Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness.
~By Bo Bennett ~
I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics. So forgive me. But I am passionate about this country. I am equally passionate about the potential of the people who live here.
~By Simon Cowell ~
Always sing below your potential.
~By Nellie Melba ~
The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different-to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.
~By John Fischer ~
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.
~By Jennifer Granholm ~
The standard rumor at the time was that Rumsfeld, as chief of staff, had persuaded President Ford to appoint George H.W. Bush as director of Central Intelligence, assuming that that got rid of a potential competitor for the presidency.
~By Bobby R. Inman ~
I think he is an extremely accessible character. In Data there is no potential for cruelty.
~By Brent Spiner ~
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
~By Maya Angelou ~
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
~By Confucius ~
To maximize our potential to enhance our health and our knowledge, we should remain open to new understanding and evolving technology or resources that might inspire a change in our approach to these important questions.
~By Samuel Wilson ~
For only by nurturing the minds and strengthening the values of our children can we give them an opportunity to be full, productive citizens, to reach their God-given potential, and to have good jobs right here in Oklahoma.
~By Brad Henry ~
The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose.
~By Louis Leakey ~
That's the reason some schools of thinking don't rule out a destruction of the Chinese military potential before the situation grows worse than it is today. It's bad enough now.
~By Curtis Lemay ~
He is not someone who went off to play in Europe and only a few Americans follow. He has the potential to be on magazine covers and more newspaper coverage.
~By Lamar Hunt ~
I don't necessarily believe there's a message in the fact that I'm an African-American Republican. I think there is a message that America as a whole, we are now awake. We are looking at a political construct and we're fairly disappointed. I think the message is no matter where you come from in this country, there is great potential.
~By Tim Scott ~
It took the United States until 1920 to give women the franchise and another 40 or 50 years to start utilizing women's potential. How many women of incredible potential did we fail and what achievements were lost to all because we never tapped that potential?
~By James E. Rogers ~
It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
~By Edsger Dijkstra ~
Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.
~By Marilyn Ferguson ~
Irregular contact with doctors means many men fail to receive any preventive care for potentially life-threatening conditions. In addition, when men do seek care, embarrassment can often prevent them from openly discussing health concerns with their physicians.
~By Michael Crapo ~
Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
~By W. Eugene Smith ~
Potentially he could be. He scored the goal four years ago in France against Argentina that was extraordinary.
~By Alan Hansen ~
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
~By Barack Obama ~
The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short.
~By Eleanor Clift ~
So if I could just go back now to something which I am sure we should cover here regarding our original scenario: we have, in fact, four ways - four major potential lines of research.
~By Martin Fleischmann ~
The Staten Island Ferry remains a potential terrorist target.
~By Vito Fossella ~
The decision to go to war is the most important decision that I can make as a representative in Congress. As a veteran, I see any potential military action first through the eyes of the young men and women who volunteered to wear the uniform and would carry out such a mission.
~By Mark Kirk ~
The REM and Nirvana successes don't mean much to me except as a potential distraction for bands who want to cash in on the trend. Don't try to sound like someone else. REM and Nirvana don't sound like anyone else.
~By Greg Ginn ~
The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
~By Harry A. Blackmun ~
And there is no getting away from the fact - and this is a key point of discontent among many who are upset with the health care reform bill is it didn't go far enough. They say why isn't it in place now? Why don't I see some benefits now? All I see is the potential for losing insurance coverage, for premiums going up. That's hurting Obama.
~By Juan Williams ~
People really have to believe in their tax system. They have to believe that there is an equitable distribution of the burden, but there is also an important investment based upon the potential achievements that come from us paying our taxes.
~By Richard Neal ~
I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's a cause for me. When I look back, though, so many of the books I've written are about wives who just couldn't get away.
~By Ann Rule ~
I will continue to push for doubling the strength of the U.S. Border Patrol, and to make sure that every cargo container that enters this nation is screened for radiation and potential weapons of mass destruction.
~By Nick Lampson ~
Even if I don't release it myself, somebody else might hear it and want to record it. When you write a song, it gives it that potential.
~By Smokey Robinson ~
Our nation must manage significant national security challenges over the next several years. We are already facing a potential conflict with Iraq, new challenges on the Korean peninsula, and key decisions in the president's plans to transform the military.
~By Duncan Hunter ~
In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential... it's no different in the financial realm.
~By Suze Orman ~
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
~By Margaret Mead ~
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.
~By Harry S. Truman ~
For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.
~By Lawrence Durrell ~
Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.
~By Thomas Mann ~
As a scouting department, with the confidence we have in our player development, if a guy has the potential that we think they have and the makeup and they stay healthy, we think they will be a productive Major Leaguer. We take a lot of pride in that.
~By Roy Clark ~
I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.
~By Vernor Vinge ~
Alaska has great potential for new oil and gas development.
~By Frank Murkowski ~
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.
~By Alexis Herman ~
Most of the scientific community believes that for the full potential of embryonic stem cell research to be reached, the number of cell lines readily available to scientists must increase.
~By Ron Kind ~
One of the essential elements of government responsibility is to communicate effectively to the American people, especially in time of a potential terrorist attack or a natural disaster.
~By Vito Fossella ~
The election in Iraq clearly demonstrates that Iraqi people are like people everywhere. They desire to create a future in an environment that is safe and allows them to reach their full potential as human beings, whatever that potential may be.
~By John Ensign ~
Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a tape of a later one, and it's fun.
~By Piers Anthony ~
Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.
