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• 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

  Fields, Composition, Inclination

  H. P. Lovecraft (2001). “The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories”, p.357, Penguin

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• If there be an order in which the human race has mastered its various kinds of knowledge, there will arise in every child an aptitude to acquire these kinds of knowledge in the same order. So that even were the order intrinsically indifferent, it would facilitate education to lead the individual mind through the steps traversed by the general mind. But the order is not intrinsically indifferent; and hence the fundamental reason why education should be a repetition of civilization in little.

  Herbert Spencer

  Children, Knowledge, Science

  Herbert Spencer (1914). “Essays on education and kindred subjects Repr”

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

  Denis Waitley

  Attitude, Winner, Gifted

  Denis Waitley (1986). “The Winner's Edge: The Critical Attitude of Success”, Berkley

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• The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Happiness, Joy, Trying

  Malcolm Muggeridge (1966). “The Most of Malcolm Muggeridge”

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

  Geena Davis

  Archery, Natural, Knows

  "Team A-list: Celebs who could have been in the Olympics (no seriously, they could)" by Kate Wills, www.mirror.co.uk. July 25, 2012.

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

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Dancing, Scared

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• 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

  Academic Work, Mechanic, Catering

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Success, Men, Envy

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1850). “Truth and Poetry: from My Own Life; Or, The Autobiography of Goethe”, p.92

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• If a man made himself an expert in any particular branch of human activity, there would result the strong tendency that a peculiar aptitude towards the same branch would be found among some of his descendants.

  Sidney Lanier

  Strong, Men, Branches

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• 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.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Giving, Gentleman

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.5797, e-artnow

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• Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is verbal ability.

  Marissa Mayer

  Differences, Mathematical, Ability

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• There can be little question that good composition is far less dependent upon acquaintance with its laws, than upon practice and natural aptitude. A clear head, a quick imagination, and a sensitive ear, will go far towards making all rhetorical precepts needless.

  Herbert Spencer

  Clear Head, Law, Practice

  Herbert Spencer (1873). “Philosophy of Style: An Essay”, p.9

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• 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."

  African Spir

  Religious, Art, Philosophy

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 40), 1937.

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• In the discovery of lemmas the best aid is a mental aptitude for it. For we may see many who are quick at solutions and yet do not work by method ; thus Cratistus in our time was able to obtain the required result from first principles, and those the fewest possible, but it was his natural gift which helped him to the discovery.

  Proclus

  Hard Work, Science, Discovery

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• Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• When people are right with God, they are apt to be hard on themselves and easy on other people. But when they are not right with God, they are easy on themselves and hard on others.

  John Newton

  God, Attitude, Self

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• Empowerment is constantly challenging oneself with something difficult that tests his power of nerve, knack, skill, aptitude, attitude and wisdom to do things diligently, delightfully but differently.

  Anuj

  Attitude, Skills, Challenges

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• [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

  Life, Science, Careers

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• The first [quality] to be named must always be the power of attention, of giving one's whole mind to the patient without the interposition of anything of oneself. It sounds simple but only the very greatest doctors ever fully attain it. ... The second thing to be striven for is intuition. This sounds an impossibility, for who can control that small quiet monitor? But intuition is only interference from experience stored and not actively recalled. ... The last aptitude I shall mention that must be attained by the good physician is that of handling the sick man's mind.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Science, Simple, Greatness

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

  Felix Riesenberg

  Sea, Effort, Recognition

  "Living Again: An Autobiography".

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• If you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with their immense sadness at being abandoned.

  Joy Harjo

  Sadness, Poetry, Answers

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• Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• 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.

  Richard Rodney Bennett

  Encouragement, School, Games

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• 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

  Business, Mind, Ordinary

  A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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• The Good Lord in his infinite wisdom, did not create us all equal when it comes to size, strength, appearance, or various aptitudes. But success is not being better than someone else, success is the peace of mind that is a direct result of self-satisfacti on in knowing that you gave your best effort to become the best of which you are capable.

  John Wooden

  Self, Best Effort, Knowing

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