#potent

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

#potential #inspirational

In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public. ↗

— Frank Church

#american public #cia #committee #concern #covert

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. ↗

— Jackie Collins

#behind #books #finding #get #just

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God. ↗

— Mary Daly

#creative #god #human #human beings #image

The Staten Island Ferry remains a potential terrorist target. ↗

— Vito Fossella

#island #potential #remains #target #terrorist

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

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#craving #instinctual #mindful #pausing #potential

The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish. ↗

— Samuel Gompers

#economic #economic power #establish #insurance #most

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general. ↗

— Lorraine Hansberry

#exposure #general #her #herself #interesting

What I did was I completed the half-hour film, but before really showing it, I wrote two more sections for a potential feature film which I didn't think would really happen, but at least I had it in case. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#case #completed #did #feature #feature film

By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being. ↗

— Ashley Montagu

#born #development #every #fulfillment #his