Quotes About Aptitude

As the father of three daughters, I can tell you, not every kid is cut out to be a STEM graduate.

No good workman without good tools.

it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.

No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

Can't tell, Si. Never had no talent that way.

Writers are born, not created.

I have no interest in directing. I've no talent for it.

Nobody gets to be good at something without effort, no matter what your aptitude is.

I can hold a note, but that's about it.

I wasn't the best student, and for some reason, I always got music. While other people were having trouble figuring out notes on a page, I could listen to it once and play it back.

I'm saying nothing new that Dave Pasquesi is really good at what he does.

Sometimes the better an actor is, the less he's noticed.

Nowadays, to be a good world-ranked decathlete, you need to be good at everything.

There are people who are good for letters and others that are good for numbers.

It is a natural gift I was born with but it's something I've had to nurture in training.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

You are either born a writer or you are not.

They're not any smarter than they have to be and they're just as smart as they need to be.

A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse—not a remarkable mathematician.

The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.

the shock which he undoubtedly had felt was the result of not expecting people to murder other people. "Whereas they naturally do," he said to himself. "The normal thing with an unpleasant intrusion is to try and exclude it – human or not. So silly not to be prepared for these things. Some people, as De Quincey said, have a natural aptitude for being murdered. To kill or to be killed as a perfectly reasonable thing . . .

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

I learnt early that always being analytical is important for a business. Being analytical as an attitude is more important than just having the aptitude.