Quotes about Talent

Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates.

Geography just doesn't matter anymore. Hire the best talent, regardless of where it is.

Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.

Just as an athlete with natural gifts may fail to develop the fundamental skills necessary to play their sport after their talent fades, so people naturally disposed to faith may fail to develop the skills necessary to sustain them for a lifetime.

Prayer is the greatest force that we can wield. It is the greatest talent which God has granted us. He has given it to every Christian.

Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs, but if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, Ogilvy & Mather will become a company of giants.

If you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.

Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if I don't tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don't share it? I don't intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.