild Flag was not a sure thing, it was a 'maybe,' a 'possibility.' But after a handful of practice sessions, spread out over a period of months, I think we all realized that we could be greater than the sum of our parts.

In the end an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value.

I try to tell each group that it is not alone, and that the very people who are disheartened by the absence of a national movement are themselves proof of the potential for such a movement.

You need the actors to feel as much ownership of the performance and the direction of the story as you do to get the most out of everyone's potential. Part of it is just making sure we all have the same vision.

Together, we will have one great American future. Our potential is unlimited. We will be one people, under one God, saluting one American flag.

We as a people, as a state, and as a community, have too much promise, too much potential, and too much at stake to go any other way than forward. We are too strong in our hearts, too innovative in our minds, and too firm in our beliefs to retreat from our goals.

Whatsoever things common to man, that man has done, man can do.

No man has greater confidence than I have in the spirit of the people, to a rational extent. Whatever they can, they will.

I think the wonderment of seeing my two sons developing makes me incredibly optimistic about human potential. It makes you think: 'My goodness. It's a miracle that's going on here. What could the human race do together?'

There is no limit to our ability and potential when we, as a nation and as a people, work together.

Visions describe what best should be, could be - if and when mankind has the will to make them real.

It's not just politicians who underestimate us; we underestimate ourselves.

We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions

You know, this country today, it seems to me - it's about fear. And it shouldn't be about fear. It should be about hope and optimism and creativity and accepting a challenge and being a moral leader and being a great nation.

In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.

I feel like as a generation, we sell ourselves short. I just expected more from us.