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Quotes About Potential

It is a foregone opportunity that we could have a trillion dollars more of income for the United States if we were producing at capacity rather than falling so far short of it.
~ Peter Orszag
The Territory has more than 200 trillion cubic feet of gas: potentially enough gas to power Australia for more than 200 years.
~ Gina Rinehart
Cardi B or Tiffany Haddish from 'Girl's Trip,' I think I could play those two.
~ Chi Chi DeVayne
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.
~ Louis Leakey
Although there's a stigma that you learn only until a certain point, and then you just maintain, for me to learn the triple axel at 24 goes to show that anything's possible.
~ Mirai Nagasu
China is important to the world in that they are a force and on the move. Exposing them to figurative art opens up a potential for artistic expression far greater than anyone would ever have dreamed possible until today. It is this very spirit of the struggle and determination to triumph that inspires creative expression.
~ Richard MacDonald
It was only after I made my Duleep Trophy debut did I think I had a realistic chance to play for India. I scored a double hundred, and I realised that I had the potential to play for my country because I played the best bowlers in the country at that time.
~ Mohammad Azharuddin
Any gifted child can potentially get in real trouble because of the way they are handled.
~ Itzhak Perlman
Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble.
~ Bobby Orr
Almost all human beings have the capacity for empathy. Everyone has the potential to be at least troubled, or feel genuine anguish, about the suffering of other human beings.
~ Owen Jones
Every time I'd get a job, they'd say: 'You'll be good at loading trucks.' I couldn't explain that there was more to me than carrying things.
~ Jason Isbell
Everybody has equal opportunity, and I think that is true for everything.
~ Mukesh Ambani
I guess when you are left on your own, you find your true potential. I remember my father never came to our school even once.
~ Mukesh Ambani
I started making art during high school but thought I lacked the talent to become a true artist.
~ Mickalene Thomas
The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
~ H. G. Wells
With a father who is a fabulous craftsman, I was raised with the fundamental belief that it is only when you personally work with a material with your hands, that you come to understand its true nature, its characteristics, its attributes, and I think - very importantly - its potential.
~ Jonathan Ive
If I've learned one thing as a state leader, it's that California will never fulfill its truest potential if we wait for Washington to change on its own.
~ Kevin de Leon
It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached.
~ Mike Huckabee
I'm a big believer in the notion that our greatest potential lies in our darkest parts. To a certain extent it's only in facing those parts of ourselves that we can truly grow, and I think that's true of all of the characters I've played, certainly in the past few years.
~ Zachary Quinto
I see Intershop as a leader in the E-commerce digital economy and believe the company has truly long-term potential.
~ Eckhard Pfeiffer
Trump has got to, I think, move to a new level. This is no longer the primaries. He's no longer an interesting contender. He is now the potential leader of the United States and he's got to move his game up to the level of being a potential leader.
~ Newt Gingrich
People are tired of being told that this is as good as it gets. They hear in Donald Trump someone who says, 'We can do better.'
~ Mike Pence
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
From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.
~ Aeschylus