Quotes About Aptitude

I had a guidance counsellor who made me take an aptitude test, and told me I should be a bricklayer.

In aptitude tests, I scored highest in music.

But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.

Poverty is perpetual active vigil and expectation before the eternal sources of creativity; it is the soul awaiting that which is new and unexpected; it is the aptitude for learning always and everywhere; it is the conditio sine qua non of all illumination, all revelation and all initiation.

Is there anything you can do?' 'Well, in college I was studying-' 'Don't give me your goddamned life story! I'm interested in your trade, skill, talent, profession, ability, whatever you want to call it. What, specifically, can you do?' 'Well,'Marvin said, 'I guess, when you put it that way, I can't do anything much.

Getting something and having the wits to use it are two different things.

Talent isn't genius.

talent isn't genius and you can't make it so

I can tell you, she really knows her job. So do boa constrictors, said Audrey.

Too many kids today are playing major league ball and don't belong there.

If there was ever a man born to be a hitter it was me.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

Strength is not energy; some authors have more muscles than talent.

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

I have never been a child prodigy. When I think back to my childhood, I can not discern any sign of future success. My only real talent couldn't be found in any curriculum: whistling.

Once you learn to do it, you'll be expected to do it.

When you know that you know "how" to do something, you're on your way to mastering it.

A raccoon could have been trained to do better than I was doing, though it would have to be a smart raccoon.

Intelligens är kapaciteten att förvärva kapacitet.

No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.

Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude.

I've found in my life that the parts that you're right for are the parts that you get. It's really usually quite easy because you're kind of right.

A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.