Aptitude Quotes - Page 3

• 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.‎

  Herbert Spencer

  Animal, Dna, Special

  Herbert Spencer (1864). “The Principles of Biology”, p.181

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• 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

  Men, Poverty, Poor

  Geraldine Brooks (2006). “March”, p.74, Penguin

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

  Agatha Christie

  Writing, Shy, Social

  Agatha Christie (1988). “Mrs. McGinty's Dead”, Bantam Books

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• The sort of strenuous reading and writing program I advocate - four to six hours a day, every day - will not seem strenuous if you really enjoy doing these things and have an aptitude for them.

  Stephen King

  Reading, Writing, Four

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Charlie Munger

  Continuing To Learn, Games, Names

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• Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?

  Agatha Christie

  Passion, Dark, Desire

  Agatha Christie (1984). “Lord Edgware Dies”, Berkley

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Work, Men, Born

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2514, Delphi Classics

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• Invention is activity of mind, as fire is air in motion; a sharpening of the spiritual sight, to discern hidden aptitudes.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Spiritual, Fire, Sight

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1839). “Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments”, p.216

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• If I was left to my own devices, you would see about ten T-shirts in rotation with maybe a few nice pairs of jeans - but I also like to look good. I like feeling really well put together, I just don't have the aptitude and the knowledge to do that.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Nice, Jeans, Feelings

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• Henke sensed her terrifying aptitude for destruction as never before. Henke had feared for her sanity; now she knew the truth was almost worse than that. Honor wasn't insane - she simply didn't care. She'd lost not only her sense of balance but any desire to regain it.

  David Weber

  Honor, Balance, Insane

  "Field of Dishonor". Book by David Weber, 1994.

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• I think his development has been lightning quick because of his God-given talent. He has great aptitude and he's been able to develop very fast in front of our eyes at every level.

  Brian Sabean

  God, Eye, Thinking

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• He lacks much who has no aptitude for idleness.

  Louise Wilder

  Work, Simplicity, Idleness

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

  Emily Dickinson

  Butterfly, Sky, Majesty

  Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.494, Harvard University Press

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• 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

  Innovation, Important, Culture

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• No domestic animal can be as still as a wild animal. The civilized people have lost the aptitude of stillness, and must take lessons in silence from the wild before they are accepted by it.

  Isak Dinesen

  Animal, People, Silence

  Isak Dinesen (1938). “Out of Africa”

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• No one longs for what he or she already has, and yet the accumulated insight of those wise about the spiritual life suggests that the reason so many of us cannot see the red X that marks the spot is because we are standing on it. The treasure we seek requires no lengthy expedition, no expensive equipment, no superior aptitude or special company. All we lack is the willingness to imagine that we already have everything we need. The only thing missing is our consent to be where we are.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Wise, Spiritual, Missing

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• 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

  Study, Interest, Educated

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Essays Ancient and Modern”, p.188, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, Running, Discipline

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• I came to accept during my freshman year that many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural background, not lack of aptitude or application as I'd feared.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Years, Class, Understanding

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.135, Vintage

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• 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

  Skills, Use, Born

  Source: autoweek.com

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• Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivational, Success, Congratulations

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• Your attitude is more important that your aptitude.

  Zig Ziglar

  Attitude, Important

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

  Norm MacDonald

  Giving, Advice, Giving Advice

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• Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Education, Accomplishment, Purpose

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• Appalling numbers of youth have been led into a cynical ultra-sophisticated attitude which regards drinking as a badge of social aptitude, which makes a fetish of sport and professes eroticism as a way of life. A perverted and insane pictorial art, lewd exhibitionistic dancing and jungle music form the spiritual norm of this sector of America's youth.

  Francis Parker Yockey

  Sports, Spiritual, Art

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