Quotes About Self-assessment

I make my own judgements of people, mate. I don't need to borrow yours.

My wife is very fit and looking younger every day, whereas I'm looking older day by day.

The big question about how people behave is whether they've got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.

You get down on yourself. You get disappointed in yourself. I expect more out of myself. As far as losing confidence as far as what I can do, that won't ever happen.

If you come away with a 1-1 result, that's obviously a disappointing feeling. You start to look at what you could have done better.

I have done enough, and I am not dissatisfied with the body of work that I have done.

People say I'm good at standup. I don't even think I'm that great at standup. I just hit hard. I don't think I'm super technical or anything like that. I got a couple knockouts. I think I just hit hard more than anything.

Far as I can tell, I still have most of my hair, my gut is not hanging over my belt, and I still have all of my teeth.

I just would like to keep singing. As soon as I'm not singing well, I hope that I know it, so that I can get off the stage and leave what I have done. I hope I'll know, and if I don't, I hope somebody tells me.

Obviously, not playing a game before playoffs is something that happened, but especially going into the playoffs, you try to feel yourself out, where you're at, and then get right into game tempo and jump right in and play where you were before the injury.

By his own assessment, he was no genius. He had no great quickness of apprehension or wit or power to follow a long and purely abstract train of thought. On the many occasions when I share those feelings, I find it encouraging to review those words because that Englishman did okay for himself—his name was Charles Darwin.

Every night, contemplate: What good did I do today? How can I do better tomorrow?

Most coaches study the films when they lose. I study them when we win -to see if I can figure out what I did right

We had better rate our important parts-our thoughts, feelings, and actions-to see how they helped or hindered us. But-damn it!-we didn't have to rate our self, our being, our essence. Our self or personhood was too complex to be given a global rating. We could say, for practical reasons, it was good-meaning it helped us to live and enjoy. Or we could say that it just didn't have to be rated at all. Use our self but not rate it!

mouth. Her mascara and eye shadow still looked okay at least. No need to add more, she decided. And thankfully, the mineral powder she'd used to seal her foundation seemed

On one of those rare occasions when Bach appraised his own life's work, he remarked: I worked hard.

How much can a dragon carry? As much as it thinks it can

I'm no actor, and I've got 64 pictures to prove it.

I might have faults but I'm not a big head.

I hate watching my own work... I find a lot of faults.

It's funny: what one tends to think of as the best work you've done is not what other people think is the best you've done.

A very disturbing feature of overconfidence is that it often appears to be poorly associated with knowledge - that is, the more ignorant the individual, the more confident he or she might be.

It has seemed to me that each year one should pause to take stock of himself, to ask: Where am I going? What am I becoming? What do I wish to do and become? Most people whom I encountered were without purpose, people who had given themselves no goal. The first goal need not be the final one, for a sailing ship sails first by one wind, then another. The point is that it is always going somewhere, proceeding toward a final destination.

Many complain of their looks, few of their brains.