Quotes About Aptitude

John Henry (Cardinal) Newman

I myself have always disliked being called a "genius." It is fascinating to notice how quick people have been to intuit this aversion and avoid using the term.

I've figured out my learning curve. I can look at something and somehow know exactly how long it will take for me to learn it.

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.

La del agente secreto, como cualquier vida clandestina, requería talento, frialdad y aptitudes para la supervivencia. También capacidad de improvisación, saber adaptarse al entorno y facilidad para captar el conjunto por simples detalles.

We recruit for attitude and train for skill

The important thing is when you look at areas like physics and you realise that only one in five A-level students is a girl. We know it isn't about aptitude.

I'd read at a much higher-than-average grade level since, well, grade school.

We know that Morata always has been a great player.

Just as the great composer is seldom also a great player, so is the great mathematician seldom also a great teacher.

My greatest strength is my scoring ability. I've scored the ball at every level.

Women are just much better at getting degrees than men. It seems that school at every level plays to the natural strengths of women more than it does to men.

Some people don't need to work hard because they are so talented.

I always had a good dexterity. The story in my family goes that at the age of 3 I could thread needles faster than anybody.

I don't think there's any thrill in the world like doing work you're good at.

I always had the ability to throw a frisbee pretty well. I don't why.

Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.

It's important to focus on what we do best and master one craft at a time.

I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in less time that it takes me to buy a German Dictionary

I discovered that the predisposition for languages is as mysterious as the inclination of certain people for mathematics or music and has nothing to do with intelligence or knowledge. It is something separate, a gift that some possess and others don't.

Sería estúpido ignorar que entre los individuos hay inteligentes y tontos, diligentes o haraganes, inventivos o rutinarios y lerdos, estudiosos y perezosos, etcétera. Y sería injusto que en nombre de la «igualdad» todos recibieran el mismo salario pese a sus distintas aptitudes y méritos.

la predisposición para los idiomas es tan misteriosa como la de ciertas personas para las matemáticas o la música, no tiene nada que ver con la inteligencia ni el conocimiento. Es algo aparte, un don que algunos poseen y otros no.

You can't alter a man's nature. Oswald was born to be a master of hounds, and you were born to be a Secretary of State.

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