Unappreciated Talents Quotes

To keep the ball rolling I asked Marlow if this Powell was remarkable in any way. “He was not exactly remarkable,” Marlow answered with his usual nonchalance. “In a general way it’s very difficult to become remarkable. People won’t take sufficient notice of one, don’t you know.”

I almost get annoyed at the fact that I'm not going to use all that I got.

Nobody's going to write a book about me, because nobody's going to find anything worth writing a book about.

It was clear to me that it wouldn't matter what I did - they would never truly appreciate me or learn what I had to offer. They were far beyond fickle - they were insensible, like kittens,predatory little things, distracted by the first bit of string or shiny bauble that rolled across the floor, and nothing I could ever say or do could possibly make any kind of dent in their willful ignorance.

We are all more capable than we could ever imagine or admit to.

I think everybody has talents that haven't been tapped into. They can go unnoticed your entire life.

People see me as something I'm not.

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.