Aptitude Quote by Nicholas Dawidoff Download Open image ““The rhythms of the game complemented the lifestyle he preferred.”” — Nicholas Dawidoff ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aptitude Calling Job Vocation
“Games were being played, that was all, and games of which he was largely ignorant and wished to remain so.” — Barbara Vine Copy Share Image
“At times he heard within him a soft, gentle voice, which reminded him quietly, complained quietly, so that he could hardly hear it. Then he suddenly saw clearly that he was leading a strange life, that he was doing many things that were only a game, that he was quite cheerful and sometimes experienced pleasure, but that real life was… — Hesse, Hermann Copy Share
“I was also supposed to quiz my various companions on a number of important matters such as nostalgia, fear of unknown animals, food fantasies,… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything.” — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“In his life he'd passed through long periods of gratefulness and good cheer, but he'd scarcely even imagined this level of thorough contentment with… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“The game was in his eyes a contest, a struggle with a difficulty, yet a motionless, unwearying struggle, congenial to his tastes.” — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
“The game had to be played the same way every day or the pieces would fall to the floor, the board would collapse, and… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
“...in his heart of hearts he could almost wish that, when he was grown up, his life should consist of nothing but nonsense: just… — Agnar Mykle Copy Share Image
“What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life by him who interests himself in everything.” — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“The idea of a slow approach to the luxury of leisure drove him wild. He was, of course, progressing toward it, but, like a… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“When you work all the time, the other aspects of your identity recede until they seem to have disappeared.” — Nicholas Dawidoff Copy Share Image
“Ryan was not only gregarious but also a happily married inamorato! (Around the facility, when the other coaches teased him about this episode, Ryan… — Nicholas Dawidoff Copy Share Image
“But how a game plan came to be, what a finished plan looked like, I had no idea. I’d heard that all copies were… — Nicholas Dawidoff Copy Share Image
“What I missed was what I missed every year when the season ended and abruptly the radio was quiet. I missed them.” — Nicholas Dawidoff Copy Share Image
“It was the gravity of the place. In football the facility was designed to be difficult to leave. Everything was there for you. A… — Nicholas Dawidoff Copy Share Image
People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The first [quality] to be named must always be the power of attention, of giving one's whole mind to the patient without the interposition… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
It is not your aptitude, but your attitude, that determines your altitude. — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
“That evening, Hope wrote a letter to her MP, Jack Crow. She found no difficulty at all in composing it, but quite a bit… — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life… — A. E. Waite Copy Share Image
If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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… — Francis Parker Yockey Copy Share Image
Henke sensed her terrifying aptitude for destruction as never before. Henke had feared for her sanity; now she knew the truth was almost worse… — David Weber Copy Share Image
That's what humanity is: a series of successes and failures, a testing of one's own nature and aptitude. Neither the body nor the soul… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image