Quotes About Aptitude

When you're good, you're good!" -Godmothers Series

I've reached the age where competence is a turn-on.

He can't think, he can't write. There's no discernible talent.

Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off.

Talent is like a container. You can work as hard as you want, but the size will never change. It'll only hold so much water and no more.

I had such a tie with my eyes and my hands. I could look at a telephone pole 40 yards away, take out a 7-iron, and hit it 10 times in a row. I had something special. And somehow, I really understood the game, all without having a lot of guidance.

I came to accept during my freshman year that many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural background, not lack of aptitude or application as I'd feared.

It's possible to train great people, but a person with great training who doesn't have certain characteristics is only going to go so far.

I think anybody can do any of these if they train. I don't recommend it, but anybody could do it if there was a need.

Jennifer Lawrence is a mastermind. She has no training and she's just so naturally good.

I cannot transfer my abilities to anyone, but I can think of quicker ways with which to help people develop numerical aptitude.

To go to the next level, you have to be special, and I look for those special qualities in those players, those qualities that I think will translate to the NFL.

I don't want an underachiever working on my car's transmission. Why would I want someone regular sitting in the Oval Office? Sorry, give me somebody who has demonstrated a capacity to excel.

each individual can only do one thing well. He can't do lots of things. If he tries, he will be jack of all trades, and master of none.

Some of us are killers. It's in our blood... that ability. It doesn't mean we walk around killing withour conscience, but we're just... better equipped to do it. Some people don't have it in them, but we do. You'll feel a lot better once you accept that.

It is an uncontrolled truth, that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them.

But we have learned to mistrust and despise our human aptitude for being entertained, and in that sense we get the entertainment we deserve.

Friendships are nice. So is competence.

Skills that have been well-practiced allow higher levels of arousal without becoming impaired than do newly learned skills.

They appeared to know enough to justify their jobs, and nothing more.

I think I'm good enough to play and sing.

I'm very interested in music, but I was not born musical. I honestly do think some people have the knack. I can't play an instrument. I'm a terrible singer. I'm not about to launch my album!

You can inculcate good acting and dancing abilities, but not singing.

I've got quite a good brain and all that, which I've never had to use in singing at all.