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In a battery, I strive to maximize electrical potential. When mentoring, I strive to maximize human potential. -- Donald Sadoway
Martial arts are a vehicle for developing your human potential. -- Joe Rogan
Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential. -- Victor Ponta
Forty thousand years of evolution and we've barely even tapped the vastness of human potential. -- David Koepp
We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love. -- Jane Goodall
By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God. -- Gloria Steinem
A fully blossomed human potential is enlightenment. It is becoming a child again, and coming back to your original nature. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Through using our memory to its fullest we can unlock the vast reservoir of human potential that isn't currently being used. -- Tony Buzan
Education should no longer be most imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human potentialities. -- Maria Montessori
The five principles of aloha, when practiced together, awaken our awareness of our human potential and the sacredness of our life. -- Paul Pearsall
Utopias have their value -- nothing so wonderfully expands the imaginative horizons of human potentialities -- but as guides to conduct they can prove literally fatal. -- Isaiah Berlin
Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? ...a good question might be not why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate? -- Abraham Maslow
From a leader's perspective, the most serious betrayal has to do with thwarting human potential, with quenching the spirit, with failing to deal equitably with each other as human beings. -- Max de Pree
There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it. -- Andrew Schneider
.. if all the information of the cosmos flows through our pores at every moment, then our current notion of our human potential is only a glimmer of what it should be. -- Lynne McTaggart
The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit. -- Jim Rohn
I got fed up with the human race, really. I got a very negative feeling about human potentials. And for a while, I thought I might write a book without any human beings in it whatsoever. -- Michel Faber
No one culture has ever developed all human potentialities; it has always selected certain capacities, mental and emotional and moral, and stifled others. Each culture is a system of values which may well complement the values in another. -- Ruth Benedict
I believe that if an individual is not on the path to transcending his society and seeing in what way it furthers or impedes the development of human potential, he cannot enter into intimate contact with his humanity. -- Erich Fromm
Every economic...acti on must set about providing each inhabitant of the planet with the minimum wherewithal to live in dignity and freedom, with the possibility of supporting a family, educating children, praising God and developing one's own human potential. -- Pope Francis
For neo-conservatism is a quintessentially Jewish project: a re-sanctification in everyday life of the core values of western civilisation, and the achievement of human potential through virtuous practice. The neo-cons' crucial insight is that public signals through law, custom and tradition are the key to getting people to behave well. And that is a Jewish insight. -- Melanie Phillips
Fear clogged human potential. -- Toba Beta
Fear and self-doubt have always been the greatest enemies of human potential. -- Brian Tracy
The government is a giant logjam in the eternal river of human potential. -- Stefan Molyneux
It is a belief in human potential that has guided me through my time in Government. -- Michael Gove
Education and the workforce: I think these two things go together in terms of human potential. -- L. Todd Rose
Many older women are inhibited and afraid to act. It is such a waste of human potential. -- Frances Lear
The worship of convention has never yet led to astonishment and a joyous leap in human potential. -- Tama J. Kieves
One of the greatest inhibitions to the development of human potential is the aversion to effective practice. -- Douglas B. Reeves
When education and resources are available to all without a price tag, there will be no limit to the human potential. -- Jacque Fresco
How well that human potential has been fulfilled over the years by people with a deep and abiding connection to Pennsylvania. -- William Schreyer
The victim mindset dilutes the human potential. By not accepting personal responsibility for our circumstances, we greatly reduce our power to change them. -- Steve Maraboli
Reclaiming the parts of ourselves that we have relegated to the shadow is the most reliable path to actualizing all of our human potential. -- Debbie Ford
When you stifle human potential, when you don't invest in new ideas, it doesn't just cut off the people who are affected. It hurts us all. -- William J. Clinton
This loving person is a person who abhors waste-waste of time, waste of human potential. How much time we waste. As if we were going to live forever. -- Leo Buscaglia
Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential. -- Willard Gaylin
There are genocidal tendencies that are at the heart of the human potential, and I think if we don't talk about it, we're not preparing ourselves for a better future. -- Laszlo Nemes
There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it -- Andrew Schneider
At the end of the day, life's about realising one's human potential. I don't know if I've realised mine, but I've certainly gone a long way towards realising some goals and some dreams. -- Linton Kwesi Johnson
For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one's predicament into a human achievement. -- Viktor E. Frankl
Women have for centuries been recognized as talented listeners, nurturers, motivators, excellent communicators. These very qualities that we once were told were unbusinesslike are precisely the qualities that business needs most to tap human potential. -- Mary Cunningham Agee
