Potential Quotes
I don't want to convert people to Buddhism. All major religions, when understood properly, have the same potential for good.
With the realization of ones own potential and self-confidence in ones ability, one can build a better world. According to my own experience, self-confidence is very important. That sort of confidence is not a blind one; it is an awareness of ones own potential. On that basis, human beings can transform themselves by increasing the good qualities and reducing the negative qualities.
Learning to forgive is much more useful than merely picking up a stone and throwing it at the object of one's anger, the more so when the provocation is extreme. For it is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.
Like anyone else, I too have the potential for violence; I too have anger in me. However, I try to recall that anger is a destructive emotion. I remind myself that scientists now say that anger is bad for our health; it eats into our immune system. So, anger destroys our peace of mind and our physical health. We shouldn't welcome it or think of it as natural or as a friend.
It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.
Today we can only hear the voices and witness the imaginations of one-third of the world's people. We are all being robbed of the creativity and potential of the two-thirds of the world not yet online. Tomorrow, if we succeed, the Internet will truly represent everyone.
The children of today will make the India of tomorrow. The way we bring them up will determine the future of the country.
Some regard their ideal with shy humility and would like to deny it: they fear their higher self because, when it speaks, it speaks demandingly.
Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman - a rope over an abyss. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end: what can be loved in man is that he is an overture and a going under.
There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.
When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.
We are, all of us, growing volcanoes that approach the hour of their eruption; but how near or distant that is, nobody knows - not even God.
There's so much stuff that has yet to be invented. There's so much new that's going to happen. People don't have any idea yet how impactful the internet is going to be and that this is still Day 1 in such a big way.
In my view, Amazon's culture is unusually supportive of small businesses with big potential, and I believe that's a source of competitive advantage.
We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we'll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.
Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the lastnugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.
Excellence matters, and technology advances so fast that the potential for improvement is tremendous.
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