There is almost nothing more painful for a leader than seeing good people leave a growing organization, whether it's a priest watching a Sunday school teacher walk out the door or a CEO saying goodbye to a co-founder.
Prince.. a true artist in every sense of the world.Gone way too soon.
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.
Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.
One could argue that our national university system has become a de facto talent drain for much of the country. Many states and communities send their top students away to great schools, never to hear from them again.
How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn't get exposed to.
Veteran performers are dying off, and new acts simply aren't emerging on the national scene.
Among those people not graduating, there might be a Steve Jobs or Barack Obama. We'll never know.
One of the things that concerns me is that so few people who go and get an education elsewhere... feel any real... pull for returning home.
The protest years were over, not just for me but for a whole generation, and in music, just like in politics, many of the greatest talents were dead or in exile, and their place was filled by third-rate imitators.
My contention is, all kids have tremendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.
I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.
Boy, there are days where I get up and say 'Where the hell did my talent go? Look at this crap that I'm producing here. This is terrible. Look, I wrote this yesterday. I hate this, I hate this.'
I had more of a vocal range. If you wanted to play a keyboard song, like "Love Walks In," I can do it.
World class players don't become rubbish overnight, especially over one tour.
I knew guys way more talented than me who fell through the cracks.
Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.
I don't want to be the young girl that people say, 'Man, that Lauren Alaina girl, she's got a lot of talent, but she's lost her mind.' I don't ever want that to be me - ever.
If you're mentally weak, it can destroy you. Some guys who look talented lose and never come back.
Regardless of what the minimum wage is, you really have the market wage. And if we're not taking care of our people, then we're going to lose good talent, at every level.
Middle age snuffs out more talent than ever wars or sudden deaths do.
The thing I worry about is, what happens when your talent flees? Because you see that with writers sometimes: they start writing these awful books. And there's something sort of horrifying about it.
You never want to be in a place where an employee has vested 3 out of the 4 years of stock and they start thinking about leaving.
