A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
潜在
Potential
The potential for the saxophone is unlimited.
萨克斯管的潜力是无限的。
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
我会做好准备，总有一天我会有机会的。
The word 'potential' used to hang over me like a cloud.
“潜力”这个词曾经像云彩一样笼罩着我。
Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.
领导是释放人们变得更好的潜力。
Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential.
人类只触及了其真正潜力的表面。
Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
未经加工的钻石有时会被误认为是没有价值的鹅卵石。
As far as advice to potential teenage idols, there is no formula.
至于对潜在的青少年偶像的建议，没有固定的模式。
I love inspiring people and helping them to reach their potential.
我喜欢激励别人，帮助他们发挥自己的潜力。
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
重要的不是你拥有什么，而是你使用了什么。
One of man's greatest tragedies is mistaking the seed within him for the flower.
人类最大的悲剧之一就是把自己内心的种子误认为花。
The greatest barrier to someone achieving their potential is their denial of it.
一个人实现自己潜能的最大障碍是他们对自己潜能的否认。
It's not what I do, but the way I do it. It's not what I say, but the way I say it.
不是我做什么，而是我做事的方式。不是我说什么，而是我说话的方式。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I came from a lower-middle-class postwar family in a time of austerity and retrenchment, with no one in the family who was in any way artistic or a potential mentor to a budding writer, and yet this is what I became.
我出生在战后一个经济紧缩的中下层家庭，家里没有一个人在艺术方面有任何建树，也没有一个人能成为一个崭露头角的作家的潜在导师，但我却成了这样的人。
Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.
当我还是个孩子的时候，我就有一种本能的渴望去扩展和成长。对我来说，一个优秀的人的功能和责任是真诚和诚实地开发一个人的潜力。
In every ending, there is a beginning. In every mistake, a lesson. And so, in every moment and every one, endless potential.
每个结局都有一个开始。在每一个错误中，都有一个教训。所以，在每一个时刻，每一个人，都有无限的潜力。
Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.
成功在于成功，而不在于有成功的潜力。任何一块宽阔的土地都有可能成为宫殿的所在地，但在它建成之前没有宫殿。
That's what I love about sketch comedy: a sketch is five minutes, then it goes dark, and there's the potential for something else.
这就是我喜欢喜剧小品的原因:一个小品只有五分钟，然后它就变黑了，还有其他可能性。
The only way you'll have a pen of potential Romeos from your past to choose from is to actually have a past.
唯一能让你从你的过去中挑选出一笔潜在的罗密欧的方法就是拥有真正的过去。