Quotes About Aptitude

I wouldn't even begin to presume that the talent of an able actor is anything like the talents of a prodigious musician.

We're all born with different talents. I'm really not that smart, but I can see things - financially and development-wise. It's just the way we're made.

I have no doubts about what my talents can do.

You've got to play to your players' talents.

Some people are born with talents, some people have to work on that.

Talking, being a better talker, wouldn't have been that hard. It was just, I was just naturally gifted at other things.

I am not very tall but I am intelligent as a soccer player.

It's cool to be able to dunk. I'm pretty tall and pretty long. My body's probably built more for basketball than for golf.

Think about it: If you don't have any actual, tangible skills, then how can you do anything? You may be laughing and nodding, but do you realize how few people, when asked the basic question, 'What can you do?' stumble on the answer and have nothing to say? Most people.

That the word intelligence describes something real and that it varies from person to person is as universal and ancient as any understanding about the state of being human.

he was led to put in formal terms what most people had always taken for granted: People vary in their intellectual abilities and the differences matter, to them personally and to society.

a curious result kept turning up: If the same group of people took two different mental tests, anyone who did well (or poorly) on one test tended to do similarly well (or poorly) on the other. In statistical terms, the scores on the two tests were positively correlated.

To his surprise he also discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as it had been possible to be bad at something, whether painting or poetry, that you cared about a great deal.

It's not my fault so much as my genius,

Sydney: I can do a lot of things, Adrian. And—at the risk of sounding egotistical —I mean, well, I can do a lot of pretty awesome things that most people can't." Adrian: "Don't I know it. You can change a tire in ten minutes while speaking Greek." Sydney: "Five minutes.

That's what humanity is: a series of successes and failures, a testing of one's own nature and aptitude. Neither the body nor the soul can sustain such a state. Eventually it consumes a person

obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence

He had to appreciate a creature that knew what it was doing.

skill and competence are far more important than friendly feelings.

You can either have high specific intelligence or high general intelligence, but not both.

But there were different types of intelligence, and not all of them were subject to analytic testing.

I know, baby girl, I'm that good.

I have a lot of respect for people with a lot of talent.

As a result, humans can perform very intricate tasks with their hands. In particular, they can produce and use sophisticated tools.