It isn't right to waste your talents in a cell.

It would be criminal to stand by and watch you waste your talent like this.

"I don't know why you're wasting your talents like this," the general said one night over dinner.

She used her gifts, unlike most young people, who wasted their talent and potential.

You don't want to waste your talents lugging stuff around, that's what I told myself.

So silly and stupid to waste our talents just because we give birth to children.

"Why would I waste my talents on a cigar box full of baseball cards?"

Do you think he wasted his life and his talent?

"We're going to have some serious stuff to play- they aren't going to waste her talents."

However, he wasted his talent and never became a useful mathematician.