Buried deep within you…is the potential to make yourself a better man. And that is what it is to be human. To make yourself more than you are. – Capt. Jean-Luc Picard Star Trek: Nemesis (2002 Film).
Most of us make up our minds in the first three minutes of meeting someone whether there’s a potential for a relationship. – Helen Fisher
Regional clustering of specific cancer types triggered some investigations on a potential role of infectious agents in these malignant proliferations. – Harald zur Hausen
I believe that this cooperation between Nokia and Konami will form the perfect match to share the vast potential of mobile entertainment content with users all around the world. – Hideo Kojima
There are records that, in my opinion, only reach their full potential when the listener is disoriented. – Henry Rollins
And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words? – Henry Miller
Anyone with a smart phone is a potential eyewitness cameraman capturing and transmitting stories at speeds that turn Reuter photos and traditional reporting into, well… yesterday’s news. – Harvey Fierstein
President Trump will release America’s pent-up energy potential, get rid of foreign oil, trash punitive regulations, create millions of jobs, and develop our most strategic geopolitical weapon: crude oil. – Harold Hamm
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. – Harold Ford, Jr.
I am very proud to be an American. This country has so much potential, I’d just like to see things better, or whatever, and I think it will be. – Hank Aaron
I say ‘date potential.’ The reason why is no matter who you date, anyway, five years from now, you’re going to be different, and he’s going to be different. The key is to really find somebody that you can grow with that you can change with, evolve with and that you can be partners with. – Hill Harper
I really like reaching out and seeing the audience – they’re potential audiences! And on occasion I can make them excited about going to the theater again, if they’ve ceased or gone less. – Harold Prince
An experienced slush-pile reader doesn’t need more than a few seconds to see if a story has potential. You don’t need to eat all of a rotten egg to determine that it’s rotten. – Gardner Dozois
I always dreamed of going to the Olympics. To be going to the Games in your own country is another thing; to do it as a potential medallist is another thing again. – Hannah Mills
Some people have said that I can ‘hear’ a hit song, meaning that I can tell the first time a song is played for me if it has potential. I have been able to hear some of the hits that way, but I can also ‘feel’ one. – Glen Campbell
I’m very confident that the solutions that we are developing are going to be effective not only in application in Iraq, but also will be very helpful for potential homeland security situations as well. – Geoff Davis
I met with amnesiacs and savants, educators and scientists, to try to understand what memory is, why it works, why it sometimes doesn’t, and what its potential might be. – Joshua Foer
If you opened up every single potential drilling opportunity in the United States, it would have the effect of lowering gas prices three cents, maybe. And that’s because, of course, oil is traded on a global market. – Jennifer Granholm
One day we will have more inflation, and our bonds will bleed like a pig. The only reason for buying long bonds is short-term or as a desperate haven for terrorized investors. But the potential to make longer-term real money is naught. – Jeremy Grantham
If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God. – Joel Osteen
All of my books have the potential to become movies, it’s just a question of finding a studio who wants to get behind me and put up the money to make the movie. – Jackie Collins
Valuations are actually quite simple to grasp. A company is only worth what two acquirers are willing to pay for it. Don’t you just need to find that one buyer? If there is only one potential company interested in buying your startup, chances are you won’t be hearing the word ‘billion’ in the offer. – Jay Samit
By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation: those of the politician, the salesman or the charlatan… In other words, it forfeits its own evolutionary potential. – Joseph Brodsky
With ‘Insidious 2,’ I wanted to push a potential franchise in the direction I thought it should go in. – James Wan
I’ve found that nurturing untapped potential is far more exhilarating than finding someone who has already peaked. – Jason Fried
Except that awards are competitive, which is a negative thing, they are wonderful for singling out deserving individuals and bringing their work to the attention of many potential readers who might otherwise have been totally unaware of them. – Joyce Carol Oates
Even moderates, they can see in Trump the potential to have logjams broken and things finally get done. This makes some conservatives and some liberals furious, nervous, and me nervous a little bit, because I’m a pretty pure conservative. So that’s a potential of his leadership. – Jeff Sessions
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. – Joseph Rotblat