Quotes About Aptitude

Tennis, as we know, was not my sport. Sport, in fact, was not my sport.

General Napoleon says that ability is of little account without opportunity. The opposite is also correct: Opportunity is of little account without ability.

We tend to assume that when people are experts at one thing, their expertise extends to other areas as well.

They truly respect those who do grunt work, so much so that they are willing to promote them if they show the aptitude to be promoted.

Believe it or not, I can actually draw.

Of good natural parts, and of a liberal education.

So people take intelligence very seriously, because the mental ability we call by that name can be measured by tests; whereas few bother about how sensitive, altruistic, or helpful someone is, because as yet there is no good way to measure such qualities.

Competence can be a curse

Choose a man on account of his skills.

Not everyone can sing, draw or dance. Generally speaking, we are all born with unique talents.

Let the path be open to talent.

Ability is of little account without opportunity.

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

Confidence is that feeling that you can do something (or that you know something) so well you don't have to think about how to do it when you're doing it. That skill or knowledge is in you, it's part of you, and it will come out when needed if you let it.

In fact, the assumption that smartness is something you "have" had led to such nonsensical terms as over-and underachievers.

Running taught me valuable lessons. Training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.

Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did. Even as a student, I saw many young men who had great natural ability, but who did not have the self-discipline and patience to build on their endowment.

En las competiciones campo a través, el entrenamiento es más importante que cualquier talento innato, y eso me permitía compensar mi falta de aptitudes naturales por medio de la disciplina y la diligencia. Aplicaba este principio a todo lo que hacía.

Talent is putting skills into productive use.

There is something that the "Naturals" are doing that they don't know they are doing. And no matter how many times they tell you their so called "Secrets of Success", they can't tell you something they're not consciously aware of. It's like saying to a fish, "so tell me about water".

I don't actually have a lot of discipline. I've worked hard at music. But I feel like you know, I felt like kind of natural at it. I always had a knack for it.

If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.

One cannot learn how to be creative by reading Marx. Either one is creative or one is not.

Universality is the distinguishing mark of genius. There is no such thing as a special genius, a genius for mathematics, or for music, or even for chess, but only a universal genius. … The theory of special genius, according to which for instance, it is supposed that a musical genius should be a fool at other subjects, confuses genius with talent. … There are many kinds of talent, but only one kind of genius, and that is able to choose any kind of talent and master it.