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Quotes About Talent

Remember Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did but she did it backwards and in high heels.
~ Faith Whittlesey
One is either an artist or one is not. It is not something one becomes. It is something that one is from birth. We do not study to be artists. We study to become more proficient. To understand more.
~ Edward Swift
Talent is the presence of ability and absence of understanding about the source and operation of knowledge.
~ Idries Shah, Reflections
The test of our knowledge is not what we know, but what we can do.
~ Marty Rubin
I haven't always recruited for the best talent. I've taken a few guys who would fit for different reasons. Leadership. Toughness
~ Tom Izzo
Every human has a seed of greatness buried in a gift needed by the world.
~ Myles Munroe
Find the right people, not the best people.
~ Jack Ma
People have a reservoir of talent worth discovering. They just have to be given the opportunity to discover it in themselves
~ Ricardo Semler
Spotting talent is one of the essential elements of great leadership.
~ David McCullough
I don't mind the high price of stardom. I just don't like the high price of mediocrity.
~ Bill Veeck
There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
~ Elbert Hubbard
I Am Really Gifted To Play Under The Leadership Of MS Dhoni.
~ Michael Hussey
Find something you like to do so much that you would gladly do it for nothing; then learn to do it so well that people are happy to pay you for it.
~ John C. Maxwell
Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.
~ Joseph Conrad
We wanted guys who had been productive in college, and we made it a point to pick performance over potential.
~ Tony Dungy
And if God has given you a lot of ability, I believe you should be held to a higher level of expectation.
~ Tony Dungy
Leadership potential exists in everybody. What I think we have missed is that we have somehow relegated leadership only to a special, talented few people.
~ Myles Munroe
Leaders are problem solvers by talent and temperament, and by choice.
~ Harlan Cleveland
The show is in the casting. Choose the right people.
~ Susan Nattrass
Talented performers flock to the best and brightest leaders, and these leaders in turn lift the lids off their people and uncork the latent talent inside of them.
~ John C. Maxwell
We only wanted to pay significant sums to keep truly special players.
~ Tony Dungy
Talent is the discipline, commitment, and willpower to practice/train/study often, long, and hard. Discover your passion and pay the price.
~ Bradford Winters
Talent matters. Systems matter. Strategies matter. We can't just bring nice people together and think we're going to solve the world's problems.
~ Jeff Henderson
Learning from the best, you will eventually become the best if you have the talent already, if you have that potential.
~ Randy Orton