unexplored potential Quotes

What valuable company is nobody building?

I don't think even one per cent of the people in this world explore more than 10 per cent of all that this world has to offer. That's a shame!

I've always tried to make the strip animated, even when the characters aren't moving, with expressions or perspectives or some sort of exaggeration. There's great potential for that which has yet to be fully mined.

A creative person has to believe in the unseen and the untouched.

The most abundant, least used, and most abused resource in the world is human spirit and ingenuity.

Big ideas are little ideas that no-one killed too soon.

Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.

Undeveloped, the whole thing,tossed into a box before we really had a chance to know what we had, and that's why we broke up.

every human heart beat is a universe of possibilities.

So one predicts the future as much as one is cause. The future isn't a pattern laid out to abuse and bully you. The future is a beautiful playground that nobody happens to be combining. You talk about virgin territory - the most virgin territory there is, is the future. You can do anything you want with it. Nobody is doing anything with it.

Each of us has much more hidden inside us than we have had a chance to explore. Unless we create an environment that enables us to discover the limits of our potential, we will never know what we have inside of us.

The greatest waste … is failure to use the abilities of people…to learn about their frustrations and about the contributions that they are eager to make.

Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures.

Within us is the unborn possibility of limitless experience. Ours is the privilege of giving birth to it!

The lesson here is very simple. But it is striking how often it is overlooked. We are so caught in the myths of the best and the brightest and the self-made that we think outliers spring naturally from the earth. We look at the young Bill Gates and marvel that our world allowed that thirteen-year-old to become a fabulously successful entrepreneur. But that's the wrong lesson. Our world only allowed one thirteen-year-old unlimited access to a time sharing terminal in 1968. If a million teenagers had been given the same opportunity, how many more Microsofts would we have today?

He had not yet lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand then the impossible, and that what must be looked for is always the unforeseen.

What some folks call impossible is just stuff they haven't seen before.

I've goofed, and there's been something interesting, but I haven't made use of it. It just doesn't interest me.

The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

When the original is well chosen and judiciously copied, the imitator often arrives at excellence which he could never have attained without direction; for few are formed with abilities to discover new possibilities of excellence, and to distinguish themselves by means never tried before.

The mind is a far bigger domain than we ever imagined.

That's what's inspiring to me - finding someplace where people haven't already seen themselves in a certain light.

When something is new and hard and bright, there ought to be something a little better for it than just being safe, since the safe things are just the things that folks have been doing so long they have worn the edges off and there's nothing to the doing of them that leaves a man to say, That was not done before and it cannot be done again.

I didn't know I had it in me. There's more to all of us than we realize. Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think. We're capable of so much more than we allow ourselves to believe.

I think drug addicts have brains wired like adventurers and they didn't get the opportunity to find it. You know, the people I get to work with - not all of them are well-adjusted. Some of them are driven by heavy demons.