1.   But because he was so likable and seemed to be wasting so much talent, teachers and counselors tried to help.

2.   The history of the game is littered with cases of players who wasted their talents.

3.   His talents were being wasted as a lawyer.

4.   Everything happens slowly but eventually change becomes apparent as more business leaders realise the nonsense of wasting the talents of a large chunk of their workforce.

5.   But a teacher who frowned on the subject matter told him he was wasting his talent and ought to be ashamed.

6.   Critics began to scorn him as stodgy and old-fashioned, saying that he had wasted his talent making pictures of the idle rich.

7.   He berates himself now for wasting his talent, for frittering away his God-given gifts with all those nights of drinking and carousing.

8.   I wasted my talent.

9.   I felt I was wasting my talent.

10.   I was wasting my talent.