Quotes About Aptitude

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.

Now, let me say this about education. I've said it till I'm blue-green. Not everybody is cut out for the traditional pathway of a four-year degree.

Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.

I used to be the best comic actor in my batch. Everyone knew that my comic timing was impeccable.

I'm good at what I do but, to be honest, not a whole hell of a lot else!

She was very much ahead of her fellow students and, had she been with others as mentally mature as herself, she would have shown herself even more capable.

They were not hired for their looks or their sophistication; the most competent ones specialized in puzzles, music, and foreign languages.

Only in homeopathy do you get specific remedies for people who believe they are made of glass, have a delusion that they are selling green vegetables, or have an aptitude for, or a horror of, mathematics.

Last time I checked I was able to throw the ball a little bit.

To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement.

Competence was attractive.

Ser bueno en algo era interesante.

capability. Rudy was surprisingly good.

It is all very well to say that a man is clever, but the reader wants to see examples of it...

knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius, and

Said in reference to Ludwig Wittgenstein: Talent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target others cannot even see.

Talentul e precum un ?inta? care love?te o ?int? pe care ceilal?i nu o pot nimeri; geniul e precum un ?inta? care love?te o ?int? pe care ceilal?i nu o pot vedea.

The brightest boys did mathematics and physics. The less bright did biology.

Writers are born, not created.

Schools don't teach people to reason thoroughly; they select the applicants with higher IQs, and people with higher IQs are able to generate more reasons.

It is a crime every time we ask ourselves how smart a person is, instead of asking ourselves what makes that person smart.

I don't have technique because I never learnt any.

Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.