Quotes About Potential

#1. It is a celebration of the fact that we were adopted for a purpose and that adoption is an experience that has the potential of teaching us some of life's richest and deepest lessons. - Author: Sherrie Eldridge

#2. The discovery of streptomycin as a product of a rather obscure group of microorganisms, the actinomycetes, led to the study of these organisms as potential producers of other chemotherapeutic substances. - Author: Selman Waksman

#3. The secret is to believe in your dreams; in your potential that you can be like your star, keep searching, keep believing and don't lose faith in yourself. - Author: Neymar

#4. Theater isn't there to provide answers. Only possibilities. I just ask the questions. But I believe hope comes from the fact that there is a potential for redemption. At the core, that's what matters in the theater I'm attracted to. Do we dare to hope? Do we allow ourselves to hope? - Author: Joe Mantello

#5. You must realize one thing. In every little village in the world there are great potential champions who only need motivation, development and good exercise evaluation. - Author: Arthur Lydiard

#6. I wanted to do London Boulevard because I saw the potential of a story about two people who need each other desperately, who love at first sight, as one does, and above all a story in which no one is what they appear to be. - Author: William Monahan

#7. So give up negative thinking and realize your potential - Author: Sunday Adelaja

#8. Leaders create an environment in which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided. - Author: Elliott Jaques

#9. Perhaps, more importantly, I think that most human beings realise only a fraction of the true potential of their minds, so the spiritual or mystical, the things which remain mysterious or unexplained have always drawn me to include them in any scheme for a novel. - Author: Rose Tremain

#10. Whoever is first to dominate the most important segment of a market with viral potential will be the last mover in the whole market. - Author: Peter Thiel

#11. Education reveals the potential of people and market. - Author: Toba Beta

#12. One of the most terrifying things I fear is not my potential, but how much regret I'll die with should I never use it. - Author: Craig D. Lounsbrough

#13. Your potentialities are a great deal better than anyone ever permitted you to believe. - Author: L. Ron Hubbard

#14. Everything is material for the seed of happiness, if you look into it with inquisitiveness and curiosity. The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment. There always is the potential to create an environment of blame -or one that is conducive to loving-kindness. - Author: Pema Chodron

#15. Great leaders don't just know the sweet spots of their people. They tap into and unchain the infinite potential imprisoned within their people... - Author: Assegid Habtewold

#16. Love was magma, shooting from the Earth. It had the potential to form pillars of rock that would last for a thousand years or plumes of ash that choked the sky. - Author: Diana Peterfreund

#17. In all is built potential for greatness, but not all apply the efforts necessary for manifestation. - Author: Sunday Adelaja

#18. What's life without a little risk? Sometimes you have to gamble to achieve greatness, and it's stupid to let fear of the unknown stop you from achieving your maximum potential. - Author: Jaycee DeLorenzo

#19. I've spent over 25 years in the television industry, the direct response industry. I met a lot of people and certainly learned the power of commercials and their brand building potential. - Author: Kevin Harrington

#20. My dream is to ensure or create a platform for every single kid, a platform that would enable them to level up in their lives and to achieve to their full potential. - Author: Sharad Vivek Sagar

#21. Death is a thief, the grandest perpetrator of larceny of all. It robs the potential of all the things left undone and reimburses the living with bits of memories that, with each day, pass through the fingers like a handful of sand. - Author: Ron Perlman

#22. How you get from an unanticipated football hand-off to potential hospitalization, I have no idea. - Author: Greg Sestero

#23. Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built. - Author: Fernando Pessoa

#24. You won't ever get ahead if you keep feeling sorry for yourself. You must stop all the negative talk and start thinking positive. You have a lot of potential but your life won't change until you change how you think. - Author: Michele Woolley

#25. Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinctive abhorrence of nuclear weapons, and a strong desire to get rid of them. - Author: Joseph Rotblat

#26. You know what talent is? The curse of expectation. As a kid you have to deal with that, beat it somehow. If you can write, you think God put you on earth to blow Shakespeare away. Or if you can paint, maybe you think
I did
that God put you on earth to blow your father away. - Author: Stephen King

#27. There is no reason why, with the huge potential for market out there in the world for fuel-efficient vehicles, we can't be the cutting edge for change. - Author: Jennifer Granholm

#28. The more energy taken, the less energy that is left for us to implement our goals and the smaller the probability of realization of our innate potential - Author: Sunday Adelaja

#29. We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries. - Author: Harry S. Truman

#30. We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever. - Author: Michelle Bachelet

#31. The early development of the human brain is extremely important for setting the table, if you will, for potential future accomplishment. - Author: Dannel Malloy

#32. Given as much law as that man will be able to do anything and go anywhere, an the only trace of pessimism left in the human prospect today is a faint flavour that one was born so soon. - Author: H.G.Wells

#33. Women are not weaker. Read that again. Women are not weaker. They are just as strong, just as resolute, just as creative, and are filled with just as much potential as any man. - Author: Brad Meltzer

