Jamie Dimon Quotes

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does.

For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them.

Middle age snuffs out more talent than ever wars or sudden deaths do.

It's the most extraordinary and saddest thing, the amount of talent out there not being seen.

Teenagers are some of the most passionate, dynamic and creative people I know. Yet, too often, this creative spark is left to flicker precariously and sometimes fade entirely.

Many incredible artists die before they were famous.

A lot of the really great stuff fell between the tracks.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school.

There's talent on the streets, kids with ideas who have stories to tell and never get a chance.

The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.

There are plenty of people I've seen and thought that person is funny, or that person is really talented, and they've got something, but maybe the buying public doesn't see the same thing I see, or the stars don't align in the right way for them.

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

No one came to earth empty; everybody came with a contribution to make to their generation. Most of them never find that gift and even more die never releasing it.

Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches.

So much luck! I'm not putting myself down, I'm not saying I don't have talent - I must have, to have got this far - but I honestly believe that some of the greatest actors in America are tending bar and waiting tables and driving taxis, and it will never happen for them.

Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

We've pitched and even begun development on a number of fantasy worlds that have never seen the light of day. All of those worlds... It's soul-crushing to see them sputter out, one by one. Lost. Like tears. In rain.

I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

Here was a man with loads of talent, loads of ability, lots of love to give; but that had been stifled and aborted. I became very fond of that character.

My mother is a great artist, but she always treated her paintings like minor postcards. Had she pursued it, she would have been a great artist. Instead, she looked down on her art.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the films have never been made. That's the saddest thing of all, because they're locked up and no one else can make them.