Quotes About Self-assessment

Always ask yourself the question "Is this going to help get me to my goal or not?

When asked if he was better than Morphy, Steinitz, and Capablanca, Fischer responded, Well, I don't like to put things like that in print, it sounds so egotistical. But to answer your question, Yes."- Ginzburg interview, Harper's Magazine 1962

I don't like to watch my work after I do it because it just - I'll always look at the wrong things.

I'm not particularly needy, and I'm not particularly anxious. I don't look for a director to tell me I'm doing a good job or that I'm great. I don't need to be stroked. It's more my own yardstick.

Game by game is how I judge myself. At the end of the season, yeah, I do look back and think about how many games I've been available for, how many goals I've scored, how I've contributed. But that's what the summer's for. For now, you just look to the next one.

I'd say I'm really, really good for a 16-year-old, which is where I peaked. I'm impressive, but not classically trained, not a concert pianist.

I do consider myself an actress now. I think 'Dig' and 'Transparent' have given me the confidence.

It is an uncontrolled truth, that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them.

I was smart, to tell you the truth. I'm not really bright, but I'm not stupid.

So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.

Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments." This is the famous study by David Dunning and Justin Kruger of Cornell University in New York mentioned a few chapters ago that launched the new science of what we might call Stupidology. It

Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments.

you are what your record says you are

You have to develop enough common sense to know what you can't do and focus on what you can. Know your limits. If you can't do it, don't, and say so

Nobody thinks more of James Comey than James Comey.

I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.

In other words, both macaques and rats volunteer for tests only when they feel confident, suggesting that they know their own knowledge.

Nothing has transformed my life more than realizing that it's a waste of time to evaluate my worthiness by weighing the reaction of the people in the stands.

I didn't have any doubts about my choice of career, but I had constant doubts about my ability, yes.

I believe that if you want to do a good job at something, then you're always analyzing the job that you've done to see if you can do it better.

I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.

I never expected to win a Grand Slam because, for me, I was not good enough to beat those guys.

We also make assumptions about ourselves, and this creates a lot of inner conflict. "I think I am able to do this." You make this assumption, for instance, then you discover you aren't able to do it. You overestimate or underestimate yourself because you haven't taken the time to ask yourself questions and to answer them.