#34. Knowledge is only potential power. For the power to be manifested, it must be applied. Most people know what they should do in any given situation, or in their lives, for that matter. The problem is that they don't take daily, consistent action to apply the knowledge and realize their dreams. - Author: Robin S. Sharma

#35. Master of the universe is every man's potential insight, cosmic potential. - Author: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#36. [W]hen the mind is really absent, in that silence, in that unlimited space, your potential starts glowing, radiating, flowering. Suddenly you are full of cherry blossoms, a new presence, a new fragrance. - Author: Rajneesh

#37. I think I'm realising more and more that I've got a job to do and I can't be doing the big nights out and working to my full potential the next day. I feel much better for it. - Author: Johnny Vegas

#38. The group parted happily for the scheduled lunch break, planning to return at 3:00 to look at some potential Yentes and Perchiks, beginning with Bea Arthur. - Author: Alisa Solomon

#39. The potential gains from improved stabilization policies are on the order of hundredths of a percent of consumption, perhaps two orders of magnitude smaller than the potential benefits of available supply-side fiscal reforms. - Author: Robert Lucas Jr.

#40. In each mind resides a potential so potent.
They make us think that we ain't got it. - Author: Wiz Khalifa

#41. I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem. - Author: Marilyn Hacker

#42. The physical fitness of our citizens is a vital prerequisite to America's realization of its full potential as a nation, and to the opportunity of each individual citizen to make full and fruitful use of his capacities. - Author: John F. Kennedy

#43. By opening blockages in the energy pathways and reawakening our innate ability to sense energy flow, we can recover our health and natural balance. When we develop sensitivity to ki, we will be able to reach our body's potential. - Author: Ilchi Lee

#44. No country will reach its full potential if its female citizens do not enjoy full equality. - Author: Helen Clark

#45. Odor carries a great deal of information, including information about a potential mate's age, sex, fertility, identity, emotions, and health. - Author: David Eagleman

#46. Not limiting your beliefs opens pathways to infinite potential. - Author: Steven Redhead

#47. Precipitous creature,' Kruppe muttered, reaching for the mug of wine the man had left behind. 'Ah, look at this,' he said, frowning up at Crokus, 'nigh two-thirds full. A potential waste!' Kruppe drank it down in one swift gulp, then sighed. 'Said potential averted, Dessembrae be praised. - Author: Steven Erikson

#48. Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness. - Author: Thomas Mann

#49. The job of the artist is to make a gesture and really show people what their potential is. It's not about the object, and it's not about the image; it's about the viewer. That's where the art happens. - Author: Jeff Koons

#50. Only the Army conducts an annual assessment, and they appear to do relatively little to analyze the problem, contributions to the problem, and potential solutions. - Author: Carter F. Smith

#51. Each day is filled with promise, potential and possibility. - Author: Tony Curl

#52. It's true that nothing has the potential to hurt so much as loving someone, but nothing heals like it either. - Author: Emily Henry

#53. Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's the choices we make that define who we really are. - Author: Charles De Lint

#54. Write yourself a permission slip to be surprised by someone's potential. Who knows? One day that person could be you. - Author: Sherri Shepherd

#55. If women's choices - such as taking time off to rear children - make them less productive in the economy, does adolescent boys' behavior in school make them even less so, because they are missing the educational potential of their formative years? - Author: Sendhil Mullainathan

#56. The latent potential within your spouse in his or her areas of insecurity may await your encouraging words. - Author: Gary Chapman

#57. She knocked and waited, because when the door was opened from within, it had the potential to lead someplace quite different. - Author: Laini Taylor

#58. Wind has the potential to produce many, many more jobs per kilowatt hour than coal. But the coal industry has tremendous political clout on Capitol Hill because of its alliance with the railroads and coal-burning utilities. - Author: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

#59. Leadership is all about unlocking the potential in others - Author: Carly Fiorina

#60. You will eventually face a greater truth, willingly or unwillingly. Those who willingly choose to see a greater truth now are given potential freedom through enlightenment, while those who choose to blind themselves are resigned to slavery through ignorance. - Author: Derek Doepker

#61. Any barrier, I had learned
even a potential one
was best breached by pretending urgency. - Author: Alan Bradley

#62. This life is your canvas; what will you make it? - Author: Jayce O'Neal

#63. The fate of the world rests on this one thing: our capacity to actualize our spiritual potential, and quickly. - Author: Marianne Williamson

#64. We all have the potential to do terrible things. But we also have the potential to overcome our mistakes. - Author: Veronica Rossi

#65. The acquisition of a book signalled not just the potential acquisition of knowledge but also something like the property rights to a piece of ground: the knowledge became a visitable place. - Author: James Wood

#66. A salary does not make a person rich, but only gives him the opportunity to take care of his
needs. It is not a means of becoming wealthy. It is a means of fulfilling our potential. - Author: Sunday Adelaja

#67. You want something you can't have, Gurgeh. You enjoy your life in the Culture, but it can't provide you with sufficient threats; the true gambler needs the excitement of potential loss, even ruin, to feel wholly alive. - Author: Anonymous

