Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes

Earned a bachelor's at 27, then an M.F.A. that is still completely unused and in mint condition, never taken out of the box.

Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.

I have never truly applied myself. Lots of things have come too easily to me and at too high a level.

To be used in a part without depth is a frustrating feeling, when you know you have something to give.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

You know, last season I didn't do anything on the show, so I was frustrated. I mean, don't get me wrong: It's nice to get a paycheck. But if you don't really do anything it's not very satisfying.

It would be as wise to set up an accomplished lawyer to saw wood as a business as to condemn an educated and sensible woman to spend all her time boiling potatoes and patching old garments. Yet this is the lot of many, a one who incessantly stitches and boils and bakes, compelled to thrust back out of sight the aspirations which fill her soul.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

For a lot of different reasons I didn't fulfil my potential.

I did very little at Real Madrid. I would have liked to do much more but I didn't get the chance.

Only being able to watch is the hardest thing for any footballer.

One of the worst things you can die with is potential.

My feeling is I haven't done anything yet.

I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived... and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables.

But that would leave Paxton to fend for herself, and the last thing any woman wanted in this kind of situation was to look around and see all the people who could help her doing nothing.

All the stars that never were are parking cars and pumping gas.

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide.

To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.

If you are not doing what your passion is, you are putting it on layaway.

The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.

A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.

If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.

The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.

When you look at life retrospectively you rarely regret anything that you did, but you might regret things that you didn't do.