Top 1200 Human Potential Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever recurring song of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever rising tides of revenge. Man has never risen above the injunction of the lex talionis: "Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot." In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path.

I've got world championship potential; I'm out there to be the best fighter I can be.

The Staten Island Ferry remains a potential terrorist target.

The key is to service a market that has not been serviced to its full potential.

Europe has the potential to pioneer and supply a sustainable worldwide economy.

Many feel discouraged because they have not measured up to their potential.

People know that both my parents were shrinks so I was sort of raised in an atmosphere where there was that interest in the human mechanism and the human psyche and what makes people tick. And yes, I think I'm particularly creative and adventurous and improvisational and spontaneous in my inner impulses and patterns and deeply curious and appetized in the unfathomably mysterious and delicious phenomena that is the human being and who we really are.

There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.

The camera has a mind of its own--its own point of view. Then the human bearer of time stumbles into the camera's gaze--the camera's domain of pristine space hitherto untraversed is now contaminated by human temporality. Intrusion occurs, but the camera remains transfixed by its object. It doesn't care. The camera has no human fears.

What can the redwoods tell us about ourselves? Well, I think they can tell us something about human time. The flickering, transitory quality of human time and the brevity of human life - the necessity to love.

Some people ask, 'Why the word 'feminist'? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?' Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general - but to choose to use the vague expression 'human rights' is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender.

I feel I have the potential to reach an audience beyond anything I can imagine.

We've got to temper anything we say with that. On the other hand, you've got to be serious about what you do. And you've got to understand the price you pay for frivolity or just for greed - it's a very high price, especially if you're involved in this sacred material, which is about the human heart and human desire and human tragedy.

In today's world, human beings are dying and human machines are taking birth.

And people who believe in God think God has put human beings on earth because they think human beings are the best animal, but human beings are just an animal and they will evolve into another animal, and that animal will be cleverer and it will put human beings into a zoo, like we put chimpanzees and gorillas into a zoo. Or human beings will all catch a disease and die out or they will make too much pollution and kill themselves, and then there will only be insects in the world and they will be the best animal.

Everyone is a potential naked slave to you once you become a trainer.

I am intrigued by the basics of human life, by our vulnerability, our desires, our sexuality - as far as I am concerned, character is expressed through sexuality. Art is able to represent human existence stripped to its essence by showing us the naked human body.

We as a human family are on this train that is taking us into more and more war and more and more abuse of human rights where a lot of civilians are being killed and where human rights and international law are being set aside by America and NATO.

As you are touching the human life and human kind, any work is always relevant.

It's nice to be in a world where you're not going to exhaust storylines with potential villains.

How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.

So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.

I love inspiring people and helping them to reach their potential.

For each of us destiny is a blend of potential, circumstances, and choices.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

If you think the technology is infeasible, you don't worry about what it might do and what its potential is.

In a large congregation, while there is a wide diversification of interest, it is also true that there are only a few basic human problems. It must also be taken into consideration that people are people regardless of who they are or what their backgrounds may be. There are certain deep universal appeals to human interest and to these human nature always responds.

The song we’re composing already exists in potential. Our work is to find it.

I think tapping into one's power and one's potential is a very frightening thing.

The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.

I am putting pressure on myself to do my best and perform to my potential.

I have a high degree of confidence about India's growth potential in IT.

The love of husband and wife, which is creative of new human life, is a marvellously personal sharing in the creative love of God who brings into being the eternal soul that comes to every human being with the gift of human life.

Any kid in the world can draw from strengths within - we all have the potential with that.

Happiness is the joy we feel striving after our potential.

I've written a number of books that have to do with the evolution of humans, human intelligence, human emotions.

No human being is illegal. That is a contradiction in terms. Human beings can be beautiful or more beautiful, they can be fat or skinny, they can be right or wrong, but illegal? How can a human being be illegal?

We have a greedy cycle where Human Rights Commissions fine citizens in order to pay their own salaries so they can employ more Human Rights Commissions. It's a bounty system where the prizes are business owner's heads. And so as restaurants go broke, tourists get stabbed. That's human rights in New York. And perhaps America.

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.

I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

What is the greatest deficiency among human Chrsitians? They have an inadequate view of human suffering.

It's human to make mistakes and some of us are more human than others.

Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.

God has the potential of touching people's hearts and changing them.

I believe we have the potential to quadruple Australia's food exports to Asia.

I have a responsibility as a potential role model that I take very seriously.

I think he is an extremely accessible character. In Data there is no potential for cruelty.

A Jew must be sensitive to the pain of all human beings. A Jew cannot remain indifferent to human suffering... The mission of the Jewish people has never been to make the world more Jewish, but to make it more human.

As a college student, what really interested me was the human brain and human intelligence.

I am worried about the potential effect of casinos on communities.

A savage is simply a human organism that has not received enough news from the human race.

We do some experiments in humans, some in mice, and there are some questions that can only be answered in nonhuman primates. It's true that you can't immediately say that those experiments will translate into human health, but nevertheless, it is obvious that having an understanding of human memory is going to be important for human health.

The EU Constitution is something new in human history. Though it is not as eloquent as the French and U.S. constitutions, it is the first governing document of its kind to expand the human franchise to the level of global consciousness. The language throughout the draft constitution speaks of universalism, making it clear that its focus is not a people, or a territory, or a nation, but rather the human race and the planet we inhabit.

Anyone who has been successful and has knowledge to share is a potential mentor.

You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature.

Networks don't want a show with a continuing story. There's no backend potential.

The female biologically [has] more potential to show affection and compassion.

It's true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind.

Always remember that problems contain values that have improvement potential.

Next to the human spirit the human body is the most marvelous of God's creations.