Talent Wasted Quotes

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

Elizabeth May

#2. Before I start directing a show, I try to spend a few weeks hanging around the set, getting to know the crew and talking to the actors about how they like to work. Who is fussy? Who is left-handed? Who wants to go home early, and who is the perfectionist?

Eric Stoltz

#3. Surrounded by water
Miles into the ocean
All out alone
Searching for a beacon

Uday Mane

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

Thomas S. Monson

#5. What you make of life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need - what you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours. Stay mindful of your choices!

John C. Maxwell

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

Jonah Lehrer

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

Orhan Pamuk

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

Chazz Palminteri

#9. 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

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

Jesse Joren

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. We'd get out of it." She stared at the huge bell for a moment and then added, "I hate the sound of that bell." A gusty breeze rustled the leaves and threw a lock of hair in her face. She brushed it back and turned away from the oak and the bell. "Over there" - she pointed

Michael J. Sullivan

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

Don DeLillo

#15. 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

#16. One of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.

Stephen Covey

#17. You're called a genius by people, and then your whole life you become the part.

Brian Wilson

#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. I'm very pessimistic.

B.F. Skinner

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

Oliver

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

Chazz Palminteri

#23. 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

#24. Tales within tales. Dreams within dreams. Pattern on pattern and path beyond path. For such short-lived folks, the human kind seem determined to make things as complicated as possible for themselves.

Juliet Marillier

#25. incrementalism leads to irrelevance over time,

Eric Schmidt

#26. I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don't believe they are as much alive as we are.

Ziggy Marley

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

Ricky Williams

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

T. S. Eliot

#29. 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

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

Violet Trefusis

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

Geoffrey Boycott

#32. My daughter asked me what it's like to have children ... So I followed her to the washroom every time she went and asked her questions through the door until she lost her S#!T ...

Tanya Masse