Quotes About Aptitude

I believe every actor gets some chance or the other to show his capability.

I think there's so many actors out there that we see and we know as one thing but are capable of so much more.

Everyone is capable of everything.

When you have to make a choice between capacity and capability, I would go with capability.

I've obviously got the brains. I've got the cardio.

There's a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school.

There are certain things you can't coach, you've got to watch a guy do it.

I don't learn in a certain way, but I have other skills.

It's a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly.

In normal circumstances, if you want a job done well, you chose someone with experience doing that job.

You can tell when somebody is chosen basketball-wise. You can tell.

I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least part of the work.

Danny knew far more about science than was taught in his grade in school, and could do long division in his head and use a slide rule as easily as he could throw a baseball

An aptitude test established architecture as an alternative [career]. But what decided the matter for [Teddy Cruz] was the sight of a fourth-year architecture student sitting at his desk at a window, drawing and nursing a cup of coffee as rain fell outside. 'I don't know, I just liked the idea of having this relationship to the paper and the adventure of imagining the spaces. That was the first image that captured me.

It always works when you know what you're doing

I could not bear his expression. That look said, this is a long good-bye, yet not time enough. I have no aptitude for this. I cannot learn this. I would hold on, and hold on, until my hands clutch at emptiness.

In the past, a woman could get along without an analytical mind; but not any more. A woman who wanted to be the equal of Westerners and a fine woman wasn't very promising is she had no aptitude for systematic thinking and analysis.

We can quibble about what precise percentage of performance it accounts for, but no one can seriously question that smartness—the intellectual ability to do the job—is one of the primary determinants of whether someone succeeds or fails at managerial work.

Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else.

The tools belong to the man who can use them.

A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.

What's the use of askin' a man to execute if he can't execute?

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.