wasted talent Quotes

The wealthiest place on the planet is the graveyard, because in the graveyard we will find inventions that we were never ever exposed to, ideas, dreams that never became a reality, hopes and aspirations that were never acted upon.

The saddest thing in life is wasted talent

One of the greatest tragedies in life is to watch potential die untapped.

It is idle to play the lyre for an ass.

My father always said, 'The saddest thing in life is wasted talent.'

The thing about the movie 'Navy SEALs' is that it was just such a waste. The script could've been shaped to be much better, and you just hate to see all that talent and passion go to waste.

I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

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

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

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.

This was an actress who, for twenty years, had the world at her feet. She kicked it away, and the ball rolled out of her reach.

My contention is, all kids have tremendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.

Gore Vidal was a man of immense literary talent, some of which he used well, some of which he wasted.

The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating or depressing, depending on how you felt about baseball. The same intellectual resources might have cured the common cold, or put a man on Pluto.

And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid ones. Of strength and courage strangled by envy, greed for power, fear of change. Change is freedom, change is life

Everywhere I go, people hear Ricky Williams and the next thing they think is marijuana or wasted talent.

Talent is more erotic when it's wasted.

The great ages did not perhaps produce much more talent than ours,' [T.S.] Eliot wrote. 'But less talent was wasted.

Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

We live in a world of unused and misapplied knowledge and skill.

There are certain things which are lost by being kept and saved by being used. Any individual talent is like that. If it is used, it will develop into something still greater. If someone refuses to use it, in the end that talent will be lost. Supremely so, life is like that.

The saddest thing in life is wasted talent and the choices you make will shape your life forever.

God gave me the same power He gave Jesus. I ask myself daily, Why do I waste such a priceless gift?

The theater is a baffling business, and a shockingly wasteful one when you consider that people who have proven their worth, who have appeared in or been responsible for successful plays, who have given outstanding performances, can still, in the full tide of their energy, be forced, through lack of opportunity, to sit idle season after season, their enthusiasm, their morale, their very talent dwindling to slow gray death. Of finances we will not even speak; it is too sad a tale.

There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated