A Quote by Sally Kirkland

So I have this ability, if I may say so, to spot talent.

Sally Kirkland

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Ability May Say Spot Talent

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Sally Kirkland
American - Actress
Born: October 31, 1944

The ability to work hard for days on end without losing focus is a talent. The ability to keep absorbing new information after many hours of study is a talent.

Garry Kasparov

Talent is talent, and everybody knows somebody who has talent or ability, but they never really converted it into a productive performance for whatever reasons.

Nick Saban

I say that being a smart writer doesn't make you a good writer. There's obviously a difference between talent and intelligence. And it may be that at some point intelligence begins to impinge on talent, or talent on intelligence.

Gustavo Perez Firmat

I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people's ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That's the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.

Rahul Dravid

Many people don't have the ability to be rich, because they're too lazy or they don't have the desire or the stick-to-itiveness. It's a talent. Some people have a talent for piano. Some people have a talent for raising a family. Some people have a talent for golf. I just happen to have a talent for making money.

Donald Trump

If people can spot talent rather than the talent having to come to us, then I think you might find that the quality of stuff goes up.

Graham Linehan

I like to teach. And when I spot talent without ambition, it makes me angry. I give students short shrift if they're not willing to do the work. Relying on talent is not enough.

F. Murray Abraham

The ability to write compelling emails may be the single most useful talent an organizer can possess.

Bill McKibben

Talent is the ability to say things well, but genius is the ability to, well, say things.

Steve Martin

It must be that to govern a nation you need a specific talent and that this may very well exist without general ability.

W. Somerset Maugham

Talent--that is to say, the ability to see the world in a unique way--matures and grows in isolation.

Mieczyslaw Jastrun

There are many designers who have much greater talent as a designer than I do, but they may not have my drive, they may not work as hard, they may not have the focus, the desire... You have to have a talent because, at the end of the day, if the pants you design don't make someone's butt look great, they're not going to buy them.

Tom Ford

Musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed. Any child who is properly trained can develop musical ability just as all children develop the ability to speak their mother tongue. The potential of every child is unlimited.

Shinichi Suzuki

Not every child has an equal talent or an equal ability or equal motivation, but they should have the equal right to develop their talent and their ability and their motivation, to make something of themselves.