Quotes about apt
aptitude came family followed golf harsh homework kids mistake parents quite raising rules seemed
To me, the family was raising a child, not a golfer. The golf was just something he had an aptitude for. There was no mistake that the parents made the rules and kids followed the rules, but it wasn't a harsh environment. It seemed quite normal. Homework came first, golf came second, end of story.
apt experience man
In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts. Harold MacMillan
aptitude freak musical quite ten theory
For ten years, I went to piano lessons. I don't think I'm a very musical person, and the theory quite defeated me, but I had a freak aptitude for Debussy and Ravel.
apt chance defense disputes disturb entered experience leave ought sour support temper truth
I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one's temper and disturb one's quiet. Benjamin Franklin
apt drunken stranger total unlike women
Unlike men, who are apt to stab a total stranger in a drunken brawl or run amuck with a high-powered rifle, we women usually kill our intimates: We kill our children, our husbands, our lovers.
apt curiously feeble grain mixed
We must not inquire too curiously into motives... They are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light. George Eliot
apt concerns great pity smaller themselves
'Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth. Mary Astell
aptitude candidates captain few job leadership next number qualities squad
We have a number of candidates for captain and we will be assessing leadership qualities and their aptitude for the job during the squad sessions over the next few weeks. Frank Hadden
apt education ignorant people sons suffered value wealth
Ignorant people are apt to overrate the value of what is called education. The sons of the poor, having suffered the privations of poverty, think of wealth as the mother of joy. Robert Green Ingersoll
apt compared elude woo
Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquettethe more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace. John Tyler
apt aspect assumes effects events fancy far history human imagination incidents lived produce seen travelled
On the human imagination events produce the effects of time. Thus, he who has travelled far and seen much is apt to fancy that he has lived long; and the history that most abounds in important incidents soonest assumes the aspect of antiquity. James F. Cooper
aptitude-test aptitude tests
In aptitude tests, I scored highest in music. Conrad Hall
apt bad wit women
Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants. Elizabeth Montagu
apt authority carry constant experience far french-philosopher invested man power shows
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
apt blessed brought chance created easy fun glad grateful la level lucky next opportunity players process radical score wonderful work
The process was so graceful; I was lucky to have such a wonderful team. I created the score in the most easy and fun collaboration I think I've ever had. We were blessed to have the A-list of LA players with us. They brought the score to the next level for sure...as they are so apt to do. I'm grateful for the opportunity to create this score, and so glad I had the chance to work with everyone at Radical and at Vivendi-Universal Games.
apt blessed brought chance created easy fun glad grateful la level lucky next opportunity players process radical score wonderful work
The process was so graceful; I was lucky to have such a wonderful team. I created the score in the most easy and fun collaboration I think I've ever had. We were blessed to have the A-list of LA players with us. They brought the score to the next level for sure...as they are so apt to do. I'm grateful for the opportunity to create this score, and so glad I had the chance to work with everyone at Radical and at Vivendi-Universal Games.
aptitude facts spirit
Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it. Anton Chekhov
apt competing home kids loud mostly nine number pit society ten
I've come to see the mosh pit as an apt description of American society - and of my childhood home. I was number nine of ten creative, mostly loud kids competing for airspace. Laurie Helgoe
apt bunch easier home lay singles
When you try to do something bigger and more grandiose, a lot of times it's more apt to fall apart. It's a lot easier to lay down a bunch of singles than it is to get a home run. Jim Lee
aptitude-test tests doe
In the words of a very famous dead person, 'A nation that does not know its history is doomed to do poorly on the Scholastic Aptitude Test. Dave Barry
apt begins corrupt laws minds possess power tyranny unlimited
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it; and this I know, my lords, that where laws end, tyranny begins
apt expansion federal hikes inflation less likely rate reserve series tail thereby today year
The Federal Reserve engages in a series of rate hikes at the tail end of an expansion when inflation is accelerating. What the Federal Reserve has done today is they made that less likely and thereby this expansion is more apt to go on as long as the year 2000.
apt issue sensitive since unusually
The sentimental view of anything is apt to be ridiculous, but I feel that I have been unusually sensitive to the issue of place since I was a little boy. James Howard Kunstler
apt autumn life morning solemn summer tale taught within
There's not a nook within this solemn pass/ But were an apt confessional for one/ Taught by his summer spent, his autumn gone,/ That life is but a tale of morning grass/ Withered at eve. William Wordsworth
apt green hard involved pain pay spend worked
There's no pain involved when you pay with plastic. But there is some pain when you go out and you have to part with cash. You worked hard for that green stuff, and you aren't as apt to spend it.
aptitude attacks business great political politics took vocation
I had the vocation for politics. What I didn't have was any aptitude for political combat. I took the attacks personally, which is a great mistake. It's never personal: It's just business. It was ever thus. Michael Ignatieff
aptitude attraction possibly
I must have been born with a strong attraction toward, and possibly even an aptitude for, doing things on a small scale.
apt document hard
I am the world's worst reporter. I am apt to try too hard to help rather than just document my subjects. David Rakoff
apt commit patience ready reap rewards stable strong
An organization that is strong and stable and is ready to commit time, money, and patience will be more apt to reap rewards than the quick-hitting opportunist.
apt candidates changed companies consider days employers example industry looking people regardless strong
Employers are more apt these days to consider candidates from other industries. Pharmaceutical companies are hiring, for example, and they have changed their outlook. They used to want only people with pharmaceutical experience, but now they're looking at people with strong brand-building experience, regardless of what industry they come from.
apt great heap laid papers run signed suffer till
. . . was apt to suffer things to run on till there was a great heap of papers laid before him, so then he signed them a little too precipitately. Gilbert Burnet
apt asia bid discussed following game given massive matter south
We have discussed this matter jointly and we feel that given the massive following for the game in South Asia it is apt we bid jointly for the World Cup. Sharad Pawar
apt aspiration conduct instead lives measure ourselves proof sincerity truth
We are very apt to measure ourselves by our aspiration instead of our performance. But in truth the conduct of our lives is the only proof of the sincerity of our hearts.