Potential Quotes - page 6

It seems an obvious thing to say, but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists, just as we should not imagine that you Americans are all undercover assassins. (Mohsin Hamid)
Back when I was on my first assignment as a seeker, I was way out in Arizona. Brought in this kid named Clarisse.” "Clarisse?” "Sibling of yours,” Hedge said. "Ares kid. Violent. Rude. Lots of potential. View quote
Rick Riordan
It does kids no favors, and sets them up for a potential lifetime of poor health and social embarrassment, to excuse them from family meals of real food. Everyone benefits from healthy eating, but it is particularly crucial at the beginning of life. View quote
Andrew Weil
To be clear, I worry as much about the impact of the Internet as anyone else. I worry about shortening attention spans, the physical cost of sedentary 'surfing' and the potential for coarsening discourse as millions of web pages compete for attention by appealing to our base instincts. View quote
Andrew Weil
If you look at my career, I've never gone to a team that had fulfilled their potential. View quote
Ruud Gullit
Self-leadership is about awareness, tolerance, and not letting your own natural tendencies limit your potential. View quote
Scott Belsky
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. View quote
Suze Orman
For all your long-term investments, such as retirement accounts that you won't touch for at least ten years, you need a mix of stocks and bonds. Stocks offer the best shot at inflation-beating gains. But stocks don't always go up. That's where bonds come into play: They have less upside potential, but they also do not pack the same risk. View quote
Suze Orman
Ultimately, the purpose of magic is to free our potential, not bind us to ideas. View quote
Philip Carr-Gomm
As I see it, we are all connected and share a stake in our collective future. We are all part of a greater picture. I greatly encourage businesswomen everywhere in the world to take personal responsibility, stay connected to their own intuition and unique potential, work hard, deal with reality, but don't give up. View quote
Shari Arison
Many of us are experiencing a phase of change, shedding outdated patterns and liberating ourselves from the old by moving on to the new. The year 2012 is an important one for mankind, a pivotal year. The potential for this exists in the mere fact that the majority of us are yearning for change. (Shari Arison)
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. View quote
Joseph Rotblat
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. View quote
Brad Meltzer
I like learning stuff. The more information you can get about a person or a subject, the more you can pour into a potential project. I made a decision to do different things. I want to do things that have a better chance of being thought of as original. I do everything I can to disrupt my comfort zone. View quote
Brian Grazer
Running toward danger is foolhardy. ... But so is closing your eyes to it. Many perils become less dangerous once you understand their potential hazards. View quote
Brandon Mull
If one fails to develop goals that give meaning to one's existence, if one does not use the mind to it's fullest, then good feelings fulfill just a fraction of the potential we possess. True happiness involves the pursuit of worthy goals. Without dreams, without risks, only a trivial semblance of living can be achieved. View quote
Dan Buettner
Evolution is all about processes that almost never happen. Every birth in every lineage is a potential speciation event, but speciation almost never happens, not once in a million births. Mutation in DNA almost never happens - not once in a trillion copings - but evolution depends on it. Take the set of infrequent accidents - things that almost never happen - and sort them into the happy accidents, the neutral accidents, and the fatal accidents; amplify the effects of the happy accidents - which happens automatically when you have replication and competition - and you get evolution. View quote
Daniel Dennett
Whatever inspires you is an aspect of yourself. Any desire of the heart exists to support you in discovering and manifesting it. If you have an aspiration to be something, it is because you have the potential to manifest the quality you are seeing and the behavior that this quality will bring forth. View quote
Debbie Ford
You just do the best you can and hope people see the potential in it. View quote
David Benioff
Because it is senior year I have begun to see things as potential absences. The things I love will become the things I'll miss. View quote
David Levithan
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. (Alva Myrdal)
You are the male I might have been. You are the potential I had and lost. You are the honor and the strength and the kindness she needs. You'll take care of her. I want you to take care of her. View quote
J.R. Ward
Every great tradition has told you that you were created in the image and the likeness of the creative source. That means that you have God potential and power to create your world. View quote
James Arthur Ray
Whenever people with money have power over people with less money, you have the potential for exploitation. View quote
Jennifer Weiner
I think the majority of police are really good people and really good at their jobs, but that doesn't change the fact that with any interaction I have with them, I'm viewed as a potential threat. View quote
Jordan Peele