Related:

• Poulsen's Prophesy: If anything is used to its full potential, it will break.
• If it ain't broken, you haven't been using it to its full potential.
• A sobering thought, Eileen: What if, right at this very moment I *am* living up to my full potential?
  -- Jane Wagne...
• Prophecy is the wit of a fool. -- Vladimir Nabokov
• The garbage bag full of leaves or wrapping paper or cardboard boxes will never break.
  The garbage bag full of egg shells, coffee grounds, and potato salad will always break....
• At West Point, the cadets had been full of bravado.
  ..But bravado was grounded in ignorance; true courage was possible only after one gained the visceral comprehension that death was the potential price of valor....
• The three laws of thermodynamics: (1) You can't get anything without working for it.
  (2) The most you can accomplish by working is to break even....
• If you can't do anything about it, than have the sense not to.
  If you can do something about it, perhaps it is time to step back and reevaluate your own potential in a less flattering light....
• Anything you say will be distorted and remixed and used against you.