Quotes About Competence

Chris, you and I are so smart that we can leave the victory party two hours early and do the transition ourselves.

those with the least training (graduate students) were just as accurate as the fully trained ones (paid pros)

To put it bluntly, American political opportunities are heavily loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.

I think I'm good enough to play and sing.

Yes, I am a good singer.

You have to be a professional in every single thing you do.

When I go to the interviews and sit before a prospective employer, I'm going to try and look as employable as I can.

People have to be confident about their sites. We're confident, number one, because under my administration we're managing our airports better than we've ever done before.

The program should know if someone is at the keyboard or joystick or if it is just sitting there idle. It should know if someone is proficient in its use or a novice.

I feel I handle the pressure situations well, and that's why I want to be there at the end.

Amateurs in professional situations make me very impatient.

I just feel like I've been in a lot of high-pressure situations, and I think I'm able to stay poised in those situations.

I know my game really well and I'm relatively comfortable in most situations.

I've been in a lot of pressure situations; I know what I can do.

Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow.

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

I have learnt sketching, drawing, singing, dancing, rifle shooting, paragliding.

It isn't something I expected to be good at, but I am an amazing skier.

The only sport I was good at was skiing.

Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised.

Having a skill makes you undeniable.

You have to truly believe in your skill and trust that you can do something.

When you're younger, you see the people who are in power and think they must have that position because of some degree of skill. And as you get older, you realize it's not true, that most people in those positions are absolutely inept. And this naturally makes you feel better about yourself.

Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest.