Unutilized Potential Quotes

The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

But what is opportunity to the man who can't use it?

What is opportunity to the man who cant use it?

You get so tired of having your work die. I just wanted to make something that people would actually use.

Certainly there is, for the American Negro artist who can escape the restrictions the more advanced among his own group would put upon him, a great field of unused material ready for his art.

There's a waterfall of content that you're missing out on.

Bollywood has not utilised my potential! But unfortunately, we can't plan and have things our way.

It is sad, indeed, to see how man wastes his opportunities. How many could be made happy, with the blessings which are recklessly wasted or thrown away.

If you took this thing on yourself, unwilling, at others' asking, then you have pity and honour from me. And I marvel at you: to keep it hid and not to use it. You are a new people and a new world to me. Are all your kin of like sort? Your land must be a realm of peace and content, and there must gardners be in high hounour.

Keeping even the most humble talent wrapped in a napkin becomes the more reprehensible the greater the emergency.

I knew I could play really well in one game, score the winning goal and then, come the next game, I wouldn't play at all or I might come off the bench for the last five minutes. So I was frustrated towards the end of my time at Spurs. I wasn't happy.

If others don't use their gifts, you get cheated, and if you don;t use your gifts, they get cheated.

Probably 95 percent of the things that are written never get on the screen.

We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the world as gold in the mine.