Quotes About Wasted Potential

#1. 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

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

Malala Yousafzai

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

Joel T. McGrath

#4. Days are like trains, they will just zoom by. You can be zapped seeing them pass or you can jump on to one of them and enjoy the Journey.-RVM

R.v.m.

#5. Our focus is not on current politics, but students seem to be naturally drawn to this topic. This is understandable, when the U.S. is constantly trying to terrorize the nation with threats of war, students obviously take notice.

Mohammad Marandi

#6. 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

#7. The seeing of Truth cannot be dualistic (a 'thing' seen). It cannot be seen by a see-er, or via a see-er. There can only be a seeing which itself is Truth.

Wei Wu Wei

#8. When a flower blooms,
God is smiling at mankind.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#9. 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

#10. 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

#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. Directing myself definitely made me a better actor. And, you know, I think actors have the best track record when they turn to directing. Writers, too. I knew how to direct actors because I've been there and I know what I like.

Matt Dillon

#13. Youth is wasted on the young.

George Bernard Shaw

#14. So, all in all, the whore's drawers are back up, and with any luck they'll stay that way.

Ronnie O'Sullivan

#15. 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

#16. I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been.

Sebastian Junger

#17. Black and white might be sufficient. But why deprive yourself of color.

Christian Dior

#18. On the McGuire course, there's a technique called 'cancellation' where negative experiences are replaced with positive ones.

Gareth Gates

#19. 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

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

George Takei

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

Tony Clark

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

C. G. Jung

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

Carol S. Dweck

#24. Intemperance in talk makes dreadful havoc in the heart.

Thomas F. Wilson

#25. Don't let go too soon, but don't hang on too long.

Morrie Schwartz.

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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