Quotes About Self-assessment

Success is a matter of one's own feeling about oneself.

It is like a disease to think that an invincible status has been achieved after being satisfied with the past successful operations.

I'm a confident person in knowing my abilities, but also know, I'm kind of a realist, I know when I suck.

Basically, it's hard for me to assess myself, a hardship not only prompted by the immodesty of the enterprise, but because one is not capable of assessing himself, let alone his work. However, if I were to summarize, my main interest is the nature of time. That's what interests me most of all. What time can do to a man.

I don't know if it is my confidence or my techniques. I think it is a little of both.

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I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

If you want to take your own measure, put aside your money, your estates, your honors, and look inside yourself. At present you are taking the word of others for what you are. Seneca, Epistles 80.10

Los estudios sobre cognición humana atribuyen este exceso de optimismo a numerosos motivos. Uno de los más poderosos es la tendencia de los individuos a exagerar el propio talento, a creer que están por encima de la media en su asignación de características y habilidades positivas.

The most important opinion, of both my work and my conduct in life, is my own.

She had seen early in life that there was none in this world to audit one's soul. A man could deform himself into the most miserable of creatures, and no holy hand would descend from the clouds and cry Halt. And if there was no auditor, then one must audit one's own soul, tenaciously and without mercy.

I witnessed doom, though. It was around me. But at the time, I thought the bad luck of other people reaffirmed that I was doing okay.

educators best serve students by helping them be more self-reflective. The only way any of us can improve—as Coach Graham taught me—is if we develop a real ability to assess ourselves. If we can't accurately do that, how can we tell if we're getting better or worse?

I see myself as an average to above-average catcher in the big leagues.

You always look for certain things you can do better and what went wrong.

When I was a player, I wanted to win the Ballon d'Or, but I knew my characteristics; I knew that it was impossible.

When I was at Chelsea I thought I played well even when Ashley Cole was there.

I think, without a doubt, I'd outshine The Rock because he can't do quite what I do, but he is good at the guitar, and he's got some chops to him, so I don't think you need to think about it too much.

I think when I started playing against some of the best guys on the AAU circuit, I started to look at myself and say, 'I am one of these guys.'

Superstar - I mean, when I think of superstar, I think of LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Stephen Curry, names like that. I don't know if I can put myself in that category.

At Lyon, there's 20 other superstars there - I'm not the best player there. I'm not the best player at England.

Suppose you like someone very much. Then, by a familiar halo effect, you will also be prone to believe many good things about that person - you will be biased in their favor. Most of us like ourselves very much, and that suffices to explain self-assessments that are biased in a particular direction.

I have this firm belief that when I step on the field that I believe I'm the best player on the field, but I also believe that I'm not good enough yet. Because of that, I need to make sure that I'm striving to improve every aspect of my game.

When you look in the mirror at the end of the day, make sure you feel good about what you see.