Barking Up The Wrong Tree Quotes by Susan Olsen, Pablo Picasso, Joseph Campbell, Andrew Cohen, Zachary Levi, Billy Gibbons and many others.

If you were a kid actor, if you had any plans of being an actor as an adult, you were really barking up the wrong tree.
Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? …people who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.
When we talk about settling the world’s problems, we’re barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We’re not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
To campaign against colonialism is like barking up a tree that has already been cut down.
When you go and create something, you want to believe in it. If they don’t, we’re barking up the wrong tree. But when you believe in something and you see other people believing in it too, it just feels like you’re doing something right in the world, and that feels good.
Until you learn to play what you want to hear, you’re barking up the wrong tree.

This is a little off subject, but I’m interested in those cases where someone is barking up the wrong tree, or misapplying their talent.