Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
I think there is a huge ceiling in Derek Carr. I think he has proven that.
Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used. And don't try to give me that nerd argument that your heart is a 'Batman' with a limited-edition silver bat-erang and therefore if it stays in its original packing it increases in value.
Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.
Only being able to watch is the hardest thing for any footballer.
A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
Talent is talent, and everybody knows somebody who has talent or ability, but they never really converted it into a productive performance for whatever reasons.
God gives you talent to nurture. God gives you talent to be something. Some people realize it and some people don't.
In vain have oceans been squandered on you, in vain the sun, wonderfully seen through Whitman’s eyes. You have used up the years and they have used up you, and still, and still, you have not written the poem.
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
When I was 15, I begged my grandfather to give me this guitar he'd always had in the back of his closet. I promised him I'd learn to play it, but I never did. Then my grandfather died, and I felt so guilty. So I started playing.
I was usually asked to do less than I was capable of by directors who had lost control of their movie.
I firmly believe I never had too much of an opportunity after I left Cleveland. I was behind Jamaal Charles at Kansas City. I didn't get too much playing time. I felt when I got in I did well. And then I was in Tampa and never really got to touch the field because of Doug Martin. He's pretty good.
I'm a very funny person that doesn't get the chance to do a lot of comedy, and the same thing with my accents.
Idleness of the mind is much worse than that of the body: wit, without employment, is a disease - the rust of the soul, a plague, a hell itself.
Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
I wasted time writing films. I don't look back on those years as lost, but it wasn't what I should have been doing.
Metro never really wanted me for anything. I was always the one who happened to be free when their first choice was not.
There is nothing worse than not being involved. You are sitting there thinking, 'What exactly am I? A footballer who is not playing football?' You feel a bit worthless sitting in the stands, watching all the time.
I was a goalkeeper, but through my career, I spent almost as much time sitting on the bench as I did playing.
My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my brother.
Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
