Unrealized Opportunities Quotes

We did a film called 'Kes,' which is about a lad with a talent that nobody can recognise, or that nobody chose to recognise.

I know people who've had dreams unrealised due to circumstances.

Dream big; at least you will have the joy of reaching for the stars instead of living in a box filled with unopened gifts.

When I look around, I see a world of unrealized opportunities for improvements, an abundance of talented people able to take the risks necessary to make improvements, but a shortage of people and investors willing to take those risks.

It isn't all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning.

I always knew that there were huge opportunities for me, and that I had a lot of potential to do a lot of different things, but I also knew it was about my execution and my application of skills.

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!

With all the opportunities I had, I could have done more. And if I'd done more, I could have been quite remarkable.

There's much unlocked potential in Philips.

I believe the greatest successes you will ever attain are still waiting for you on the road ahead.

Not that which is inspires the creation, but that which may be; not the actual, but the possible.

I would have killed to do 'Beauty And The Beast' at Warners, which went away. I would have killed to do 'The Witches' at Warners that went away. God knows there are many, many of them. All I can do is diligently do the screenplay, diligently do the design work, deliver a budget, and then await a decision.

The manuscript in the drawer either rots or ripens.

There's so much left to achieve, there's so much more to do, there's so much that has not been done.

I would rather talk about films that I did than the films that I didn't do.

More interesting than thinking about what's possible in 10 years is thinking what's possible now but that no one has built.

The world is the sum-total of our vital possibilities.