Quotes About Talent

Unless your open position demands that your candidate will solve puzzles or riddles, do not use puzzles or riddles, instead of auditions.

Genius is sorrow's child.

I admire writers who can make complicated things simple, but my own talent has been to make simple things complicated.

Ideas' is right. I hardly do any detailed design anymore, I have people who are better at it than I am. But a craftsman is not necessarily an artist. He needs that something extra that only comes from the cold heart of the universe.

Love sharpens the eye, the ear, the touch; it quickens the feet, it steadies the hand, it arms against the wet and the cold. What we love to do, that we do well. To know is not all; it is only half. To love is the other half

Some say, that Signor Bononcini,Compared to Handel's a mere ninny;Others aver, to him, that HandelIs scarcely fit to hold a candle.Strange! that such high dispute should be'Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

long streaks are extraordinary luck imposed on great skill.

Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.

So somebody has talent? So what? Dime a dozen. And we're overpopulated. Actually we have more food than we have people and more art. We've gotten to the point of burning food. When will we begin to burn our art?

All the arts come from God and are to be respected as divine inventions

There is no genius. There is only the work. There is no art. There is only the craft.

There is no doubt of course that poverty develops much that is precious in life, not talent or genius alone, but valuable qualities of character. But it does vastly more harm than good. Whenever a man succeeds in spite of poverty we recognize the wonder and eagerly give it acclaim. But the failures resulting from poverty we pass over. Indeed, they are so common as to be almost uninteresting. We speak of them by the bulk.

Genius must be born, and never can be taught.

But almost from the beginning, Vallee's special ability as a talent scout came to the fore. He plucked Alice Faye out of the chorus in George White's Scandals and sent her to vocal and film stardom. He found Frances Langford singing on a small station in Florida. Beatrice Lillie, Milton Berle, and Phil Baker got their first major radio exposure on the Vallee show.

I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players and that's what I tried to do.

I never had any social life, just played the piano and studied, studied, studied.

My early life was full of music because my sisters played the piano and I started playing at three.

Greg Maddux could put a baseball through a life saver if you asked him.

I can't draw a straight line to save my life. I just can't draw.

You can have average talent, but when God breathes on your life, you will go further than people that have great talent. Don't talk yourself out of it.

Without the piano my life would be a disaster - nobody would hold me in any regard. It's the thing that saved me.

No matter how talented you are not everyone is going to like you but that's life, stay strong

It's a young country and a German only feels comfortable being with the masses. They have very little talent at creating an inner life, privacy. And I think there must be something wrong.

Each human being was given two qualities: power and the gift. Power directs us towards our destiny; the gift obliges us to share with others what is best in us.