Brian Eno Quotes

We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.

Ninety-five per cent of my time is virtually wasted.

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.

Life is something like a trumpet. If you don't put anything in, you won't get anything out.

I think when you get people who are really talented and you take them out of their comfort zone, you get a lot more out of them.

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

When you've got some talent, your job is to use it.

Sometimes, you have to be frustrated and do something unscalable and a waste of your time to be inspired.

You know you have more to offer, and it gets frustrating when you aren't given the chance.

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.

Sometimes it seems to me that I am capable of absolutely nothing, but that nature through me can accomplish a great deal.

Chaos is a terrible thing to waste.

There are highly gifted spirits who are always infertile simply because, owing to a weakness in temperament, they are too impatient to wait out their pregnancy to term.

The most abundant, least used, and most abused resource in the world is human spirit and ingenuity.

Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable.

Unused creativity is not benign.

Vous perdez votre temps! (You're wasting your time.)

Lermontov died at age twenty-eight and wrote more than have you and I put together. Talent is recognizable not only by quality, but also by the quantity it yields.

Talent without craft is like fuel without an engine, it burns wildly but accomplishes nothing.

Capacity without education is deplorable, and education without capacity is thrown away.

I think talent is like a water table under the earth—you tap it with your effort and it comes through you.

You have two choices in life. You either die or do something with your time. You're going to be doing something - why not write?

Energy plus talent and you are a king, energy and no talent and you are still a prince, talent and no energy and you are a pauper

Time elaborately thrown away.