Quotes About Aptitude

Prodigios o no, todos tenemos intereses que pueden florecer como habilidades.

It's as if Midori popped out of the womb fiddling, Michael Jordan dribbling, and Picasso doodling. This captures the fixed mindset perfectly.

Or, as his forerunner Binet recognized, it's not always the people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.

Pissing is the least of my talents. You ought to see me shit

Why give a horse to a man who cannot ride?

If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires aptitude.

He could fiddle all the bugs off a sweet-potato vine.

It is one thing to be gifted and quite another thing to be worthy of one's own gift.

The same man cannot be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.

To every man according to his ability.

Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly.

The surest sign of fitness is success.

Many people have the ambition to succeed; they may even have a special aptitude for their job. And yet they do not move ahead. Why? Perhaps they think that since they can master the job, there is no need to master themselves.

Conciseness is the sister of talent.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtures are of no avail.

Never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

Everybody undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has the aptitude for it or not.

One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, whereas I should keep to the butcher's trade.

I got a weakness for the sizzle, and the smarts. I don't care what chromosomes somebody's got, I just go for sizzle or smarts. Somebody's got both? I'm a goner.

Comes off like she's got the mental capacity of broccoli

Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.

I think if you're good at art, you'll be good at most types of art.

Ultimately, it's your talent that counts.

I love doing comedy. Absolutely love it. After 'Wedding Crashers,' people suddenly realized that it was something I could do.