Potential Quotes

The potential for Home Star to create jobs is proven and real. In Vermont, our statewide energy efficiency utility, Efficiency Vermont, created more than 430 jobs in 2007 and 2008, generating more than $40 million in income.

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.

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

I believe that we all have the potential to love any human being, and that genetics, upbringing, choice, social conditioning and environment play a major part in which way we sway.

White people are potential humans - they haven't evolved yet.

Federer can be the best ever; he has the potential. The only question is whether he has the desire.

I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen.

Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a tape of a later one, and it's fun.

There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.

In fact, the place where we have indicted more terrorists or potential terrorists, is our Northern border.

If you look at my career, I've never gone to a team that had fulfilled their potential.

Eventually, the state's funding covered only the stages leading to presenting a film project to potential funding bodies. It was enough to produce a script, indicate casting and put together a budget to present it all, but nothing beyond that.

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.

I've spent over 25 years in the television industry, the direct response industry. I met a lot of people and certainly learned the power of commercials and their brand building potential.

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.

I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential.

The Staten Island Ferry remains a potential terrorist target.

Anytime a large, emergency spending bill makes its way through Congress, the potential for mischief is great.

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.

Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.

Anybody who has stood on the prairie in North Dakota has felt the force of the wind and knows that our state has an inexhaustible supply of wind power. The potential here to create jobs and draw millions of dollars in new investment to North Dakota is enormous.

I think comics have far more potential than a lot of people realize.

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

We're going to break a story that there are people on the staff on the 9-11 Commission that didn't want the 9-11 Commissioners to know the details of Able Danger because of the potential to embarrass those commissioners.

For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them.

I can always grow a little bit, and try to do something different. So I'm always looking for what's out there - the potential.

I believe Business Objects is on the cusp of becoming a multi-billion-dollar sales company. There is tremendous growth potential for business intelligence.

Obviously, SNL has a lot of viewers, but the potential for a movie is through the roof.

Kids are finding out about the potential for discovery online from other sources; many of them have computers at home, for instance, or their friends have them.

When I teach and meet a class for the first time, you realize that there are people there that have exceptional abilities or have the potential to do exceptional things and you never know who those people are. My job is to provide the best information I can.