Quotes About Aptitude

Success is 80% attitude and 20% aptitude.

Each of us has more intelligence than we are trained to use and the part that we get graded on in school doesn't amount to much.

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

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You're not very good at this, are you?' 'At what I do, I'm the best. This isn't what I do.

If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.

La capacidad de hacer algo con presteza es siempre muy elogiada por su poseedor, quien a menudo no advierte la imperfección que lo acompaña.

Oh! certainly," cried his faithful assistant, "no one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.

Yeah. My skill level is so high I do things I don't even try to do.

The reality is that a person who has always struggled with numbers is unlikely to be a great accountant or statistician.

I believe I am a person with unusual talents. I think I'd be a liar or stupid if I were to deny that.

Upper berth, lower berth, that's the difference between talent and genius.

Not every person has the same kinds of talents, so you discover what yours are and work with them.

To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

Handle your tools without mittens.

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

You either have the magic or you don't. There's no way you can work up to it.

Every person on the face of the earth has a gift. In some this reveals itself spontaneously, others have to work to find it.

You have to get comfortable [with your work], you really have to know what you're doing, and it has to be almost boring to you to be able to do it well.

A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.

Some people are born with the necessary gift, and some work hard to build on the few gifts they have.