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 ~
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 ~
Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.
~By Aung San Suu Kyi ~
My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.
~By Ted Olson ~
I think he is an extremely accessible character. In Data there is no potential for cruelty.
~By Brent Spiner ~
As The O.C. started up again, I started to feel myself potentially getting pulled away.
~By Josh Schwartz ~
If you want to treat China as an enemy, you have a much better chance of making them an enemy than if you treat them as a potential friend.
~By Jim Sasser ~
My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.
~By Arthur Ashe ~
We as a people, as a state, and as a community, have too much promise, too much potential, and too much at stake to go any other way than forward. We are too strong in our hearts, too innovative in our minds, and too firm in our beliefs to retreat from our goals.
~By Bill Richardson ~
Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.
~By Thomas Mann ~
Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.
~By Katherine Anne Porter ~
I always look at films as real stories with real people in real situations. That's why I struggle with the whole notion of calling someone the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy,' because I think we all have potential to do good things and all have the potential to do bad things.
~By Guy Pearce ~
It could potentially be a very competitive race.
~By Bill Luther ~
So I think in those circumstances, there's some potential that you could see a big pendulum swing like 1994, which people you thought weren't vulnerable all of the sudden get in trouble.
~By John Podesta ~
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 ~
The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability - that threat is real.
~By Tony Blair ~
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
~By Leo Buscaglia ~
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 ~
I have a high degree of confidence about India's growth potential in IT.
~By Sanjay Kumar ~
With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
~By Dalai Lama ~
Any setting can potentially acquire this vividness. It slowly arrives during the period of research, until it is as immediate to me as my own real surroundings.
~By Rose Tremain ~
Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
~By Ayn Rand ~
I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen.
~By Laura Hillenbrand ~
Before you approach a production entity or even a potential producer, you should write up a treatment and register your show with the Writers Guild of America.
~By Penelope Spheeris ~
If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.
~By Anthony Burgess ~
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 ~
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 ~
What you believe about God has the greatest potential for good or harm in your life.
~By Edwin Louis Cole ~
From another point of view, a new situation now seems to be arising in which Japan's prosperity is going to be incorporated into the expanding potential power of both production and consumption in Asia at large.
~By Kenzaburo Oe ~
We have global interests, potential threats from elsewhere, North Korea, Iran, Taiwan Straits and the like. We must be prepared for any future threat. That is why it is important that this be a transition year, 2006.
~By Ike Skelton ~
If we're gonna win, we have to play up to and beyond our potential. We're capable of doing that.
~By Don Nelson ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 word 'potential' used to hang over me like a cloud.
~By Randy Johnson ~
The federal government has a responsibility to protect all Americans from potential terrorist attack.
~By Bob Etheridge ~
I hope that the institution will succeed in maximizing students' potential in the same way. I will give all of my stock to this institution. It will own the Bose Corporation and be funded by the Bose Corporation.
~By Amar Bose ~
What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.
~By Joseph Campbell ~
Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.
~By Richard John Neuhaus ~
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 ~
What I did was I completed the half-hour film, but before really showing it, I wrote two more sections for a potential feature film which I didn't think would really happen, but at least I had it in case.
~By Jim Jarmusch ~
As the president of Kosovo, I am more concerned about the current situation with the employment standing at around 70 % of the population, which is young, with great potential, speaking many foreign languages and having wide expertise.
~By Ibrahim Rugova ~
I'm pro-life. I'll do all I can to see every baby is created with a future and potential. The legislature should do all it can to protect human life.
~By Sarah Palin ~
I thought we were to discuss a referral which we believe contains substantial and credible information of potential impeachable offenses by the President of the United States.
~By Kenneth Starr ~
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
~By Pope John XXIII ~
As far as advice to potential teenage idols, there is no formula.
~By Bobby Sherman ~
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 ~
I think the potential for man is so enormous, if we can stay alive long enough, we're going to be seeing a lot of what Star Trek is projecting.
~By Brent Spiner ~
War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced.
~By Alva Myrdal ~
We are potentially the most dangerous agency in the country.
~By Louis Freeh ~
The serious problems facing the world today will never be solved until women are able to use their full potential on behalf of themselves, their families, and their global and local communities, as the World Bank and others have discovered.
