Top 1200 Aptitude Test Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

It was a great test of my ability to work with... watercolors. And it was also a test of my patience; I needed to put myself in a completely disciplined position... I couldn't make mistakes.

It [preparing for a role] is just like studying for a test and making the test easy; it makes it a lot of fun, especially when people enjoy it.

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

You sit men and women down and give them a maths test, and they will do fairly equally. Then you set up the same test, but with different people, and make them tick a box to say whether they are a man or a woman, and the women do significantly worse in the maths test than they did previously in a group set.

By the time I got into test work, it was dying out. It wasn't really flight test at all; it was mostly testing new gadgets.

Test scores aren't perfect, but having a test score for math or reading or other things that we can objectively measure is a meaningful component that makes a lot of sense.

This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises, promotions, and other signs of appreciation.

Confidence applied properly is the path of genius. You must always be in a state of confidence. And the way you sustain a state of confidence is by testing yourself. Difficult quagmires that may occur; there's always a test. You have to seek them out. You constantly have to test yourself to prepare for these quagmires. That's why I always put myself to the test.

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

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

It may be difficult to understand why a test comes our way, but we must never forget that the test is accomplishing refining and purification.

If I can get people to accept that a DNA test is nothing to be intimidated about, then we can do tests that determine how well you metabolise certain drugs and test for breast cancer.

If we are given gold, would we not test it to determine it's value? If we doubted its genuineness - we would test it by fire...and so God with us.

Test pilots have a litmus test for evaluating problems. When something goes wrong, they ask, "Is this thing still flying?" If the answer is yes, then there's no immediate danger, no need to overreact.

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

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

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

How to test?" is a question that cannot be answered in general. "When to test?" however, does have a general answer: as early and as often as possible.

I played my first ever Test in Kingston in 1990. I'd just graduated from Durham University and there I was, at Sabina Park, playing Test cricket.

Quitting smoking can be a very good test of ones character. Pass the test and you will have accomplished so much more than just get rid of one bad habit

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

I think test-driven design is great. But you can test all you want and if you don’t know how to approach the problem, you’re not going to get a solution.

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

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

The biggest relief off my shoulders was when I retired from Test cricket and I knew I didn't have to bowl 40 overs in a Test anymore.

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

Fatal illness has always been viewed as a test of moral character, but in the nineteenth century there is a great reluctance to let anybody flunk the test.

There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.

I liked friendly games, but I took them like a test to test new players. People didn't like that very much.

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

If you can't test it, don't build it. If you don't test it, rip it out.

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.

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

We all know that each generation has its own test, the contemporaneous and current standard by which alone it can adequately judge of its own moral achievements, and that it may not legitimately use a previous and less vigorous test. The advanced test must indeed include that which has already been attained; but if it includes no more, we shall fail to go forward, thinking complacently that we have "arrived" when in reality we have not yet started.

The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.

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

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

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.

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

All over the world when you test men and women for facial cue recognition, women test... better. It's a negotiation tool.

Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Can't you see for yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you - unless you actually fail the test?

Do you know there is actually a blood test out there now to find out if your kid is gay or not? Yeah, it's an HIV test.

What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer for is the test of love.

The only way to pass a test is to take the test

What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer is the test of love.

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

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

All over the world when you test men and women for facial cue recognition, women test... better. Its a negotiation tool.

Mankind's real moral test, a test so radical and so deep that it escapes our gaze, is probably the one of its relations with those that are the most at its mercy; the Animals.

I have no real desire to play Test cricket, and the reason I lost this desire was because I was not selected consistently for Test matches.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win - you pass the test.

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

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

To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of general mental capacity.

Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.

It is the ultimate test. It's every cricketer's dream to play Test cricket. I'm eagerly waiting for my opportunity to represent my country in whites also.

In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.

So you've got to test the envelope, find out what are your abilities and if you falter, pick yourself up and test it again. Otherwise, what is it all about, you know?

Those of us who were part of creating the Scottish parliament believe we must always test constitutional arrangements. The real test is where do the powers lie? Is it in the best interests of Scotland?