Quotes About Aptitude

We must all be cut out for what we do, he thought. However you make your living is where your talent lies.

brilliance is a kind of binary thing. You either got it or you don't. If you do, a 130 IQ and a 170 aren't that different, so long as you know how to apply what you got.

To Hitler, personal and ideological loyalty was more important than professional aptitude and performance.

political talent is the least hereditary of our tendencies'.

I want the president of the United States to be intellectually curious for a simple reason: I think the person running the country should be smarter than I am. We've just lived through the alternative, and it was only good for the liquor industry.

What are the two or three things that you and only you are responsible for? What, specifically, have you been hired to do? What is "success" for the person in your position? Now let's slice it even thinner. Of the two or three things that define success for you, which of those are in line with your giftedness? Of the tasks you have been assigned to do, which of them are you specifically gifted to do?

Si una cocinera no huele bien, no es puntual, rápida, prolija alegra y un poco desvergonzada, le había dicho, no sirve para cocinera; puede ser que sepa cocinar pero no sirve para cocinera y tarde o temprano eso se nota.

My message is get into what you love and really want to do and can do. And there are these tests you can take for that. All the colleges have them.

IQ is equivalent to chip speed, and superior chip speed will enable certain things that inferior chip speed will not enable. The same is true about just about any human attribute you can think of that has no relationship to IQ whatsoever.

I tested in the top percentile for IQ, but I couldn't tie my shoes or really ride a bike without training wheels until I was almost 7.

I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get into and hold a job in, whether you can be an accountant, lawyer or nurse, for example.

You never want to be the one who everyone is going to bust jokes on. The only way to prevent that is to be good at something.

I have a knack for winning prizes; it must be something Ive done!

You need to know a lot to become master of your profession.

From my first days in training, I had a knack for the nuts and bolts of my profession.

I'm talented enough to do a lot of different things.

I think everyone has leadership inside them, but in different ways.

The reason I've gotten so far has to do with an extraordinary talent that I had nothing to do with.

Age is never a factor if talent is there.

You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.

You can't fake being able to cook well.

Well, in any art there are a lot of technical things that you can get to like.

I don't see myself as necessarily a very creative person. I'm a technical guy.

I wasn't the greatest technician when I played.