~By Jenny Shipley ~
The sensors have many potential practical uses - in Government buildings, train carriages, cargo containers, on a soldier's lapel - and are a thousand times cheaper than current sensors that are used for the same purpose.
~By Anne Campbell ~
A black man singing about a blond girl was potential trouble.
~By Charley Pride ~
Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, brain and spinal cord disorders, diabetes, cancer, at least 58 diseases could potentially be cured through stem cell research, diseases that touch every family in America and in the world.
~By Rosa DeLauro ~
Our children are our greatest resource and Head Start grants help them reach their full potential.
~By Christopher Dodd ~
It's important to address young people in the reopening of New Orleans. In rebuilding, let's revisit the potential of American democracy and American glory.
~By Wynton Marsalis ~
The potential elite runner must realize that hard means hard, easy means easy and they must patiently seek out what combinations work for them. They have to learn to be persistent and patient with their training and racing.
~By Frank Shorter ~
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 ~
None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.
~By Vaclav Havel ~
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 ~
Following the creation concept that creation processes differed from preservation processes, it is suggested that God endowed each created kind, at the time of its creation, with potential for vast variety.
~By Walter Lang ~
Adult stem cells have shown great potential and have effectively helped patients. Another alternative is cord-blood stem cells. These are a neglected resource that could be used to treat a diverse body of people.
~By Jim Ryun ~
A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential; a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself.
~By Bo Bennett ~
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 ~
He said this has the potential to be the first broadband killer application, and it has sort of become the truth because obviously it's so bandwidth intensive. I mean, it has been an issue.
~By Shawn Fanning ~
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 ~
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 ~
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.
~By Joseph Rotblat ~
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 ~
If we don't make earnest moves toward real solutions, then each day we move one day closer to revolution and anarchy in this country. This is the sad, and yet potentially joyous, state of America.
~By Louis Farrakhan ~
Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.
~By Wilma Rudolph ~
Every man is a potential genius until he does something.
~By Herbert Beerbohm Tree ~
One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
~By John Berger ~
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 ~
Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country.It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world.
~By Richard Eberhart ~
I think the potential for the program at the risk of sounding self-serving is large, some would say even limitless, so I'm excited about it and I think it can even pass next year.
~By Harold Ford ~
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
~By R. D. Laing ~
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 ~
We think that we have great potential but never reach it.
~By Josh Silver ~
He was very concerned about his children potentially being kidnapped or attached, and that's why they were covered up. When he went to Berlin zoo, there were 200 photographers.
~By Martin Bashir ~
It does not make sense that we are allowing known potential weapons, not unlike those the 9-11 hijackers used to overcome the crews of four airplanes, to be taken aboard passenger aircraft.
~By Dave Reichert ~
The first thing I feel like we have the potential to do is to deliver to consumers more roots to their home.
~By Michael K. Powell ~
Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error.
~By Keith Henson ~
Space offers extraordinary potential for commerce and adventure, for new innovations and new tests of will. As Americans, we can't help but reach for the stars. It's our nature. It's our destiny.
~By Bill Frist ~
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
~By Og Mandino ~
It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.
~By Mary Daly ~
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
~By Erich Fromm ~
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.
~By Debbie Wasserman Schultz ~
I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.
~By Princess Diana ~
Anybody who has stood on the prairie in North Dakota has felt the force of the wind and knows that our state has an inexhaustible supply of wind power. The potential here to create jobs and draw millions of dollars in new investment to North Dakota is enormous.
~By Kent Conrad ~
The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union.
~By Gerry Adams ~
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 ~
The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future. And if what you see in your future has no hope, it has no potential, then you view the past that brought you to here as not very good.
~By Story Musgrave ~
I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances.
~By Thomas Frank ~
It is the potential for economic growth that provides the basis for the development of countries, for bringing to people essential goods and services, such as water to drink and facilities for healthcare.
~By Lee R. Raymond ~
If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.
~By William James ~
The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments.
~By Donald Rumsfeld ~
We can not underestimate the potential harm North Korea's capabilities can cause for the rest of the world.
~By Zach Wamp ~
After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.
~By David Sedaris ~
The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible.
~By Ernest Holmes ~
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