Potential

currently unrealized ability

Potential generally refers to a currently unrealized ability. The term is used in a wide variety of fields, from physics to the social sciences to indicate things that are in a state where they are able to change in ways ranging from the simple release of energy by objects to the realization of abilities in people.

One of the oldest university of social sciences.

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  • One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
  • But not the first Illusion, the new earth,
    The march upon the solitary fire,
    The casting of the dice of death and birth
    Against a giant, for a blind desire,
    The stream uncrossed, the promise still untried,
    The metal sleeping in the mountainside.
    • Stephen Vincent Benét, Western Star (1943), prelude, section 3, stanza 6, p. 7–8. The last two lines were quoted by Senator George McGovern in his remarks nominating R. Sargent Shriver as his vice presidential running mate on the Democratic ticket, in a television address from the Capitol (August 5, 1972).
 
The difference that a drama group or a cinema club can make to a small village or a town. It opens people up to ideas, potential about themselves that really, in a way, education often fails to. It's a way of drawing a community together. - Gabriel Byrne.
  • ... ultimately, there's one investment that supersedes all others: Invest in yourself. Address whatever you feel your weaknesses are, and do it now. I was terrified of public speaking when I was young. I couldn't do it. It cost me $100 to take a Dale Carnegie course, and it changed my life. I got so confident about my new ability, I proposed to my wife during the middle of the course. It also helped me sell stocks in Omaha, despite being 21 and looking even younger. Nobody can take away what you've got in yourself—and everybody has potential they haven't used yet. If you can increase your potential 10%, 20% or 30% by enhancing your talents, they can't tax it away. Inflation can't take it from you. You have it the rest of your life.
    • Warren Buffett, (September 20, 2017)"My Greatest Investing Advice And The Investments Everyone Should Make". Forbes.
  • Leadership is all about unlocking the potential in others.
    • Carly Fiorina, Speech on Leadership at University of Maryland (October 10, 2003), broadcast by C-Span.
  • Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
 
I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.--Bill Gates.
  • It's not about charisma and personality, it's about results and products and those very bedrock things that are why people at Apple and outside of Apple are getting more excited about the company and what Apple stands for and what its potential is to contribute to the industry.
 
God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.
  • The method of considering the components of a vector as the first derivatives of a certain function of the coordinates with respect to those coordinates was invented by Laplace ... in his treatment of the theory of attractions. The name of Potential was first given to this function by Green ..., who made it the basis of his theory of electricity. Green's essay was neglected by mathematicians till 1846, and before that time most of its important theorems had been discovered by Gauss, Chasles, Sturm, and Thomson ...
 
Indira Gandhi - Women are not weaker. Read that again. Women are not weaker. They are just as strong, just as resolute, just as creative, and are filled with just as much potential as any man. - Brad Meltzer.
  • Women are not weaker. Read that again. Women are not weaker. They are just as strong, just as resolute, just as creative, and are filled with just as much potential as any man.
  • [I]t’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
    • Barack Obama, Knox College Commencement Address (4 June 2005).
  • I am convinced that our daughters can contribute just as much to society as our sons. Our common prosperity will be advanced by allowing all humanity - men and women - to reach their full potential.
  • I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don't know anything about.
  • The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?
 
Instead of looking outside of ourselves and counting potential enemies, fasting summons us to turn our glance inward, and to take the measure of our greatest challenge: the self, the ego, in our own eyes and as others see us. - Tariq Ramadan.
  • Instead of looking outside of ourselves and counting potential enemies, fasting summons us to turn our glance inward, and to take the measure of our greatest challenge: the self, the ego, in our own eyes and as others see us.
  • We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.
  • All human beings are very creative - full of potential, full of energy... So, money kind of allows them to express it... And if you're successful, you can take more money. You can expand your capacity, reach next level of capacity, and so on.
  • If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a complex affair with the potential for unintended consequences.
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