Unused Opportunities Quotes

We've all got a black book of missed opportunities.

I don't understand the joy of sitting in my house with nothing to do.

For me, the saddest thing in the world is always lost potential. That is always the most heartbreaking thing, when there's something left to be mined from a situation or a person that goes unexplored; that's a tragedy to me.

History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities.

I feel ashamed if my hands are too clean and untouched. It's a measure of how much time I've spent travelling and poncing around.

You never want to leave points out on the field, especially in a game when you know it is going to be close.

The dreadful burden of having nothing to do.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

And for me there's still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.

I look around at people who had success so early and then didn't know what to do with themselves.

I think there's a lot of hidden talents at the big clubs that aren't getting the chance to showcase their ability.

There are certain things which are lost by being kept and saved by being used. Any individual talent is like that. If it is used, it will develop into something still greater. If someone refuses to use it, in the end that talent will be lost. Supremely so, life is like that.

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

Mostly, I just waste my time.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking.

I regrettably wasted time at university by being overwhelmed and intimidated by the talent of other composers. I felt stuck and didn't know what I was doing there. I enjoyed my experience, but I didn't grab it in the way I would now.

If you spend all your time reading books that you only pretend to understand, year after year, there isn't much room for anything else.

To be honest, I don't think there's anything more exciting than an empty stadium. When you see it empty like that, all you see is possibility.

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

If something comes up I might write about it, but without an outlet the whole thing winds down.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

What a pity so few

I never want to feel at the end of a game that I still have some energy left.

Don't go to the grave with life unused.