Quotes About Aptitude

Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.

I never had a problem with technique.

You lose speed, that's normal, but the technique you never lose.

Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If you're a sportsman or you're a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you have to develop a basic technique to know what you're doing at any given time.

Messi has the best technique in the world.

Technique wasn't my favorite thing to learn, and I doubt I would be great teaching it.

I only do work that suits my temperament.

Il talento sta nelle scelte

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

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

Paul Goodman commented that "Few great men could pass personnel.

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Pierpont selected partners not by wealth or to fortify the bank's capital but based on brains and talent.

John, I might have known it. You do things better and more easily than anyone else.

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

There's no use fussing on a boy who doesn't have any ability.

Ability is a poor man's wealth.

Past performance speaks a tremendous amount about one's ability and likelihood for success.

I think there are some players born to play ball.

You can never have enough talent.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

To develop a strength in any activity requires certain natural talents.

Satisfactions provide the last clue to talent. As we described in the previous chapter, your strongest synaptic connections are designed so that when you use them, it feels good. Thus, obviously, if it feels good when you perform an activity, chances are that you are using a talent.

Just because you were good at something didn't mean it was a match with your personality or psyche.