Once you’re able to look like an idiot and be OK with it, it opens up your potential.
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.
All I really try and do is live up to my potential and do as well as I possibly could and to bring to the ballpark each and every day a good effort and do the best that I could each and every day.
We removed ‘Russia Today’ from the logo after many colleagues, also from foreign media, told us that it was diminishing our potential audience.
We who work in technology have nurtured an especially rare gift: the opportunity to effect change at an unprecedented scale and rate. Technology, community, and capitalism combine to make Silicon Valley the potential epicenter of vast positive change.
Anytime a large, emergency spending bill makes its way through Congress, the potential for mischief is great.
Film has the potential of allowing me to explore my own ideas, which I find very attractive.
I’m always flattered when someone thinks of me as a potential commissioner of baseball.
Perhaps I’m particularly serious, because I’m not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I’m doing.
We will never know if any other president approached Nixon in paranoia, profanity or potential criminality, since only his conversations were captured, subpoenaed and ultimately released on the front pages of newspapers.
The attacks of September 11 persuaded many Americans that what might seem to be obscure or distant potential threats can very quickly materialize and it therefore makes sense to attend to them even before they become urgent.
And I believe that if we can care about whether or not our neighbor has a good job or access to affordable health care for their children, and we move to implement the policies that can improve these situations, we will unleash vast amounts of human potential and recapture the American spirit.
As a parent, you have to figure out how to shape your kid’s character. You want to have human beings who learn about good character. You have to be able to see your child with clarity, see the good side and the bad side of them, and work on the bad side and make them better so they fulfill their potential.
Haiti is 10.4-million people, of whom 35 per cent are children under 15. The country has always had great potential – and this is still the case. Our ill fortune has long been a matter of bad governance. And now things have changed.
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.
The No. 1 job is to help a player reach their highest potential, and that’s not possible without being able to relate with them. That’s been helpful, and as far as my knowledge base is concerned, that stems from being around great coaches willing to share.
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.
An entrepreneur must pitch a potential investor for what the company is worth as well as sell the dream on how much of a profit can be made.
You have to learn to see the gold in dirt, which means that you try to spot people with potential as well as ideas that have potential.
You can think what you like of Madonna – about her political choices and her PR – but you have to respect her courage not to let the critics stop her exploring her potential.
There are a lot of ‘chicken Christians.’ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.
The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn’t think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.
I had plenty of invites and chances to party when I just started on tour, but I knew partying would prevent me from achieving my surfing potential.
The potential for the abuse of power through digital networks – upon which we the people now depend for nearly everything, including our politics – is one of the most insidious threats to democracy in the Internet age.
I see potential in everything. It’s about opening your mind to what you can do to the garment: because they’re cheap, you can cut them or stitch them, and if you stuff it up, it’s fine – it’s only two dollars.
So if I could just go back now to something which I am sure we should cover here regarding our original scenario: we have, in fact, four ways – four major potential lines of research.
I’ve chosen opportunities where I might fail rather than live in the shadow of my own potential.
I think tapping into one’s power and one’s potential is a very frightening thing.
The Gulf Coast has the potential to create a culinary raw ingredient paradise that smart cooks can capitalize on.
MySpace gives our members the ability to reach such an incredible range of people and have direct contact with them. I’m not sure how that devalues friendship so much as it expands the range of potential friends you can have.
I affirm to you the tremendous potential you have, not beyond anything you could ever imagine.
Those who are seeking ways to tap into the potential of e-mail will find themselves in a position to capitalize on the pending explosion in Internet usage.
But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there’s a potential for other people to understand that a lot of things are possible with a sustained effort and that the broadening of experiences is possible and I think that’s all art can be.
Stop-and-search has the potential to cause immense resentment and honesty to the police, with all the implications that has for generating distrust and ending co-operation from the public, if it is not used fairly.
Nobody has really grasped yet the great wealth that can be made selling data over the Web. There are 100 million potential customers out there.
I never place limits on the potential success of my students. If they’re going into acting, they’re going to win the Oscar… If they’re going into law, they’re going to be chief justice.
I’m the first to admit that I never achieved my potential as an actress.
Bike riding requires permanent sacrifice. It means training 11 months out of 12 and 110 days of racing, whatever the weather conditions. Early in life, I realised I did not have intellectual potential, so I dedicated myself to cycling.
Unfortunately, inner feelings and potential are often stunted by our parents, relatives or peers.
As a scouting department, with the confidence we have in our player development, if a guy has the potential that we think they have and the makeup and they stay healthy, we think they will be a productive Major Leaguer. We take a lot of pride in that.
If you do not train hard you will never fulfill your potential.
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.
Mexico urgently needs a series of structural reforms that will detonate its true economic potential for once and generate more public welfare.
It’s hard to be creative and to see your potential when you’ve not even got ground zero, when you’ve not even got the foundations to be able to express yourself.
Souffles don’t deserve their reputation as potential disasters.
There is lots of enthusiasm among youth of Haryana about sports. They have potential in sports.
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.
Coming to the growth potential in financial services, there is enough data to show that, usually, financial services grow about twice or two and a half times of what the economy, the GDP growth rates.
Networked science has the potential to speed up dramatically the rate of discovery across all of science.
I really believe this team has a lot of potential – whether it’s this year or in years to come, I don’t know.
I want to do my hard dives really well, I want to see what my true potential in this sport really is. I want to grasp that.
There are very few good examples of effective, nurturing leadership that unlocks people’s potential or even enthusiasm.
He is not someone who went off to play in Europe and only a few Americans follow. He has the potential to be on magazine covers and more newspaper coverage.
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.
In 2012, I see the potential for people to come together, huge moments of political and social engagement where elections are part of the strategy for change, but not the end goal and not the only thing that matters.
