Peter Higgs Quotes

I feel ashamed if my hands are too clean and untouched. It's a measure of how much time I've spent travelling and poncing around.

Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.

My 20s were a lost decade. I didn't do much of anything.

It is better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

I have an enormous sense of having failed in life.

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

I sleep till one, and I'm always surprised when someone in blue rinse on a talk show says, 'You're a genius, Mr. Newley, you do so many things.' Tony Newley never realized his potential, did the things he should have done.

It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.

The longing to produce great inspirations didn't produce anything but more longing.

Don't go to the grave with life unused.

Time drinketh up the essence of every great and noble action which ought to be performed, and which is delayed in the execution.

Mostly, I just waste my time.

When I went through my life, I was like, 'I sit around and play video games all day. Nobody wants to hear about this.'

I don't remember my 20s as a good place.

I don't understand the joy of sitting in my house with nothing to do.

I dreamed of turning pro as an Olympic medallist but I ended up turning pro as the kid who failed to make the Olympics.

You get into depression when you are sitting at home and have no work, especially after being at the top of your game.

I think I've underachieved quite heavily.

I don't make any secret of it - I hate not playing.

My father was like Willy Loman, you know: he never really made it - and he was from a family where there were people who had made it.

I'm not really happy with my football career, but I can't complain about it, either.

Trouble Springs From Idleness.

Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.