Nervous states of the worst sort control me without pause. Everything that is not literature bores me and I hate it. I… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“The rhythms of the game complemented the lifestyle he preferred.” — Nicholas Dawidoff Copy Share Image
Empowerment is constantly challenging oneself with something difficult that tests his power of nerve, knack, skill, aptitude, attitude and wisdom to do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had the vocation for politics. What I didn't have was any aptitude for political combat. I took the attacks personally, which… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Good librarians are natural intelligence operatives. They possess all of the skills and characteristics required for that work: curiosity, wide-ranging knowledge, good… — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
People who don't have the interest or aptitude for serious college studies at age 18 may find that later in life they… — George Leef Copy Share Image
I believe my most important skill is an ability to perceive patterns in the market. I think this aptitude for pattern recognition… — Linda Bradford Raschke Copy Share Image
“Was the whole matter of aptitudes a myth – a copout used by people like me to avoid subjects that would force… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Inherited aptitudes and traits of temperament count for quite as much as length of habituation in deciding what range of habits will… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
I can’t answer either question. But the look she gives me reminds me of the look in the attack dog’s eyes in… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I like to help kids, work with kids in detention homes. Don't tell a kid what's right and wrong. He knows what's… — Evel Knievel Copy Share Image
Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The name of the game is continuing to learn. Even if you're very well trained and have some natural aptitude, you still… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
If you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with… — Joy Harjo Copy Share Image
Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A power of Butterfly must be - The Aptitude to fly Meadows of Majesty concedes And easy Sweeps of Sky - — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Welcome your problems with open arms! Like any other game, the game of life is played as per your aptitude; the more… — Zeina Copy Share Image
Courage is a moral quality; it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold… — Charles Wilson, 1st Baron Moran Copy Share Image
The sort of strenuous reading and writing program I advocate - four to six hours a day, every day - will not… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
The locus of corporate innovations has been product development. But in times of rapid and unpredictable change, the creation of individual products… — John Seely Brown Copy Share Image
