Robert Half Quotes

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

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

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

Just because you like something, that doesn't mean that you have a feel for it.

Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

I've been in this business long enough to recognize genuine talent.

I've got a good set of eyeballs on me, so I can spot talent.

Even my enemies would acknowledge that I'm a great judge of talent, and this statement will be proven true time and time again.

Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.

I love that perhaps we don't see the things that are there because we have no yardstick to see things by, to compare them.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?

Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.

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.

Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

I'm not particularly good at anything. I'm not an incredible guitarist or piano player or songwriter. I think what I do is, when I notice someone is really good at something, I try to get that out of them.

Judge of a jest when you have done laughing.

People who know, know. The others, it really doesn't matter.

The President has a quick and able mind, though not everybody gives him that, not by a long shot.