Quotes About Aptitude

no job, no matter how lowly, is truly 'unskilled.

Real ability is the child of God-given talent and rock solid diligence. Nobody maintains ability without hard work. Nobody.

I think we've debunked the myth of talent. It doesn't appear that there's anything like a music gene or center in the brain that Stevie Wonder has that nobody else has.

We don't do things we aren't good at by nature. I wouldn't play basketball because I'm only 5' 1". Find what you enjoy - whether it's racing, flying a helicopter, being a doctor, or stitching clothes together. Once you've done that, you have the passion you need.

At school, I wasn't as interested in mathematics. I did OK, but at the earliest point I could stop doing math, I stopped.

No, you're either born a writer, a storyteller, or you're not.

It sounds like generic advice, but you'd be hard-pressed to find any successful person who didn't have about three skills in the top 25%.

I think age is just a number - if you are young enough, you are old enough - as long as you are good enough, age shouldn't come into it.

I've always been talented, always been able to sing or remember a song after hearing it one time.

Genius is born, not paid.

It would seem to be an inexorable law of Nature that no man shall shine at both ends. If he has a high forehead and a thirst for wisdom, his fox-trotting (if any) shall be as the staggerings of the drunken; while, if he is a good dancer, he is nearly always petrified from the ears upward.

The more technique you have the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is the less there is.

well-directed though is a learned skill

First of all, said Serafim, there are no advanced skills; there is only skillful movement.

Emotional aptitude is a meta-ability , determining how well we can use whatever other skills we have , including raw inellect .

practical intelligence is rarely the main factor in a star's outstanding job performance.

What's missing in tests of ability is motivation

emotional aptitude is a meta-ability, determining how well we can use whatever other skills we have, including raw intellect.

Lo que distingue a las estrellas de los demás no es el coeficiente intelectual académico, sino el emocional.

One of his practical principles was to attend most to those pupils who were of middle ability; the dunces, he said, were beyond all help, and the geniuses would help themselves.

science can get along with talent, but art requires genius.

A] generation ago ... the thing to do was to get married at twenty-one and go to work immediately, regardless of one's equipment or inclination or aptitude. But now they grow up into the convention that youth, that being under thirty years of age, is a protracted sophomore course without lectures, in which one must spend one's entire time dressed like a caricature, drinking homemade booze and pawing at the opposite sex in the intervals of being arrested by traffic policeman.

Volunteering's an early and strong indication that you're not suited," he said.

Parents are often shocked, too, to hear that, once you control for aptitude, a person's lifetime earnings don't vary based on what college they attended. In other words, if you're smart enough to get into Yale, it doesn't really matter (from an income perspective) whether you go there or instead choose your much cheaper state university. The