Quotes About Self-assessment

Most people are overconfident about their own abilities. That is probably a good thing. But we would be horrified if a physician's aide engaged in heart surgery.

MBA students are not the only ones overconfident about their abilities. The "above average" effect is pervasive. Ninety percent of all drivers think they are above average behind the wheel

Men measure not only other men, but all other things, by themselves.

To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities

The ultimate high: A man's abilities equaling his opinion of'em.

Every man should measure himself by his own standard. [Lat., Metiri se quemque suo modulo ac pede verum est.]

If I have learned one thing in life, it is never to take any man's own estimate of himself. He could very well be mistaken.

Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?

Look to yourself for the answer - stop calling your girlfriends and stop calling your mom - you know if it's working or not, you either feel like a goddess or you don't

On my best day, I am a seven-point-seven. I could be a hard eight if I felt great. If I went on a good run and had on my best pair of jeans, I could feel right on the money.

If you want to know whether you have written anything worth preserving, sing it to yourself without any accompaniment.

Let us compete with ourselves, not with others.

People who are cocky and arrogant say, 'I know that' and move along. People who are confident and positive ask themselves,' How good am I at that?' and seek to improve

I don't like to read about myself, whether it be positive or negative.

You will never know how much progress you've made in life until you go back and start from the very beginning".

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

An honest assessment of our own capabilities, without conceit and without false modesty, is one of the first essentials of a useful life.

In certain ways I am deeply stupid. I don't say this out of modesty. I believe that I'm more intelligent than the average human being, though perhaps intelligence should not be looked at as a single gauge, like a speedometer, but as a full array of tachometers, odometers, altimeters, and the rest.

Now, I don't consider myself the smartest chip in the cookie, but I ain't the dumbest, either.

I feel that I am a good actor.

I'm not a great player, but I'm a damn good one.

I turned down as many roles that I thought were beyond my abilities as I did ones I thought weren't good enough.

That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I'm not a good mandolin player at all.

I think generally I'm a pretty good person if I had to grade myself. Or toot my own horn.