Quotes About Aptitude

My generation, we came along, we had to really know our craft.

My generation was advised to focus on one area to excel.

I think I have a natural hitting ability.

I could never be a manager. All I have is natural ability.

As far as natural ability, I was always athletic.

I have the natural ability to pick things up a lot faster than I think most people would.

All I had was natural ability.

I think I have a natural, if I can say that, got a kind of natural ability in comedy.

I never took a music lesson in my life, it just came naturally.

I do believe some people can naturally act and don't know it.

I'm not naturally a gifted dancer, and I don't enjoy it.

Fencing and shooting kind of came naturally. From the start, I knew that I had it in me.

finding: people with the highest levels of intelligence (IQ) outperform those with average IQs just 20 percent of the time, while people with average IQs outperform those with high IQs 70 percent of the time.

people with the highest levels of intelligence (IQ) outperform those with average IQs just 20% percent of the time, while people with average IQs outperform those with high IQs 70% percent of the time.

The art of using moderate abilities to advantage wins praise, and often acquires more reputation than actual brilliancy.

In Paris she found Magnus, who was living in a garret apartment and paiting, an occupation for which he had no aptitude whatsoever. He let her sleep on a mattress by the window, and in the night, when she woke up screaming for Will, he came and put his arms around her, smelling of turpentine. "The first one is always the hardest," he said. "The first?" "The first one you love who dies," he said. "It gets easier, after.

In every [other] pursuit men without natural aptitude succeed by obstinate study of technique, but who is not a poet by nature can never become one by art.

He merely added that often you don't do what you would have liked to do in life, but that what you'd like to do isn't necessarily what you would be good at doing. Which, needless to say, is true.

Unless you think you can do better than Tolstoy, we don't need you.

you don't have to worry about "finding" your passion. You're naturally going to get passionate about what you are good at.

Most people are not truly talented at anything. However, most people can be pretty good at something.

doing what you are good at will only make you good;

There is all the difference in the world between knowing about and knowing how to do.

I don't regard myself as an entertainer. I don't think that's where my talents lie. It always feels a bit uncomfortable.