Burton Rascoe Quotes

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

I think like a lot of people, you look back on your life and say, 'Gee, why didn't I apply myself?' If I would have spent as much time studying as I did conniving, trying to do as little as possible, I probably would have got the A's.

I remember early on, in my very, very early days, I had a makeup artist tell me that I needed to get an attitude. I had no idea what he was talking about.

I learned about Chinese ceramics and African sculptures, I aired my scanty knowledge of the French Impressionists, and I prospered.

I've cheated myself: there are other things I could have done to fill out the bouquet of my career.

I regret that I have not written more, shouted louder, and acted out my beliefs.

There are many things that, if I have to relive, maybe I will do it another way. But I would not like to look back and think what I have not been able to.

I think I could look back through the past few years at missed opportunities and stuff, but one thing I have learned is not to dwell on missed chances or times where you have failed.

As a life coach, I love makeovers, from new clothes to surgery, pedicures to highlights. But redoing makes you feel better only if approached with the right attitude.

I wish I'd lived in New York in my early twenties. Or learned to speak more languages at a young age. I didn't do either.

My motivation comes from the plays I didn't make.

The only thing I regret in life is that I didn't practice basketball more.

I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen.

I have to stop watching the Olympics. It just reminds me that I forgot to try really hard at something.

Maybe you've had the experience where somebody's asked you a question and you give an answer, then later in the day you think, "Oh, I wish I'd said that!" I tend to journal these things and put the answers in sermons.

It's not what you are, it's what you don't become that hurts.

Cause' I don't wanna' spend my life jaded, waiting to wake up one day and find that I've let all these years go by wasted. Oh I don't wanna' keep on wishing, missing, but still every morning the color of the night, I ain't spending no more time wasted.

He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.

I regret that I do not have the dignity of Ricardo Montalban, the class of Dean Martin, or the humor of Bill Cosby. I do have the heart of a lion.

When my father passed, I was still an unsuccessful cook with a drug problem. I was in my mid-thirties, standing behind an oyster bar, cracking clams for a living when he died. So, he never saw me complete a book or achieve anything of note. I would have liked to have shared this with him.

The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.

Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy – if not less of it – doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.

Even now I wonder what I might have accomplished if I'd studied harder

You are capable of much more than you are presently thinking, imagining, doing or being.

A well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.