Potential Quotes

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. (Leo Buscaglia)
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. View quote
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind. View quote
Rockwell Kent
Every man is a potential genius until he does something. View quote
Herbert Beerbohm Tree
One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great dramatic potential. View quote
V. S. Pritchett
Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen. View quote
Emil Cioran
At electric speed, all forms are pushed to the limits of their potential. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
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. View quote
Maya Angelou
I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential. View quote
Shirley Chisholm
I really believe this team has a lot of potential - whether it's this year or in years to come, I don't know. View quote
Brett Favre
A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general. (Lorraine Hansberry)
Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares. View quote
Peter Ustinov
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. View quote
Barack Obama
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. View quote
Richard Eberhart
Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances. View quote
Iris Chang
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 the these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations. View quote
David Sedaris
Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity. View quote
John Forbes Nash
The bureaucratic method of building an integrated Europe has exhausted its potential. View quote
George Soros
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him. View quote
Viktor Frankl
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. View quote
Bruce Lee
My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have to potential to be the comic stories the next. (Nora Ephron)
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. View quote
Og Mandino
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. View quote
Confucius
I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on. View quote
David Bowie
Actually I think CGI has the potential to equal or even surpass what the human hand can do. View quote
Hayao Miyazaki