Jimmy Iovine Quotes

I have a gift: I'm very lucky to be able to spot when a person is special.

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

I always think of myself as an audience first. If I like something, my assumption is that others, too, will like it.

Common sense varies among the young, as among the old.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

I think I have a very detailed sense of observation. I am interested in the details of people's lives and what information these details give.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

I don't take a scene or word for granted.

What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.

There are countless artists whose shoes I am not worthy to polish - whose prints would not pay the printer. The question of judgment is a puzzling one.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

You can't just trust to luck; you have to really listen to what that character is telling you.

When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

You have to trust yourself, not research. Not testing. Testing helps, but you have to trust your own taste. If your taste says something isn't any good, don't let research rationalize that out of its own truth.

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

Editing cannot be taught. Developing your own taste cannot be taught.

Some people have more sense than other people think they have.