Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
Life has survived for more than three billion years because it is robust, and almost no mutations can easily outwit the defense mechanisms built up through eons of exposure to potential pathogens.
But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.
I try to stop and take a 10-second break and ask myself before I do something: One, is this going to improve my life for my children, or two, will there be a potential for something to go wrong here?
So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.
I have become an American citizen, and I love this country. I think that this country has incredible potential for goodness, an incredible possibility for doing the wrong thing, too.
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.
Most other documents leaked to WikiLeaks do not carry the same explosive potential as candid cables written by American diplomats.
We were all born with the potential to win massively, but you must still play your cards right in order to inevitably solidify it.
The lack of limitless positive imagination has undoubtedly led many people with great potential to settle for a mediocre state of living.
if one is unfamiliar with the infinite power of the subconscious mind, then one is absolutely far from living up to one's true potential in life.
God has already elevated your true potential on earth. So isn't it time for you to start dreaming a little bigger?
I don't know what they see and say about you, but what I see and believe in you is a strong potential to manifest a life of greatness.
As long as you are still breathing, you definitely haven't reached your highest potential on earth. Always challenge yourself to do better.
Mexico urgently needs a series of structural reforms that will detonate its true economic potential for once and generate more public welfare.
Mexico urgently needs a series of structural reforms that will detonate its true economic potential and generate more public welfare.
I see Intershop as a leader in the E-commerce digital economy and believe the company has truly long-term potential.
Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe, and has the potential to become an inexpensive source of energy for neighborhoods, light and heavy duty vehicles, and industry.
Tourism in India has the potential to promote faster, sustainable and more inclusive growth. It could be used as a powerful antidote to tackle poverty.
Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's the choices we make that define who we really are.
Sometimes we are so caught up in the disappointment of plans gone astray that we fail to recognize the potentially new options that might now exist.
