Zig Ziglar
Author, Motivational Speaker
"Your attitude is more important that your aptitude."
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Aptitude
35 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Geena Davis
Actress
"Archery is something that I took up later and didn't know I had a natural aptitude for."
Emmitt Smith
American Football Player
"Your attitude determines your aptitude!"
Anton Chekhov
Playwright, Short Story Writer
"Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it."
T. S. Eliot
Poet, Playwright
"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."
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"The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success."
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"In aptitude tests, I scored highest in music."
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"Most do violence to their natural aptitude, and thus attain superiority in nothing."
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"The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude."
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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."
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"I would expunge the word "aptitude" from our vocabulary, because if you're interested in something, that's all that matters. You'll spend more time doing it, that than anything else, and possibly more time doing it than anybody else. And that's all that matters, because in the end, if you love what you do, you'll be your best at it compared to anything else you might have chosen as a career."
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"People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not."
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"We may like well to know what is Plato’s and what is Montesquieu’s or Goethe’s part, and what thought was always dear to the writer himself; but the worth of the sentences consists in their radiancy and equal aptitude to all intelligence. They fit all our facts like a charm. We respect ourselves the more that we know them."
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"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."
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"Each man has an aptitude born with him. Do your work."
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"I felt that God could be realized only through service. And service for me was the service of India, because it came to me without my seeking, because I had an aptitude for it."
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"Attitude and not the Aptitude decide the Altitude you reach in life."
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"He lacks much who has no aptitude for idleness."
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