The school tries to help students 'reach/realize their full potential'. [=to become the best they can be]
There is 'potential' in the new technology, but it will be a long time before it can actually be used.
Wet roads increase the 'potential for' an accident. [=make an accident more likely to happen]
(..) Again. Stop. You're gonna have to do better than that. That's more like it. COBB: They say we only use a fraction of our brain's true potential. Now, that's when we're awake. When we're asleep, our mind can do almost anything. Such as? Imagine you're designing a building. (..)2010 Inception