Unmet Potential Quotes

Potential is like a summer crop. If it don't rain, it don't grow.

I remember rehearsing it, and it was the one that we were really excited about and thought would sound the best, and once it was down on tape, it was like, This doesn't actually sound that good.

At the point that an idea approaches perfection, fashion and expectations surge ahead, leaving the innovator with considerable room to find further improvements.

We do not seem to be finding tomorrow's Toscas.

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

When I was young, I used to hear people say, 'He's a golden boy. Look at that guy. Can you imagine what he's going to be like when he grows up?' Well, I unfortunately bought into that. And I hadn't even found myself. Quite honestly, I was running from myself. But I knew how to work Top 40 radio.

We don't want to keep talking about 'potential.' That word is the most dangerous word in professional sports.

Minority students became the victims of low expectations.

I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth - that I hadn't set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if 'The Big Trail' had been a success and launched me as a star.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

There is a deep sadness to American poverty, greater than the sadness of any other kind. It's because America has such an ideology of success.

My father was a dreamer - my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady's handbags, an old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: 'Don't end up like me.'

Negro life in Washington is a promise rather than a fulfillment.

I didn't go to the 12th grade... I stopped at 11.

I had been on several shows that were meant to be the big ones, that would go on forever, and they didn't.

That's the trouble with stories. People start out fantastic. You think they're extraordinary, but it turns out as the work goes along, they're just average with a good education.

It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.

I'd been told I was going to be the next big thing. But in actual fact, the complete opposite happened.

I've personally been involved in movies where people on set were talking about awards for the movie, and I bought into the hype. And then the movie would come out, and not only was it not good, it was horrible.

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.

I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.

Too often, I have not been what I wanted to be; I've succumbed to pressures. Yes, I have. The things I've done that I liked, I've always done against advice.

I knew guys way more talented than me who fell through the cracks.

Silicon Valley has a lot of noise, a lot of hype. People are very excited about all of the Facebook stuff, Facebook applications. It's just been a huge hype over the last year when actually... there isn't really that much value.

Expectations were pretty low and they are meeting them.