Quotes About Aptitude

It's just always been a knack for me to play defense.

Sports is just something I have a knack to figure out how to play.

Kobe can play in any league.

No domestic animal can be as still as a wild animal. The civilized people have lost the aptitude of stillness, and must take lessons in silence from the wild before they are accepted by it.

Another flawless lie. I may not do it often but I shine at it like I do most things.

I had an ear for languages, and I could read before I could adequately wash myself. I probably could have vied with Jeanette for the number one spot, but I'd seen what happened if you gave in to your natural aptitudes. This wasn't like the woods, where you had to be your fastest and your strongest and your bravest self. Different sorts of calculations were required to survive at the home.

get into something that you love, that you have an aptitude for, and where you're totally happy.

Success is 80 attitude and 20 aptitude.

My own experience and a lot of research tell me that you already have what it takes to be a highly competent negotiator.

You're incredibly gifted, Sam. But it is worth noting that to be good at something is not quite the same as loving it.

He had begun to suspect that while he had an obvious aptitude for math, he was not particularly inspired by it.

Everyone should learn to do one thing supremely well because he likes it, and one thing supremely well because he detests it.

Competence is NOT enough.

There is something rather sexy about men who knew exactly what they are talking about. Men who might not be conventionally attractive, but who are obviously highly competent at their jobs.

If you fail at the large things it means you have not large ambitions. Concentration, focus - that is all. The aptitudes come, the tools forge themselves.

If you fail at the large things it means you have not large ambitions. Concentration, focus Ã¢â'¬â€œ that is all. The aptitudes come, the tools forge themselves. "Give me a fulcrum and I will move the world" Ã¢â'¬â€œ but only if the desire to move the world is there.

Those who can, do; those who can't learn classification and cataloguing.

A woman can only do so much with mediocre equipment

To young people born under the weird planet of the SAT, intelligence was equated with agility, with raw acuity. It produced a certain sort of person of which I was a typical specimen: the mental contortionist, able to rise to almost every challenge placed before him, except the challenge of real self-knowledge.

But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer.

I think a lot of musicians and artists are really one that really only have one trick.

Knowing one thing well empowers you and gives you a set of tricks to the trade that you can apply across the board. Go deep, and it will serve you when you make your choices about where you want to leave your mark.

I am not interested in what a man can't do. I want to know what he CAN do.

Although the role of serendipity is familiar, what's not so well appreciated is how different serendipity is from luck. Serendipity is not just an apparent aptitude for making fortunate discoveries accidentally, as my dictionary defines it. Serendipitous discoveries are always made by people in a particular frame of mind, people who are focused and alert because they're searching for something. They just happen to find something else.