Potential

"But not the first Illusion, the new earth, The march upon the solitary fire, The casting of the dice of death and birth Against a giant, for a blind desire, The stream uncrossed, the promise still untried, The metal sleeping in the mountainside."

"Ultimately, theres one investment that supersedes all others: Invest in yourself. Address whatever you feel your weaknesses are, and do it now. I was terrified of public speaking when I was young. I couldnt do it. It cost me $100 to take a Dale Carnegie course, and it changed my life. I got so confident about my new ability, I proposed to my wife during the middle of the course. It also helped me sell stocks in Omaha, despite being 21 and looking even younger. Nobody can take away what youve got in yourself—and everybody has potential they havent used yet. If you can increase your potential 10%, 20% or 30% by enhancing your talents, they cant tax it away. Inflation cant take it from you. You have it the rest of your life."

"The method of considering the components of a vector as the first derivatives of a certain function of the coordinates with respect to those coordinates was invented by Laplace ... in his treatment of the theory of attractions. The name of Potential was first given to this function by ..., who made it the basis of his theory of electricity. Greens essay was neglected by mathematicians till 1846, and before that time most of its important theorems had been discovered by Gauss, , , and ..."

"My parents... imagined me going to the best schools in the land, even though they werent rich, because in a generous America you dont have to be rich to achieve your potential."

"[I]t’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential."