The most bitter pain among men: to have much knowledge but little power.
Sometimes hard work doesn't pay off.
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
Every time I lose a final, I am disappointed.
Effort without talent is a depressing situation... but talent without effort is a tragedy.
Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
…would…before he could in any way benefit his friends or the state, come to an untimely end without doing any good to himself or others.
I remember rehearsing it, and it was the one that we were really excited about and thought would sound the best, and once it was down on tape, it was like, This doesn't actually sound that good.
When I was at Kingsoft, I was under pressure and worked hard, but the results were not satisfactory.
Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.
Discontent arises from a knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual
I was terribly shy when I was growing up, I really wasn't confident with other people and I think I was always afraid of up or not being this very cool, amazing person that I wanted to be.
High expectations produce high frustrations.
The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.
We've all got a black book of missed opportunities.
Some losses are harder to take than others. You can lose and play well. It is when you lose and don't do the things you worked on and don't do what you say you would that is difficult.
The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.
Man knows so much and does so little.
Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.
I feel like I've cheated. I never knew what to do. I was never a good enough painter to earn a living, and so I drifted into the theatre, and I've had a successful life. I feel guilty that I've never done a day's work in my life!
I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.
When I did dance, I never felt enough. It probably was where I got my biggest insecurities as a kid.
It took years, honestly, to deal with the disappointment of Beijing.
When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be, and they're constantly disappointed by that. I think that would be the camp that I would fall into - constantly horrified by the things people do.
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
