Aptitude famous quotes
04-01-2025
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To be a textual critic requires aptitude for thinking and willingness to think; and though it also requires other things, those things are supplements and cannot be substitutes. Knowledge is good, method is good, but one thing beyond all others is necessary; and that is to have a head, not a pumpkin, on your shoulders and brains, not pudding, in your head.
-- A. E. Housman -
Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.
-- A. E. Waite -
Genius consists of equal parts of natural aptitude and hard work.
-- Andre Maurois -
Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
-- Anton Chekhov -
In aptitude tests, I scored highest in music.
-- Conrad Hall -
The thought of dancing scared me. A lot. Because I have absolutely no aptitude for it.
-- Daniel Radcliffe -
In the words of a very famous dead person, 'A nation that does not know its history is doomed to do poorly on the Scholastic Aptitude Test.
-- Dave Barry -
The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.
-- Denis Waitley -
Moreover it is becoming the Britons, whether scientific or unscientific, who boast at all fitting occasions of their aptitude to rule the waves, should know something of the population of their saline empire, especially of those parts of it immediately in contact with their terrestrial domain, and the coasts of the Continent to which our United Kingdom appertains.
-- Edward Forbes -
The sea is selective, slow at recognition of effort and aptitude but fast in the sinking of the unfit.
-- Felix Riesenberg -
Archery is something that I took up later and didn't know I had a natural aptitude for.
-- Geena Davis -
Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.
-- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon -
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.
-- Geraldine Brooks -
There is no field other than the weird in which I have any aptitude or inclination for fictional composition. Life has never interested me so much as the escape from life.
-- H. P. Lovecraft -
[About John Evershed] There is much in our medallist's career which is a reminder of the scientific life of Sir William Huggins. They come from the same English neighbourhood and began as amateurs of the best kind. They both possess the same kind of scientific aptitude.
-- Hugh Newall -
Now in my theater training I showed no aptitude at all.
-- Jeremy Irons -
People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
The locus of corporate innovations has been product development. But in times of rapid and unpredictable change, the creation of individual products becomes less important than the creation of a general organizational aptitude for innovation.
-- John Seely Brown -
Being in your element is not only about aptitude, it's about passion: it is about loving what you do...tapping into your natural energy and your most authentic self.
-- Ken Robinson -
He lacks much who has no aptitude for idleness.
-- Louise Wilder -
Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is verbal ability.
-- Marissa Mayer -
No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.
-- T. S. Eliot -
Inherited aptitudes and traits of temperament count for quite as much as length of habituation in deciding what range of habits will come to dominate any individual's scheme of life.
-- Thorstein Veblen -
I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work.
-- Toby Young -
I think it would be folly to expect that women will ever dominate or even approach equal representation in a large number of areas simply because their aptitudes, abilities and interests are different for physiological reasons
-- Tony Abbott -
Your attitude is more important that your aptitude.
-- Zig Ziglar -
You're born with certain gifts and you use them as best you can in life. You begin to learn and recognize that you have certain skills and aptitudes that you apply and use them to carry you forward.
-- Bernie Ecclestone
