Quotes About Aptitude

everyone by nature was suited to a particular activity, which ideally they would pursue.

Svoboda was not a brilliant man. He was a man of what used to be known as average and is now known as above-average intelligence.

baseball is a game played by the dexterous, but only understood by the Poindexterous."9

Which people show you an attitude, they people have not an aptitude...

We have a great number of ways of being intelligent, many of which don't show up on IQ tests.

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.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it.

Talent alone does not make someone an expert.

I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.

Are you teachable or not? Listen up, you've got to be teachable for life. Because, until and unless you are teachable, you cannot learn something new. Yes! if you are not willing to learn no one can teach you. Besides that, if you are not determined to learn no one can persuade you to learn. Now that is to say, teachability (ability and willingness to learn) is the key to learning. So come on, be teachable for life. As well, be apt (quick to learn) at all times. ~Emeasoba George

Confidence is a prerequisite to competence. Yes! because when your confidence grows, your competence is bound to grow along with it. I mean, self-confidence boosts competence unimaginably.

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

I'm not a total chump. I write stuff that's reasonably musically complex.

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

I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.

I happen to think, really, that I'm good at what I do.

To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form.

I think I have a high boxing IQ and I do this at a really high level.

Not everybody can do everything at a high level.

I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college.

A Clinton staffer tells me his theory. Think about Frank Sinatra, he says: born to sing. Think about Willie Mays: born to play ball. These guys got their power from living lives perfectly suited to their natures. Same with Clinton: his life is perfectly suited to his nature.

There's no skill and no grace to it, but you

A skilled worker, regardless of the job description, remains a treasure.

If you can't handle some of the basic stuff that's become a problem in the workforce today, then you don't belong in the workforce.