Unrecognized Potential Quotes

People don’t know what they want until they see it.

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.

Nobody told me I was a child prodigy.

I still never get recognized. Small, bald white guys like myself - we all kind of look the same.

My family was not an artistic family, but somewhere in my head, I thought I might be good at it. I don't know why I thought it. I had no evidence to think I might be good at it.

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about.

Rather than admire the mediocre great men over whom passersby nudge each other in awe, I venerate the young, unknown geniuses who die in their teens, their souls shattered - delicate, phosphorescent glowworms that one must see to know they really did exist.

My earthly parents don't know my potential or my divine qualities. They weren't taught how to diagnose or be aware of such things.

There is a lot of talent in our slums.

I thought I had swell ideas, and wonderful musicians, but the hell of it, no one else did.

I do feel, in my dreamings and yearnings, so undiscovered by those who are able to help me.

Great opportunities are often disguised as small acts of service.

The world will never discover a person who is hiding in the crowd.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!

When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.

I'm in a position where I'm being continually knocked back for the kind of independent films I want to be in because people don't know who I am.

The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.

No skill, no special apti­tude, no vividness of imagination or precision of thinking would go unrecognized because the child who possessed it was of one sex rather than the other. No child would be relentlessly shaped to one pattern of behavior, but instead there should be many patterns, in a world that had learned to allow to each individual the pattern which was most congenial to his gifts.

I understand that everything is dictated by market value. But cinema is also an art. It saddens me to see great talent languishing for lack of proper roles.

I was in a movie called 'Before & After' with Meryl Streep. I was edited out of the movie, but no one told me. I think I was 18 or 19 years old. I sat across from her and asked her every question about acting. I completely embarrassed myself.

I always feel over-appreciated but underestimated.

There are so many people, deaf or otherwise abled, who are so talented but overlooked or not given a chance to even get their foot in the door.

Every idea appears at first as a strange visitor, and when it begins to be realized, it is hardly distinguishable from fantasy.

Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.