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

  Lectura, Escritura, Cuatro

  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). "Obras completas Delphi de Ralph Waldo Emerson (Ilustradas)", 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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• El centro de las innovaciones empresariales ha sido el desarrollo de productos. Pero en tiempos de cambios rápidos e impredecibles, la creación de productos individuales es menos importante que la creación de una aptitud organizativa general para la innovación.

  John Seely Brown

  Innovación, Importante, Cultura

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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). "Memorias de África"

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• Nadie anhela lo que ya tiene y, sin embargo, la perspicacia acumulada de los sabios de la vida espiritual sugiere que la razón por la que tantos de nosotros no podemos ver la X roja que marca el lugar es porque estamos parados en él. El tesoro que buscamos no requiere una larga expedición, ni un equipo caro, ni una aptitud superior o una compañía especial. Lo único que nos falta es la voluntad de imaginar que ya tenemos todo lo que necesitamos. Lo único que falta es nuestro consentimiento para estar donde estamos.

  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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• El éxito depende de las glándulas sudoríparas.

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivación, Éxito, Felicidades

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• Tu actitud es más importante que tu aptitud.

  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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