~By Iris Chang ~
And I think we need a combination of a freeze, potentially, and also we need to sit down with the - with the banking industry and talk to them about ways in which we can help them be able to work those mortgages out, because it's absolutely imperative that we keep people in their homes.
~By Debbie Wasserman Schultz ~
Potentially significant, by the way, because we don't know exactly what's in Matt Cooper's notes, and we don't know - and we don't still know the answer to the crucial question of whether it was Rove or somebody else that revealed Valerie Plame's name to him.
~By Michael Isikoff ~
My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.
~By Nora Ephron ~
Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.
~By Bruce Lee ~
While the President leads his potential adversaries in almost every state, his support is soft. He is seen as honest, sincere, just, and friendly but gets mediocre or relatively poor ratings being competent strong, intelligent, and a forceful leader.
~By Robert Teeter ~
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
That the potential to become Level 5 exists in you and me and the people we work with and that it is then a process or a journey to nurture that seed... in a culture by and large that doesn't reinforce it.
~By James Collins ~
We know that if al Queda or one of these terrorist organizations were to get a weapon of mass destruction from Iraq, that they would have no hesitation about using it to catastrophic consequences; the potential is for hundreds of thousands of casualties.
~By Paul Cellucci ~
It's been said that Bill Gates has come up with something that'll be released in December that's gonna put a lid on counterfeiting. If that's a fact then it's really interesting to own your own product - with all the potential methods of downloading.
~By Merle Haggard ~
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
~By Anne Frank ~
I remember feeling that technology was like trying to draw with your foot. In a ski boot. It was the most indirect way to work imaginable, but the potential had us all excited. I started in stop motion.
~By Chris Wedge ~
Sinn Fein has the potential and capacity to become the vehicle for the attainment of republican objectives.
~By Gerry Adams ~
While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information warfare.
~By Boris Yeltsin ~
Any doctor will admit that any drug can have side effects, and that writing a prescription involves weighing the potential benefits against the risks.
~By Mark Udall ~
If you think the technology is infeasible, you don't worry about what it might do and what its potential is.
~By Ralph Merkle ~
The knee just isn't 100 percent. It's hard to be out there when you know that you can't play at your best and could potentially make it worse.
~By Serena Williams ~
What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That's the only time that those characters become interesting to watch.
~By Jennifer Beals ~
A black man singing about a blond girl was potential trouble.
~By Charley Pride ~
I think comics have far more potential than a lot of people realize.
~By Harvey Pekar ~
I actually think there's a potential, a crazy potential, that network TV could become something valuable and worthwhile, just because of fear on the part of the networks.
~By Bob Odenkirk ~
It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.
~By Paul Wellstone ~
As we explore ways to bring price relief and bolster our country's energy independence, one significant energy source has emerged as a potential solution, hydrogen fuel cells.
~By Dan Lipinski ~
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.
~By Rose Tremain ~
So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.
~By Robert Sternberg ~
Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe, and has the potential to become an inexpensive source of energy for neighborhoods, light and heavy duty vehicles, and industry.
~By Charlie Dent ~
I also rise today in strong support of forward movement on the implementation of health information technology, which has the potential to save the United States billions of dollars in health care costs each year.
~By Russ Carnahan ~
If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.
~By Barbara Bush ~
I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society.
~By Dean Koontz ~
Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.
~By Jessica Savitch ~
The most extreme individuals and factions in Islamic countries are now more motivated than ever to kill Americans, and the number of potential terrorists has greatly expanded.
~By John Olver ~
Federer can be the best ever; he has the potential. The only question is whether he has the desire.
~By Richard Krajicek ~
We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.
~By Barack Obama ~
Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
~By Susan Sontag ~
Once you're able to look like an idiot and be OK with it, it opens up your potential.
~By Nicole Sullivan ~
Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
~By Ashley Smith ~
For the Gulf States, perhaps no forage crop of which the available seed supply is relatively abundant exceeds the velvet bean in potential value. This legume possesses also the ability to make a crop when planted relatively late.
~By David F. Houston ~
It's been all over the press, and schools are deciding to shut it down. We released a public announcement saying that we had some potential solutions that we were working with, and once we had something concrete we would start implementing it and approach schools.
~By Shawn Fanning ~
U.S. journalists I don't think are very courageous. They tend to go along with the government's policy domestically and internationally. To question is seen as being unpatriotic, or potentially subversive.
~By Robert Fisk ~
Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn't done too badly.
~By Alan Dean Foster ~
I will fight in the United States Senate this year to fund a servicing mission to Hubble by 2008, a mission that would potentially increase Hubble's power and efficiency by a factor of 10 and allow us to look back almost to the beginning of the universe.
~By Barbara Mikulski ~
The full potential of labor can be utilized only if there is mobility in labor.
~By Paul Hoffman ~
Stem cells have the potential to be used to treat and better understand some of the world's most deadly and disabling diseases.
~By Mark Udall ~
Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.
~By John Foster Dulles ~
So, through playing with Cop I realized that there is a potentially interested audience out in the world.
~By Jim Coleman ~
We've got a lot of potential on offense. But really potential doesn't mean much if you don't realize it.
~By Brian Griese ~
As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances.
~By Peter Snell ~
I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.
~By David Bowie ~
I love the idea that biodiesel has the potential to support farmers, especially the family farms.
~By Daryl Hannah ~
Unfortunately, inner feelings and potential are often stunted by our parents, relatives or peers.
~By Willie Stargell ~
In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public.
~By Frank Church ~
Illegal immigration is crisis for our country. It is an open door for drugs, criminals, and potential terrorists to enter our country. It is straining our economy, adding costs to our judicial, healthcare, and education systems.
~By Timothy Murphy ~
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