Quotes About Aptitude

I think anybody can be a good actor.

Suppose you applied this principle outside bridge? Suppose that coincidence and other chance happenings weren't really as chancy as they looked? Suppose there were individuals with a special aptitude for calling the turns, making the breaks? But that was a pretty obvious idea—nothing to give a person the shiver it had given him.

To use a man for what he is naturally best fitted is to keep him, if one can, from apostasy and dissatisfaction. At the same time, life's temptations come most often from that for which one has the greatest aptitude.

I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light.

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

I think I chose wisely. When it came down to it, I knew I was a better goalkeeper than I was a bowler.

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.

Some hidden talent lies within everyone.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.

For ten years, I went to piano lessons. I don't think I'm a very musical person, and the theory quite defeated me, but I had a freak aptitude for Debussy and Ravel.

They say Montenegrins are intelligent, and maybe that's why I was pretty good in school.

I just always had a knack for handling and passing the rock and making things happen.

What's nice about having an engineering degree is everybody thinks you are smart.

And some can pot begonias and some can bud a rose, And some are hardly fit to trust with anything that grows...

In coding, as in carpentry, you need the right tool for the job.

You have to have a talent for having talent.

You have a genius.

So much technology, so little talent.

So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble.

You can be a great DJ and still be not very good at DJ Hero. And vice-versa: You can have never spun in your life on real turntables and be fine on DJ Hero.

Acting was always a part and faucet of my life. It just comes very natural. I think it's a good thing.

Talent [by which I think she meant technique] without genius is not worth much; but genius without talent is worth nothing whatsoever.