We were in the presence of a new factor in human affairs. We possessed powers which were irresistible ... our outlook on the future was transformed.
After the first atomic bomb test, the day before the Potsdam Conference began:
I don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.
I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.
People will put restrictions on your ability, on your aptitude, on your talent, on your character, and to be honest, it's just opinion. Don't let anyone put you in a box or draw your path for you.
Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
In this initial illimitableness of possibilities that characterizes one who has no nature there stands out only one fixed, pre-established, and given line by which he may chart his course, only one limit: the past.
Personally, I had no confines: there were no bounds, no boundaries that I felt when I got in the ring.
One is lucky to be born in a place where no one is doing it, because then you can say, 'Well, obviously I can write better than everyone else in high school.' You have no idea of the competition.
Nothing is impossible.
I have always been a singer, a writer, and a musician, not as a prodigy or as in a trade handed to me by my parents, but because of an inner voice or maybe a command from beyond reality as it is usually defined.
When you are a young person, the world is yours. You can do the impossible.
That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.
I've always been of the opinion that great talent can't be held down.
And they were writing scripts where Christine had hit the glass ceiling. And I always thought Christine would never hit the glass ceiling. I thought her dreams would take her. Maybe her dreams wouldn't take her where she wanted, but she still had her dreams.
The sky's the limit as fast as I can ever run.
You don't have to go out there and fit the mold of what a quarterback is supposed to be. Make your own mold and do the best at each role. If you can run with the best and throw with the best, you can be the best quarterback in your own version of the position.
Time clocks rob the world of wild possibility. That's what they're for.
I've got mad energy for days. That's what people can't get their minds around. They say, 'Oh, he's going to crash.' They try to apply all these common terms to a guy who is not common. I don't fit into their little box.
Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.
When humans become gods, when our wings grow so great as to beat about the very edges of the earth, no one can answer but us.
I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.
Genius is independent of situation.
Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.