Potential Wasted Quotes

#1. My brother,' Mortin says as Leidan shuffles away. 'So much potential, wasted.' He takes a swig of beer. I wonder whose potential he really thinks is wasted. I look through his upturned drink at the walls and ceiling. Things look sadder when glimpsed through alcohol.

Ned Vizzini

#2. The most exciting thing about women's liberation is that this century will be able to take advantage of talent and potential genius that have been wasted because of taboos.

Helen Reddy

#3. But when you're alone in the world, really alone, you have no choice but to be open to suggestions.

Sarah Dessen

#4. People keep telling me I never lived up to my potential, that I wasted my talent ... I just didn't have as much as people thought. I got more ink for doing less than any pitcher who ever lived.

Bo Belinsky

#5. From 1985 to 1994, I lived in Manhattan in a big old loft right off Times Square. I could walk to work, which was in a couple of Broadway theaters, to Howard Stern's studio, and to 30 Rock for 'Letterman' and 'SNL.' Even in New York, walking to work is homey and folksy, like living in a small town.

Penn Jillette

#6. Let us become the first generation to decide to be the last that sees empty classrooms, lost childhoods and wasted potential

Malala Yousafzai

#7. Can say that?" I do want to start over with the right man, the New Nick. Things are looking bad for him, dire. Only I can save Nick from me. But I am trapped. "If you ever left here and I didn't

Gillian Flynn

#8. When leaders know how to lead great meetings, there's less time wasted and less frustration. We have more energy to do the work that matters, realize our full potential, and do great things.

Justin Rosenstein

#9. When the time comes for you to leave this earth, if it doesn't become a lesser place with your absence, then you have wasted your life.

Shaun Hick

#10. We must always be aware of the fact that the body, soul and mind are to be trained simultaneously, for otherwise it would be impossible to gain and maintain the magic equipoise.

Franz Bardon

#11. Let it not be said by a future, forlorn generation that we wasted and lost our great potential because our despair was so deep we didn't even try, or because each of us thought someone else was worrying about our problems.

Ralph Nader

#12. Youth is wasted on the young.

George Bernard Shaw

#13. I'm sick of hearing people tell us how not right we are for each other. Just because you don't see it doesn't mean we're not true.

Nicole Williams

#14. It pains me to say this, Colin, but if you wish to continue to grow intellectually, you need to work harder right now than you ever have before. Otherwise you, you risk wasting your potential."
"Technically," Colin answered, "I think I might have already wasted it.

John Green

#15. Gene Roddenbury felt that television was being wasted. That it had the potential for enlightenment and even inspiration.

George Takei

#16. A life lived at less than its full potential is a life half wasted.

Tony Clark

#17. When people wish for harmony, I wish for chaos. I'd rather see imaginative means of self-destruction, than to see laziness and wasted potential.

Lionel Suggs

#18. You can have all the words in the world,but if not said rightly, those words are simply wasted potential.

Joel T. McGrath

#19. Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted ...

C. G. Jung

#20. there's a lot of intelligence out there being wasted by underestimating students' potential to develop.

Carol S. Dweck

#21. In God's economy, nothing is slag, nothing is wasted. Every relationship we build is a teacher, every experience we have is a coach. In every scar there is a lesson. In every memory there lives potential to make more.

Toni Sorenson

#22. Greece has great strengths, but much of this potential has been wasted. That's because of a wider political system, but also because of a lack of an institutional framework.

George Papandreou

#23. One of the most terrifying things I fear is not my potential, but how much regret I'll die with should I never use it.

Craig D. Lounsbrough