Ending poverty calls for humility, honesty, freedom from ideology and refusal to accept cruel simplicities about anyone's human potential. It requires listening to the wisdom and cutting the nonsense from both the Right and the Left. -- Donella Meadows
In the Christian perspective, the love of God and of all other human beings invites us to share and enjoy not just the best of the human potential as it evolves, but participation in the divine life itself. -- Thomas Keating
I think cities are the primordial forests of our time. We evolve faster as a species in cities. Cities are chaotic, liminal places where the many aspects of human potential, good and/or bad, are most readily magnified. -- Chris Abani
I think the wonderment of seeing my two sons developing makes me incredibly optimistic about human potential. It makes you think: 'My goodness. It's a miracle that's going on here. What could the human race do together?' -- David Miliband
Chicago is not a bad place to live. But the usual story of immigration is the happy fulfillment of human potential in America that is not available anywhere else - it's propaganda, really. It's more complicated than that. -- Aleksandar Hemon
"I think the wonderment of seeing my two sons developing makes me incredibly optimistic about human potential. It makes you think: 'My goodness. It's a miracle that's going on here. What could the human race do together?"' -- David Miliband
If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse gift will find a fitting place -- Margaret Mead
If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place. -- Margaret Mead
Many people think that discipline is the essence of parenting. But that isn't parenting. Parenting is not telling your child what to do when he or she misbehaves. Parenting is providing the conditions in which a child can realize his or her full human potential. -- Gordon Neufeld
It can be fairly argued that the highest priority for mankind is to save itself from extinction. However, it can also be argued th at a society that neglects its children and robs them of their human potential can extinguish itself without an external enemy. -- Selma Fraiberg
The three touchstones that woke Buddha up - sickness, old age, and death - are a pretty good place to start when crafting a tragic tale. And if we need to get more specific: heartbreak, destruction, miscomprehension, natural disasters, betrayal, and the waste of human potential. -- Paul Di Filippo
Destructive criticism is the biggest single enemy of human potential. It is worse than cancer or heart disease. While those diseases can ultimately lead to the deterioration and death of an individual, destructive criticism kills the soul of the person but leaves the body walking around. -- Brian Tracy
The older I get, the more determined I feel to do whatever I can to help release that human potential somehow. Not in a fluffy way nor in a hardcore way. But in that middle ground, that marriage of love and power. I'm not afraid of either. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
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. -- Tim Ryan
Our nation was created in ways that allow human potential to prosper, and it created the greatest nation for people in the history of humanity. Now Obama is dismantling it, because he has no appreciation for our greatness. In fact, he resents it. He blames this country for whatever evils he sees around the world. -- Rush Limbaugh
White people are potential humans - they haven't evolved yet. -- Louis Farrakhan
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive. -- Margaret Mead
Human potential is the only limitless resource we have in this world. -- Carly Fiorina
Egypt has great potential because of the latent power of its human capital. -- Ahmed Zewail
Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness. -- Thomas Mann
It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God. -- Mary Daly
Human potential, though not always apparent, is there waiting to be discovered and invited forth. -- William Watson Purkey
Human potential is the same for all. If you have will power, then you can change anything. -- Dalai Lama
Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon. -- Richard John Neuhaus
Most corporations have human-resources processes that involve discussions with your manager, performance evaluations, calibrations for performance and potential succession planning. -- Denise Morrison
You have to see the human being in the enemy. If there is potential for change, there is still hope. -- Deborah Ellis
The truth is that humans have the potential to be horrific. And I think being conscious of that is important. -- Andie MacDowell
And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words? -- Henry Miller
I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties. -- Princess Diana
One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man. -- John Berger
Jesus was a human being who, while on Earth, completely self-actualized and fulfilled in all ways the potential glory that lies within us all. -- Marianne Williamson
I believe that we all have the potential to love any human being, and that just love who you wish and celebrate it the best you can. -- Kathy Najimy
We don't like admitting this, but it is a key component of human existence: the fact that life has the potential for things both wondrous and horrific. -- Douglas Kennedy
Human potential is the same for all. Your feeling, "I am of no value", is wrong. Absolutely wrong. You are deceiving yourself. We all have the power of thought- so what are you lacking? If you have willpower, then you can change anything. It is usually said that you are your own master. -- Dalai Lama
Every human being has the potential for greatness. -- Robert Foster Bennett
Education unlocks the greatest potential of the human mind. -- Debasish Mridha M.D.
