Quotes About Wasted Talent

#1. Max marvels that you can't tell at all from his voice how this type of thing
the casual prying, snooping and implications
royally pisses him off. He really should have gone into acting. It's a tragically wasted talent.

Lynn Kelling

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

Chazz Palminteri

#3. Don't forget: one of the saddest things in life is wasted talent.

Thomas S. Monson

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

Chazz Palminteri

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

Ricky Williams

#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. Talent is more erotic when it's wasted.

Don DeLillo

#8. Every talent you have is not wasted. It is there because of a reason and God will open that door when the right time comes along to use it.

Shannon L. Alder

#9. 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

Ursula K. Le Guin

#10. Before her was a man who wasted words on no one. If he said something, you could take the worth of his words to the bank. In her home was a man who had the skill and talent to be anyone and chose to be the best version of himself.

Sarah Winter

#11. To "stand there" at the bedside of a patient who is faced with death from cancer is anathema for oncologists.

Nortin M. Hadler

#12. Without patience and the skill of a craftsman, even the greatest talent is wasted.

Orhan Pamuk

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

Jonah Lehrer

#14. I have crossed over, and that childhood is as far away and strange as something that happened to someone else in a land beyond the sea. That boy is not me, though I am what he became.

Kermit Roosevelt III

#15. Don't die with your music still in you

Wayne Dyer

#16. I told you what a good little whore you could be. Your talent has been wasted.

Jesse Joren

#17. Beautiful things may be admired, if not loved,

L. Frank Baum

#18. I regrettably wasted time at university by being overwhelmed and intimidated by the talent of other composers. I felt stuck and didn't know what I was doing there. I enjoyed my experience, but I didn't grab it in the way I would now.

Laura Mvula

#19. 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

#20. If there is one sin - or rather one waste - it is not doing what you have the inclination or gift for.

Oliver

#21. Good-hearted laughter is a tribute to the happy God, who created laughter and delights to enter into it with us.

Randy Alcorn

#22. You were right, you know. Ours is a talent wasted on the useless. - Gavin, to Kiaran

Elizabeth May

#23. The great ages did not contain the best talent, they wasted less.

T. S. Eliot

#24. That genius is a rare exception ( It's not true. Talent and genius have been wasted on enormous scale throughout our history; this is all I know for sure.

Eric Hoffer

#25. I never want to be too mean with my songs, but with 'I Hope It Rains' it was definitely somewhere in the middle with being sassy but also a little class in there as well. It was a good blend for me and who I want to be perceived as an artist.

Jana Kramer

#26. Across my life only one work will be written: "waste" _ waste of love, waste of talent, waste of enterprise.

Violet Trefusis

#27. I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into my books.

John Keegan

#28. I've known people with exceptional talent - and some have wasted it. Ambition spurs a man on.

Geoffrey Boycott