Famous quotes containing the words potential and/or difference:
“A child is born with the potential ability to learn Chinese or Swahili, play a kazoo, climb a tree, make a strudel or a birdhouse, take pleasure in finding the coordinates of a star. Genetic inheritance determines a child’s abilities and weaknesses. But those who raise a child call forth from that matrix the traits and talents they consider important.”
—Emilie Buchwald (20th century)
“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is the difference between the lightning- bug and the lightning.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)