There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Even potential human life needs to be treated with great respect. -- Tony Abbott
Nothing carries more potential for change than individual acts of human kindness. -- Jamie Winship
We are human, which means we have the potential to make things different. -- Gary Chapman
Make a strong commitment to reach your full potential as a human being. -- Nido R Qubein
Where you are born should not dictate your potential as a human being. -- Romeo Dallaire
Where you are born should not dictate your potential as a human being. -- Romeo Dallaire
Never underestimate the potential for human stupidity when wealth and power are at stake. -- Raymond E. Feist
Every human being has creative powers. You were born to create. Appreciate your inborn potential. -- Nita Leland
For the sort of potential that a human being carries, it is a very brief life. -- Jaggi Vasudev
The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
...poor people are just as human as anyone else. They have just as much potential as anyone. -- Muhammad Yunus
Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted... -- Carl Jung
Despite all philosophical differences, all major world religions have the same potential to create good human beings. -- Dalai Lama
We shouldn't be willy-nilly creating potential human life just to satisfy the urges of the scientific community. -- Tony Abbott
Actually I think CGI has the potential to equal or even surpass what the human hand can do. -- Hayao Miyazaki
The widest thing in the universe is not space, it is the potential capacity of the human heart -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
I always believed in love, compassion, and a sense of universal respect. Every human being has that potential. -- Dalai Lama
Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius. -- Michael J. Gelb
Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual. -- Al-Ghazali
Most human beings only scratch the surface of their real potential. They have no idea what they're capable of. -- Peace Pilgrim
Wings are not only for birds; they are also for minds. Human potential stops at some point somewhere beyond infinity. -- Toller Cranston
Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin. -- Albert Camus
The individual leads in order that those who are led can develop their potential as human beings and thereby prosper. -- Socrates
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I love Superman. Because he represents the hero with 1,000 faces. And the potential that lies in every human on this planet. -- RuPaul
The early development of the human brain is extremely important for setting the table, if you will, for potential future accomplishment. -- Dannel Malloy
I believe each human being has the potential to change, to transform oneâ??s own attitude, no matter how difficult the situation. -- Dalai Lama
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Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one's full potential as a human being -- Amartya Sen
The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest. -- Barbara M. White
Empathy is really important.. Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our full potential. -- Jane Goodall
If technology does not liberate all people for the pursuit of higher aspirations in human achievement, then all its technical potential will be meaningless. -- Jacque Fresco
The best that can be said about embryonic stem cell research is that it is scientific exploration into the potential benefits of killing human beings. -- Tom DeLay
Creativity is dynamic, it asserts life, frees the human spirit, conquers mental lassitude and illness, and makes real the outrageous potential of the universal imagination. -- Robert Genn
Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential. -- Kofi Annan
We need love - an awesome love grounded in the evolutionary potential for life on Earth - to become the organizing principle for human society. -- Marianne Williamson
We don't forget that we are Christians. We forget that we are human, and that one oversight alone can debilitate the potential of our future. -- Wayne Cordeiro
The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights; the document is a very tough guardian of that belief. -- Roger Rosenblatt
Quantum physics has found that there is no empty space in the human cell, but it is a teeming, electric-magnet ic field of possibility or potential -- Deepak Chopra
The power of the Plus Factor is potential but it is not self-activating. It is latent in human beings and will remain latent until it is activated. -- Norman Vincent Peale
I'd so much rather have exciting architecture that causes one to stop, breathe, and reflect on the potential of the human mind, the craft, and exploring things. -- William McDonough

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