Quotes About Talent

A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see - and hits it.

Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't.

There is nothing worse in this world then wasted talent.

Her arms rippled with muscles. Harriet was impressed. Apparently playing the harp only looked delicate.

For a woman to be able to dominate and also be feminine and soft, that's a talent. And its not all about appearance. A woman who has a brain, who is street-smart and book-smart, that woman is very, very sexy to me." ~

There was no trick or stunt that he couldn't accomplish with the greatest of ease; we had balancing stunts and all that jazz — nothing he couldn't do. He had absolute unerring control over his body.

He could sing in more different keys during the course of one song than anybody I've ever heard,

As Dean saw it, the issue was talent, but his confidence in himself was never contagious.

Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.

And it's sad because it's like a surprise to people - almost an anomaly - when artists are actually refined and trained on an instrument. That's the last thing people think about.

Call it Talent Development, Human Relations, People Support, or Head of People Experiences — whatever term fits your culture — choose to call this function anything but Human Resources.

The #1 demotivator for talented people is having to put up with bozos, as Steve Jobs would call them. Nothing is more frustrating for A Players than having to work with B and C Players who slow them down and suck their energy. In that sense, "The best thing you can do for employees — a perk better than foosball or free sushi — is hire only 'A' players to work alongside them. Excellent colleagues trump everything else

One thing we learned while building Google is that it's easier to find what you're looking for if it comes looking for you. What we're looking for are the best engineers in the world. And here you are.

An A Player, by the Smarts' definition, is someone in the top 10% of the available talent pool who is willing to accept your specific offer. Read that definition again. They are not implying that you have to pay beyond what your business model can sustain. They do mean that you need to attract the largest and most capable talent pool excited about the job and willing to accept your compensation package

Valleys of Death" — those points in the company's growth where you're bigger, but not quite big enough to have the next level of talent and systems needed to scale the venture.

So much technology, so little talent.

One of his greatest talents was empathy; no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.

When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearanceî

When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance.

I only know two pieces; one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't.

Entertainers wrongly assume that their fame, money, and influence arise from broad knowledge rather than natural talent, looks, or mastery of a narrow skill.

Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.

Only the mediocre artist is always at his best.