Quotes about Aptitude

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

To use a man for what he is naturally best fitted is to keep him, if one can, from apostasy and dissatisfaction. At the same time, life's temptations come most often from that for which one has the greatest aptitude.

In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.

Ability is a poor man's wealth.

It is all very well to say that a man is clever, but the reader wants to see examples of it...

Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't.

We must all be cut out for what we do, he thought. However you make your living is where your talent lies.

What are the two or three things that you and only you are responsible for? What, specifically, have you been hired to do? What is "success" for the person in your position? Now let's slice it even thinner. Of the two or three things that define success for you, which of those are in line with your giftedness? Of the tasks you have been assigned to do, which of them are you specifically gifted to do?

Ability is a poor man's wealth.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.