Quotes About Self-assessment

As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.

I was a wicket-keeper who opened the batting. Could I have made it? Hard to say. I probably wouldn't quite have been good enough. I might get back into it once I've finished with the football.

Siri, am I doing the right thing?

The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.?

Peter Bregman, a productivity guru and blogger for the Harvard Business Review, recommends a simple trick for dodging this fate. He advises us to set a timer that goes off once every hour, and when it beeps, we should ask ourselves, "Am I doing what I most need to be doing right now?

Confidence spark When interviewing for an ambitious assignment, make a list of the skills you have, the skills you need to learn, and the tasks that can be delegated. Now address your fear of not being able to handle the situation, and see the truth as it is. You have several skills, and you can learn or delegate the rest. Breaking down the job into its various parts may also help. What daily tasks can you do right now? Which ones will you assign to someone else?

I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it?

Sometimes it's hard to convince yourself that you're not an idiot.

This praise of his strategic abilities was especially pleasing to [Tsar] Nicholas, because, though he was proud of his strategic abilities, at the bottom of his heart he was aware that he had none. And now he wanted to to hear more detailed praise of himself.

Well, for me, I don't need validation from no one to tell me what type of player I am or number to tell me throughout the year what type of player I am. It's all about your ability to go out there and just compete.

You can never really judge your work because once it's done, it's done.

I do not know how much my own work has achieved, and I must not pretend it has done more than it has.

Never ask people about your work.

I am not that fast and skilful. I am not Raheem Sterling, am I? So I know I have to use my strength and power in the box.

One can always improve, but I know my strengths and I know that I am complete.

I certainly am the first to acknowledge where I don't have strengths, but I think I'm pretty good at acknowledging where I do.

You get to the big leagues, and you think, 'Can I do this stuff?' Then you take the first pitch down the middle for Strike 1, and you think, 'I could have hit that.'

In time, she learned to develop her own opinion of the people that she worked for, and she got stronger. Think she's now much stronger. In the beginning she wanted to believe she was strong but sometimes she faltered.

We're generally overconfident in our opinions and our impressions and judgments.

I never entered a fight overconfident.

I think I'm overrated as a recruiter.

Competence is how good you are at something. Confidence is how good you think you are at something.

Instead of asking candidates to self-assess a given behavior or characteristic related to humility, hunger, or people smarts, ask them what others would say about them. For example, instead of asking someone if he considers himself to be a hard worker, ask him "How would your colleagues describe your work ethic?

Knowing when you're not good at something and knowing when you are good at something is an art-form.