The thought of dancing scared me. A lot. Because I have absolutely no aptitude for it.
An aptitude test established architecture as an alternative [career]. But what decided the matter for [Teddy Cruz] was the sight of a fourth-year architecture student sitting at his desk at a window, drawing and nursing a cup of coffee as rain fell outside. 'I don't know, I just liked the idea of having this relationship to the paper and the adventure of imagining the spaces. That was the first image that captured me.
Moreover it is becoming the Britons, whether scientific or unscientific, who boast at all fitting occasions of their aptitude to rule the waves, should know something of the population of their saline empire, especially of those parts of it immediately in contact with their terrestrial domain, and the coasts of the Continent to which our United Kingdom appertains.
The sea is selective, slow at recognition of effort and aptitude but fast in the sinking of the unfit.
Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude.
All my life I have dealt with objective matters; hence I lack both the natural aptitude and the experience to deal properly with people and to carry out official functions.
Attitude and not the Aptitude decide the Altitude you reach in life.
Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.
People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.
Each man has an aptitude born with him. Do your work.
Genius consists of equal parts of natural aptitude and hard work.
Everyone has some natural talent or aptitude in one or more areas. If you can identify those areas you not only will be happier and perform more successfully in that role, but you will also become better paid for that. Our free-market system pays for performance at some point. When you have a natural talent or aptitude, coupled with desire and experience, the result is productivity plus.
In giving advice, aptitude is often less to be considered, than seasonableness.
Most do violence to their natural aptitude, and thus attain superiority in nothing.
Your attitude is more important that your aptitude.
Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.
Inherited aptitudes and traits of temperament count for quite as much as length of habituation in deciding what range of habits will come to dominate any individual's scheme of life.
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.
For most of the early hires you make in a startup, experience doesn't matter very much, and you should go for aptitude.
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.
