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。
Kids can be born with potential but unless it's encouraged - pushed, even - I don't think it will ever come to fruition.
孩子们可能天生就有潜力，但如果没有鼓励——甚至是推动——我认为它永远不会实现。
The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different-to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.
我们努力确保每个孩子都有机会，其本质必须是确保每个孩子都有平等的机会，不是要变得平等，而是要变得不同——实现他或她所拥有的任何独特的身体、心灵和精神潜能。
I would say that if you really wished to be a working member of the community, don't go out on strike because then there's no work and no potential of work.
我想说的是，如果你真的想成为社区的一名工作人员，就不要罢工，因为那样就没有工作，也没有工作的潜力。
Once you're able to look like an idiot and be OK with it, it opens up your potential.
一旦你能像个傻瓜一样接受它，它就会打开你的潜力。
Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.
永远不要低估梦想的力量和人类精神的影响。在这个观念上我们都是一样的:伟大的潜力存在于我们每个人的内心。