Quotes About Aptitude

All you need is the will and the skill

How do we end up doing whatever it is we're doing? If people didn't already have an affinity for a task, would they pursue it? Do people start out saying to themselves, gee, I suck at this math stuff, I guess I'll become an astrophysicist.

I was honestly more talented in soccer than in basketball. I don't think I'd have gone anywhere in soccer. But I think I was more talented in soccer.

I could have played soccer if I wanted.

Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

Job-interviewing is just a skill. Like any skill, some people have more of a predisposition for it than others.

Some people are good with children. Others are not. It is a gift. You either have it, or you don't. My father didn't.

I think if somebody knows how to play the game, he or she can play anywhere. You know how to fit in.

I guess somehow I got a reputation of being able to dance.

Vision, sometimes called talent, is not a teachable attribute. What

O talento natural é como a força de um atleta. Pode-se nascer com mais ou menos faculdades, mas ninguém consegue ser um atleta simplesmente por ter nascido alto ou forte ou rápido. O que faz um atleta, ou um artista é o trabalho , o ofício e a técnica. A inteligência com que se nasce é simplesmente a munição. Para se chegar a fazer alguma coisa com ela é necessário transformarmos a nossa mente numa arma de precisão.

good looks aren't enough. Skill is the most important thing. Skill and talent.

Yes, Manda. You're becoming a good detective.

Obviously you've got the aptitude for the job." Gullibility and poor judgment must be prerequisites.

Messi has a divine gift.

I'm better on the pitch than with the microphone.

Hans Castorp erfuhr, daß man eine Fertigkeit rasch gewinnt, deren man innerlich bedürftig ist.

Whatever your aptitudes, the greatest source of achievement is passion. Aptitude matters, but passion often matters more… If you love doing something, you'll be constantly drawn to get better at it.

Many people go through their whole lives having no real sense of what their talents may be, or if they have any to speak of. Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for them, they're not just lying around on the surface.

Too many feel that what they're good at isn't valued by schools.

The features are aptitude and passion. The conditions are attitude and opportunity. The sequence goes something like this: I get it; I love it; I want it; Where is it?

you must master the art of quickly learning complicated things.

Better technique trumps more effort.

I think maybe traveling is like a talent, like whistling or dancing. And some people have it--you seem to.