#potential

To maximize our potential to enhance our health and our knowledge, we should remain open to new understanding and evolving technology or resources that might inspire a change in our approach to these important questions. ↗

— Samuel Wilson

#change #enhance #evolving #health #important

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. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#complex #consequences #fact #foreign #foreign policy

Lenders look at potential borrowers from many angles before extending credit: How much of its income will a household need to put into debt repayment? How large is the down payment? Does the borrower have a job with a stable income? What is the borrower's credit score? ↗

— Mark Zandi

#before #borrower #borrowers #credit #debt

Potential home buyers have a two-step decision process. First, they determine whether they can afford to make a purchase - does their income safely cover their mortgage payment? Then they determine whether owning is a better financial choice than renting - are the costs of owning a home lower than the cost of renting it? ↗

— Mark Zandi

#better #buyers #choice #cost #costs

He would catapult you forward, and that was his intention with the Jazz Messengers. He would take young people with a potential and help them develop a voice as a player and as a writer. ↗

— Benny Green

#forward #help #his #intention #jazz

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. ↗

— Daniel Greenberg

#computers #discovery #finding #friends #home

It's been said that Bill Gates has come up with something that'll be released in December that's gonna put a lid on counterfeiting. If that's a fact then it's really interesting to own your own product - with all the potential methods of downloading. ↗

— Merle Haggard

#bill #bill gates #come #december #downloading

There comes a moment in every life when the Universe presents you with an opportunity to rise to your potential. An open door that only requires the heart to walk through, seize it and hang on. The choice is never simple. It’s never easy. It’s not supposed to be. But those who travel this path have always looked back and realized that the test was always about the heart. ...The rest is just practice. ↗

— Jaime Buckley

#opportunity #potential #practice #life

None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#interplay #know #none #population #potentialities

For me, the risks in terms of opening that brewpub were fairly high. I put my house up as collateral, I invested the liquid money I had and two years of my time to get it over, but that's really not much of a risk for what the potential reward was if it worked. ↗

— John Hickenlooper

#fairly #get #had #high #house