Underutilized Potential Quotes

Your heart becomes gangrenous in your body when you go against your talent.

The mind is a powerful thing and most people don't use it properly.

A lucky model who's been given a lot of opportunities I just wish she [Cameron Diaz] would have done more with.

Extensive powers not exercised as far as was necessary have, I believe, scarcely ever failed to ruin the possessor.

I was usually asked to do less than I was capable of by directors who had lost control of their movie.

A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.

It makes me boil when I think of the power we profess and the utter impotency of our action. Believers who know one-tenth as much as we do are doing one-hundred times more for God, with His blessing and our criticism. Oh if I could write it, preach it, say it, paint it, anything at all, if only God's power would become known among us.

Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. You either have not goal that is important enough to you, or you are not using your talents and efforts in a striving toward an important goal.

It so cliché to say some guys and girls need to step up, but there can be bigger stars and bigger names when people get their chance.

I understood somehow my mother's frustration. And that it was no good not only for her, but for her children or her husband, that she didn't have a real use of her ability.

The Connection Machines owned by the United States government laboratories were made available to me because they were considered impossible to program and there was no great demand for them at that time.

Ted is smart and good-looking, but he doesn't use it to good effect, like a rich person that never gives to charity.

For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions.

For me, it is the worst kind of sacrilege if you are given some of special talent and you don't take advantage of this gift.

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.

It's a strange paradox that a man gifted with too many talents can fritter them all away without developing a single one to its full.

The crucial thing is to look in an informed way at what's going on. Look at the way in which we are forced by our imbalanced system to push away people who might contribute mightily to the NHS.

What a shame to waste those great shots on the practice tee.

We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.

Many men are stored full of unused knowledge. Like loaded guns that are never fired off, or military magazines in times of peace, they are stuffed with useless ammunition.

Unused ability, like unused muscles, will atrophy.