Top 155 Aptitude Quotes & Sayings

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

In giving advice, aptitude is often less to be considered, than seasonableness.

Yes, I have political aptitude and attitude too.

Archery is something that I took up later and didn't know I had a natural aptitude for.

University: ... a place where rich men send their sons who have no aptitude for business.

Honestly, I never really thought I'd be a comedian. But I did take an aptitude test in seventh grade - and this is 100 percent true - I took an aptitude test in seventh grade, and it said in my best profession was a clown or a mime.

Nobody gets to be good at something without effort, no matter what your aptitude is.

Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude.

I cannot transfer my abilities to anyone, but I can think of quicker ways with which to help people develop numerical aptitude.

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.

I had a natural aptitude for wanting to be the centre of attention and a definite skill for annoying people.

He lacks much who has no aptitude for idleness.

For most of the early hires you make in a startup, experience doesn't matter very much, and you should go for aptitude.

When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.

I was a catastrophe at Science and Games, but the good thing about Quaker schools is that they encourage you in those subjects for which you show an aptitude.

Each man has an aptitude born with him. Do your work.

Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.

I must have been born with a strong attraction toward, and possibly even an aptitude for, doing things on a small scale.

That's what humanity is: a series of successes and failures, a testing of one's own nature and aptitude. Neither the body nor the soul can sustain such a state. Eventually it consumes a person

Now in my theater training I showed no aptitude at all.

People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.

I had a guidance counsellor who made me take an aptitude test, and told me I should be a bricklayer.

The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude.

Everyone has some natural talent or aptitude in one or more areas. If you can identify those areas you not only will be happier and perform more successfully in that role, but you will also become better paid for that. Our free-market system pays for performance at some point. When you have a natural talent or aptitude, coupled with desire and experience, the result is productivity plus.

Aptitude starts with attitude.

There are actually no political aspirations. I think you need to have the right attitude and aptitude for it. I don't think I have the right aptitude for it. I think it is unfair to push somebody in that direction just because my father happens to be a politician.

Artists, musicians, scientists - if you have any kind of visionary aptitude, it's often something that you don't have a choice in. You have to do it.

Attitude and not the Aptitude decide the Altitude you reach in life.

Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.

Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.

Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.

Genius consists of equal parts of natural aptitude and hard work.

In Russia, show the least athletic aptitude and they've got you dangling off the parallel bars with a leotard full of hormones.

Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.

Most do violence to their natural aptitude, and thus attain superiority in nothing.

For a lot of children of immigrants, what happens is your parents want you to do something very linear that they can understand. I had an aptitude in sciences and never really questioned it.

mixing comes natural. i just ought to. not am i mixed to perfection, i have aptitude for art and colors.

A power of Butterfly must be - The Aptitude to fly Meadows of Majesty concedes And easy Sweeps of Sky -

The name of the game is continuing to learn. Even if you're very well trained and have some natural aptitude, you still need to keep learning.

I have huge respect for the musical aptitude and intellect of listeners in India. They appreciate genuine, quality music.

I believe my most important skill is an ability to perceive patterns in the market. I think this aptitude for pattern recognition is probably related to my heavy involvement with music.

All my life I have dealt with objective matters; hence I lack both the natural aptitude and the experience to deal properly with people and to carry out official functions.

For ten years, I went to piano lessons. I don't think I'm a very musical person, and the theory quite defeated me, but I had a freak aptitude for Debussy and Ravel.

We must infer that a plant or animal of any species, is made up of special units, in all of which there dwells the intrinsic aptitude to aggregate into the form of that species: just as in the atoms of a salt, there dwells the intrinsic aptitude to crystallize in a particular way.?

The divine element manifests itself (or show up) in man as well by his aptitude for science, than by his aptitude for virtue. True morality, true philosophy and true art are in their essence ("dans leur essence", Fr.) religious."

The president of a TV network generously agreed to take his company's aptitude test, a test required of all the personnel. He did badly. As a result he was in a sullen mood for the rest of the day. When he got home that night, his wife asked why he looked so grouchy. I took the company's aptitude test this morning. What did it show? asked the wife. It showed, boomed the executive, that such tests are idiotic. That's what it showed.

I really think some people have an aptitude for being parents while others don't.

Hip Hop is an idea. It is the pursuit of one's authentic being through the arts. It is not a physical thing; it is an attitude - even an aptitude.

The important thing is when you look at areas like physics and you realise that only one in five A-level students is a girl. We know it isn't about aptitude.

In aptitude tests, I scored highest in music.

What matters about people is their magnetic leadership, their aptitude for helping those following in their footsteps, and their passion - how they choose to package that is their prerogative.

I've known ambitious people with no aptitude for the thing they did. Most of whom, rather terrifyingly, tended to succeed.

The sea is selective, slow at recognition of effort and aptitude but fast in sinking the unfit.

It was just as well I found acting because I had no aptitude for anything else.

I went for officer training to be a fighter pilot, but never got past the aptitude test. So I decided to put on makeup and ponce about in front of a camera.

Tris: Wait. So you have no idea what my aptitude is? Tori: Yes and No. My conclusion is that you display equal aptitude for Abnegation, Dauntless and Erudite. People who get this kind of result are..are called...Divergent.

Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.

I played sports because I think it's mandatory in the greater Boston area regardless of your aptitude. It's like, well, what else would you be doing?

The thought of dancing scared me. A lot. Because I have absolutely no aptitude for it.

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.