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It is often by a trivial, even an anecdotal decision, that we direct our activities into a certain channel, and thus determine which of the potential expressions of our individuality become manifest. Usually we know nothing of the ultimate orientation or of the outlet toward which we travel, and the stream sweeps us to a formula of life from which there is no returning. Every decision is like a murder, and our march forward is over the stillborn bodies of all our possible selves that will never be.


René Dubos


#individuality #limitation #potential #self #life

A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential; a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself.


Bo Bennett


#discover #good #good leader #great #help

With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.


Dalai Lama


#better #better world #build #own #potential

The inner world is very potent for me - I don't ascribe to any God or Jesus or Buddha - I just have a sense of it and revere it along with the natural world and human consciousness.


Annie Lennox


#any #ascribe #buddha #consciousness #god

When he died, Emerson was thought of as the representative American writer par excellence, and his point of view was still so potent that William James was honored to be asked to speak at a centenary celebration.


Howard Mumford Jones


#american writer #asked #celebration #died #emerson

'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.


Dianne Feinstein


#behind #child #districts #education #ensure

We've already gotten a significant grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and a university consortium. I think the whole sector of Foundations, potentially with government support, is promising - more than promising, I think, it's substantial.


Mitch Kapor


#andrew #consortium #foundation #foundations #gotten

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.


Helen Keller


#lived #miles #potent #smell #thousands

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.


Stephen King


#i #i think #into #life #places

You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.


J. Martin Kohe


#either #every #every day #force #hundreds