Quotes About Aptitude

What else can she do?" she asks. "She's not a trick monkey." "She'd never make it as a trick monkey. She only has one trick," Piper says. "487 times 6,421 is 3,127,027," Nat says.

Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can.

I have always known I had talent, LOL, but to be called a 'talent' feels a little strange - but well within my comfort zone!

'What would you call the highest happiness?' Wratislaw was asked. 'The sense of competence,' was the answer, given without hesitation.

Doing easily what others find is difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

There's no trick of teaching acting. Either someone wants to do it and is gifted, or not.

The soldiers currently manning our sophisticated weaponry have room temperature IQ's.

Be the best at what you're good at

It's a rare combination to have someone who can write songs and sing well.

Everyone has a talent. It's simply a question of good discipline, of the good fortune to have an education that meshes with that talent, and a lot of luck.

If you really are smarter than others, show them with your actions.

I suspect the I.Q., SAT, and school grades are tests designed by nerds so they can get high scores in order to call each other intelligent...Smart and wise people who score low on IQ tests, or patently intellectually defective ones, like the former U.S. president George W. Bush, who score high on them (130), are testing the test and not the reverse.

Mathematicians are born, never made. Physicists and quants too. I

Their strength is extremely domain-specific

They haven't the mental equipment for leisure.

Mom could have been a great sniper if she had chosen that line of work.

His best talent had yet to be determined, unless you counted unrealized potential.

Joe Kennedy isn't in the habit of having incompetents around. I wouldn't have lasted three months if I didn't have some ability.

I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.

I know something about a lot of things, she countered evenly. That's why you're grooming me to be your lieutenant, remember? - Mara Jade

All this only proves that you don't have to be a nice person to be extremely talented. You can be a shit and be talented and, conversely, you can be the nicest guy in the world and not have any talent. Stanley Kubrick is a talented shit.

The language sticks to them like cat hair to black trousers, and they do things correctly without knowing why.

Passion isn't enough, but when passion meets aptitude it can change the world.

People may start with different temperaments and different aptitudes, but it is clear that experience, training, and personal effort take them the rest of the way.