Wilbur Smith Quotes

Ted is smart and good-looking, but he doesn't use it to good effect, like a rich person that never gives to charity.

For me, it is the worst kind of sacrilege if you are given some of special talent and you don't take advantage of this gift.

Here I am, a not over-good business man, a second-rate engineer. I can make poor mechanical drawings. I play the piano after a fashion. In fact, I am one of those proverbial Jack-of-all-trades who are usually failures. Why I am not, I can't tell you.

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

I'd probably be famous now if I wasn't such a good waitress.

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.

Balotelli, and a few others, have everything that I would have liked to have. It angers me that he does not use his talent to his full advantage.

Your ambition outweighed your talent

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

A lucky model who's been given a lot of opportunities I just wish she [Cameron Diaz] would have done more with.

Your heart becomes gangrenous in your body when you go against your talent.

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

Talent is more erotic when it's wasted.

The saddest thing in life is wasted talent

...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.

Let the thick curtain fall;I better know than allHow little I have gained,How vast the unattained.

For whatever reason, acting took the front seat but all of the projects that I've been doing seem to have some sort of musical element to them.

The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.

It so cliché to say some guys and girls need to step up, but there can be bigger stars and bigger names when people get their chance.

Mom is always saying I'm a smart kid, but that I just don't apply myself.

I have so many really gifted friends, actors who I thought deserved as much as I did to get an agent or a job, or deserved more, and just never made it through somehow. I've always been really fiercely tethered to that. You know, I've been very lucky. All the filmmakers I've worked with have taken my desire to educate myself very seriously.

There are certain things which are lost by being kept and saved by being used. Any individual talent is like that. If it is used, it will develop into something still greater. If someone refuses to use it, in the end that talent will be lost. Supremely so, life is like that.

Many ... have tremendous God-given gifts, but they don't focus on the development of those gifts. Who are these individuals? You've never heard of them- and you never will .

Is there anything so wretched as to look at a man of fine abilities doing nothing?

She hated her job the same way I hated my jobs because she knew she was worth more, but she also hated herself so there wasn't much point in trying to do better.