#68. History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. To keep the peace, we and our allies must be strong enough to convince any potential aggressor that war could bring no benefit, only disaster. - Author: Ronald Reagan

#69. Thanks to iCloud and other services, the choice of a phone or tablet today may lock a consumer into a branded silo, making it hard for him or her to do what Apple long importuned potential customers to do: switch. - Author: Jonathan Zittrain

#70. There is that gnawing feeling that we are far more than what we believe ourselves to be. Maybe it's time to believe the gnawing. - Author: Craig D. Lounsbrough

#71. The worship of convention has never yet led to astonishment and a joyous leap in human potential. - Author: Tama J. Kieves

#72. The obsession with instant gratification blinds us from our long-term potential. - Author: Mike Dooley

#73. Without organization and leadership toward a realistic goal, there is no chance of realizing more than a small percentage of your potential. - Author: John Wooden

#74. Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate. - Author: Alexis Herman

#75. Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen. - Author: Emile M. Cioran

#76. We think that boxes take everything that's bad and they lock all that nasty stuff out, when in reality they take everything that we are and they lock all of those great things in. - Author: Craig D. Lounsbrough

#77. The position I took at the time was that we hadn't really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms. - Author: Jeremy Rifkin

#78. Those who are seeking ways to tap into the potential of e-mail will find themselves in a position to capitalize on the pending explosion in Internet usage. - Author: Alexander Haig

#79. The only limits on your life are those that you set yourself. When you dare to get out of your circle of comfort and explore the unknown, you start to liberate your true human potential. - Author: Robin S. Sharma

#80. Write it on your heart you are the most beautiful soul of the Universe. Realize it, honor it and celebrate the life. - Author: Amit Ray

#81. It also has potential to cause problems to individuals who had nothing to do with the terrorism issue. - Author: Marty Natalegawa

#82. All it can see in an original idea is potential change, and hence an invasion of its prerogatives. The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. - Author: H.L. Mencken

#83. Continue on the right path. You have potential ... Don't give up. Don't let yourself get down and quit studying or fighting for what you want. One day something good is bound to happen. You just have to keep at it. - Author: Isabela Pamelli Martins

#84. Curses are our conscious choices, so is grace," said Rama. Every error is an invitation to see our reality better, to realise where our consciousness is and where it can be. When we refuse to reach out to the potential of our consciousness, a curse befalls us. - Author: Tomichan Matheikal

#85. Celebrate your life now, as it unfolds.
Turn away from judgement and negative theories about your worth, your potential, and your destiny. See what you already have. - Author: Danny Gregory

#86. It's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential. - Author: Barack Obama

#87. That's the great thing about incubating something on the web: you have the potential to go to other platforms. Every single platform has a different audience that you find. - Author: Felicia Day

#88. You are your father's daughter,' he said, the skin around his eyes tightening. 'Trent is his father's son. Apart, you are annoying. Together ... you have the potential to be a problem. - Author: Kim Harrison

#89. A woman holds dreadful power over a man who is in love with her but she should realize that the quality and force of his love is the index of his potential contempt and hatred. - Author: John Steinbeck

#90. Your perspective is vital to your happiness. Some, blind to the bountiful opportunities around them, live lives of sadness and despair with brief moments of joy. Be alive to the abundant potential that surrounds you so that you live a life of peace and happiness with periods of challenging growth. - Author: Richard G. Scott

#91. Wiggy & I were drug buddies. There is no tighter compact for friendship. There is no greater potential for deceit. - Author: Pete Townshend

#92. The reason I entered politics was a belief that the people of this country - having achieved so much that was good and noble in our past - had the potential to do amazing things in the future. - Author: Michael Gove

#93. There is a great potential in everyone. - Author: Lailah Gifty Akita

#94. If you're the type of person who wants to associate exclusively with those who perfectly mirror your own ethical worldview, you're reducing significantly the scope of your potential life experience. - Author: Chuck Klosterman

#95. Even though I don't agree with either Sarah Palin or Michele Bachmann on virtually anything, I do think the unique scrutiny - because of their gender and highlighting the potential conflict between them is a product of the media's desire for juicy storylines. I think it's inappropriate. - Author: Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#96. In economics, when you put together a highly elastic thing and a highly inelastic thing, you create extraordinary potential for turbulence, volatility, and for unstable prices. - Author: Adair Turner

#97. Ignoring intuition to follow some course in life always has the potential for regrets. - Author: Steven Redhead

#98. I work to create systems that can accurately detect pandemics early, determine their likely importance, and, with any luck, crush those that have the potential to devastate us. - Author: Nathan Wolfe

#99. Coaching is one of the most effective leadership styles that can transform, empower and unlock people's potential. Ask more, advice less, elevate your impact forever. - Author: Farshad Asl

#100. A lot of web companies will take a short-term approach and sell to an incumbent and don't end up living up to their full potential. - Author: Jonah Peretti