Quotes About Talent

The builder of the best racing car is not necessarily its best driver.

I don't know how to drive a car. The only thing I can do is act, but it's not something I even feel comfortable doing.

While other kids played with cars and toys, I listened to music all day. I wanted to sing it and learn it.

You surprise yourself on some balls off the bat. You don't think you have a chance to catch it. And then your natural ability just takes over.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

I hope I will always have the chance to play the violin.

Roaring like a tiger turns some children into pianists who debut at Carnegie Hall but only crushes others. Coddling gives some the excuse to fail and others the chance to succeed.

It so cliché to say some guys and girls need to step up, but there can be bigger stars and bigger names when people get their chance.

If you have talent with teamwork, you've got a chance to be a championship team.

There are so many people, deaf or otherwise abled, who are so talented but overlooked or not given a chance to even get their foot in the door.

HIs great talent in life was to be a Good Bloke. He could walk into a room and sit down and everybody would be happy to have him, even if all he ever did was smile, for they imagined behind the mustache, behind the smile it hid, something sterner, more critical and yet, also, tolerant, so that when he smiled they felt themselves approved of and they vied with each other to like him best.

You're discussing recreational drugs?" He stood and shut the door and came back looking very serious indeed. I was chastened, as I should have been. "Sorry. What have I never minded about?" "Well, I have truthfully always imagined it was my talent, my gift to introduce my friends to each other. Not one I could ever use for my own happiness, I must say.

A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.

We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even mediocre. In those areas a knowledge workers should not take on work, jobs and assignments. It takes far more energy to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.

History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.

A company that is not able to attract, motivate, and hold men of talent and competence will not survive. Increasingly, this will mean attracting, motivating, and holding the knowledge worker. Unlike the manual worker of yesterday, the knowledge worker does not, however, look just for a job. He looks for a career. He looks for an opportunity.

Energy, resources, and time should go instead to making a competent person into a star performer.

We need far too many leaders to depend only on the naturals.

Cuando uno está borracho, va por ahí contando su historia. El talento de un hombre equivale a la historia que vende de mesa en mesa cuando está borracho.

There are many famous people who could read extremely fast. It was said that England's Samuel Johnson could read almost as fast as he could look at the pages. While in the White House, President Theodore Roosevelt used to read a book every day before breakfast, and he occasionally read three a day. John F. Kennedy was well known for being able to read 1,200 words per minute.

It cannot be stressed too much that team learning is a team skill. A group of talented individual learners will not necessarily produce a learning team, any more than a group of talented athletes will produce a great sports team. Learning teams learn how to learn together. If

but whatever be their degree of talent it is no measure of their rights.

A job pays you for what the role/designation does rather than for what you can do, which is why the compensation it pays doesn't justify your capabilities.

As a young child in Rome, he wrote out the entire score of a nine-voice religious work after hearing it twice.