Casey Stoner Quotes

Balotelli, and a few others, have everything that I would have liked to have. It angers me that he does not use his talent to his full advantage.

I'd have thought my particular brand of quirkiness, combined with sharp intelligence and a fine voice, would have yielded more. But it hasn't. Yet!

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

When you're a very ambitious person, the things that are disappointing are when other people around you aren't as enthusiastic.

I don't hate Dane Cook, but I am trying to go after people I think are capable of more.

There are plenty of people in the world who have tried to be rock stars and have not gotten there.

Once again our cricketers have flattered to deceive in Australia.

It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

My dad is really just lazy. He has nothing, I feel, to offer this world.

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.

You see a script, and you say, 'Oh, I can play the heck out of that,' talk to your agent, and he says they don't want to see you. That's heartbreaking.

It is hard when you think you can do better, but things just aren't working out.

It frustrated me as a kid. Like, why didn't I just wake up every morning shooting half-court shots from my bedroom?

If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success.

Success is the brand on the brow of the man who aimed too low.

Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection.

And I laugh at myself for thinking I could touch the sky.

If you are to accomplish all that one demands of you, you must overestimate your own worth.

Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations.

A middling talent makes for a more serene life.

Hair is gray and the firers are burning. So many dreams on the shelf. You say I wanted you to be proud of me. I always wanted that myself.

I talked to people that I'd done theater with, older actors and stuff. There's a lot of people who go into the business, and they must think they're good, or they wouldn't be in it. Why do you think that you're good enough to go into the business and make money at it? So I really wanted to ask myself that question a lot. Because it was an important kind of thing that I was going to do. I really wanted to do it, I loved it, and I thought that I was good enough that I could make money at it. And that's really what it came down to.