Definition of Aptitude

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Aptitude

A natural or acquired disposition or capacity for a particular purpose, or tendency to a particular action or effect; as, oil has an aptitude to burn.

A general fitness or suitableness; adaptation.

Readiness in learning; docility; aptness.

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Aptitude Quotations

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.
Zig Ziglar

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
Marcus Aurelius

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.
Denis Waitley

Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
Anton Chekhov

Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.
Jesse Jackson

In aptitude tests, I scored highest in music.
Conrad Hall

Now in my theater training I showed no aptitude at all.
Jeremy Irons

Archery is something that I took up later and didn't know I had a natural aptitude for.
Geena Davis

Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.
Arthur E. Waite

I was a catastrophe at Science and Games, but the good thing about Quaker schools is that they encourage you in those subjects for which you show an aptitude.
Richard Rodney Bennett

Aptitude Translations

aptitude in Dutch is talent, begaafdheid, gave, aanleg
aptitude in Italian is abilitazione, estro
aptitude in Norwegian is sikkerhet
aptitude in Spanish is habilitacion

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