Quotes About Aptness

I always thought clichés got a bum rap. Because, often, they're dead-on. But the aptness of the clichéd saying is overshadowed by the nature of the saying as a cliché.

I just always had a knack for handling and passing the rock and making things happen.

There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time.

la predisposición para los idiomas es tan misteriosa como la de ciertas personas para las matemáticas o la música, no tiene nada que ver con la inteligencia ni el conocimiento. Es algo aparte, un don que algunos poseen y otros no.

There is an aptness, a propriety, a fitness in these things which one can understand perhaps better than explain.

In an aphorism, aptness counts for more than truth.

there is no one circumstance in which the distempers of the mind bear a more exact analogy to those which are called bodily, than that aptness which both have to a relapse.

Job-interviewing is just a skill. Like any skill, some people have more of a predisposition for it than others.

whether to follow uncritically the track he finds himself in, without considering his aptness for it, or to consider what his aptness or bent may be, and reshape his course accordingly. I tried to do the latter, and I failed. But I don't admit that my failure proved my view to be a wrong one, or that my success would have made it a right one; though that's how we appraise such attempts nowadays.

I've always had a niche for entertaining since I was a little girl.

Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task   I

In an aphorism, aptness counts for more than truth