Quotes About Aptitude

When the job you are doing is neither above nor below your talents but at your level, you are neither exhausted nor bored and depressed. You suddenly have new energy and creativity.

In the absence of genius there is always craftsmanship.

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.

Some can do things others cannot," Nandera said, as if that was enough explanation.

Moiraine had been taught to judge people's capabilities long before she left home.

A workman should know his tools, and not use them to breaking. The same went for people.

The difference between a good mechanic and a bad one, like the difference between a good mathematician and a bad one, is precisely this ability to select the good facts from the bad ones on the basis of quality.

Talent should not imply a need for great exertion. =

A genius is someone who excels at something. But a genius isn't necessarily good at everything. In fact, a genius usually has a special ability in one area while being pretty average in others.

In fact, it's pretty easy once you get the hang of it.

the ones who get up every day and diligently go to work and pay taxes. If they only understood the way the rich play the game, they could play it too. Then they would be on their way to their own financial independence. This is why I cringe every time I hear a parent advise their children to go to school so they can find a safe, secure job. An employee with a safe, secure job, without financial aptitude, has no escape.

Tener aventuras es algo natural para algunas personas - dijo Ana serenamente - O se tienen, o no se tienen los dotes para vivirlas. Ana de Avonlea

If you have tendencies you've got to have scope

I was a catastrophe at Science and Games, but the good thing about Quaker schools is that they encourage you in those subjects for which you show an aptitude.

For any serious purpose, intelligence is a very minor gift.

Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't.

If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the Gods must clearly smile on hunting.

Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.

uno no es más duro e inescrupuloso que todos los demás, lo destruirán, con o sin remordimientos. Hemos regresado a la sombría verdad del mundo darwiniano: los que sobreviven son invariablemente los más aptos. O, más bien, la supervivencia es la prueba última de que uno está en buena forma.

If there is anything a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance

but they are commonly more distinguished by their superiority in the latter than in the former. Their

Let's talk about the SAT. You got a 2280.

I guess I'm a better baker than I am a cook.

He knew everything when he started. The others can't ever learn what he was born with.