Bulb: potential flower buried in Autumn, never to be seen again.
Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive.
Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
No question about it: potential is wrapped in great mystery. Like rainbows, which are really circles-we see only the upper halves, the horizon hides the rest-potential never reveals its entirety.
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.
Genius and great abilities are often wanting; sometimes, only opportunities. Some deserve praise for what they have done; others for what they would have done.
Inside every lump of coal there's a diamond waiting to get out.
I do stuff that I don't even know I can do sometimes.
Many ... have tremendous God-given gifts, but they don't focus on the development of those gifts. Who are these individuals? You've never heard of them- and you never will .
Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing.
It so cliché to say some guys and girls need to step up, but there can be bigger stars and bigger names when people get their chance.
Maybe you can't play over your head at all. Maybe it's just potential you never knew you had.
If it were possible for any one person or group of persons to go through a photographic finishing plant's work at the end of a day, you could probably pull out the most extraordinary photographic exhibition we've ever seen. On almost any subject. The trouble is to find the things.
But the present world is also designed for something which has not yet happened. It is like a violin waiting to be played: beautiful to look at, graceful to hold - and yet if you'd never heard one in the hands of a musician, you wouldn't believe the new dimensions of beauty yet to be revealed.
There are hundreds of thousands of kids walking around with a sleeping monster inside them.
I have this ability to find this hidden talent in people that sometimes even they didn't know they had.
We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.
Most men, like plants, possess hidden qualities which chance discovers.
There exists in man a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that condition,to the grave.
Excellence when concealed, differs but little from buried worthlessness. [Lat., Paullum sepultae distat inertiae Celata virtus.]
Often we don't have a good notion of what our talents are, because we have never had a chance to try them out.
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
I firmly believe that we have more latent musical talent in America than there is in any other country. But to dig it out there must be good music throughout the land, a lot of it. Everyone must hear it, and such a process takes time.
I always say if I'm not good at something it's just because I've not had time to focus on it... it's just uncrafted, like a slab of rock that contains the statue of David within it.
We think that we have great potential but never reach it.
