Quotes About Competence

Yes, we have to look at our opponents and study our opponents. But you have to look at you first and know you can do it.

You have to have some form of talent. Getting to a skill-set when you can do something is achievable. Getting to a skill-set when you can do it an elite level is a different thing.

I don't know why, but at the end of games, for some reason, I just get more confident. I just think it's natural. I think it's something I've embraced from a young age.

For directors and producers, you're not going to get competent performers on your set if they didn't start at a young age and understand professionalism.

If you're choosing somebody that doesn't have the competence, but because it's a young guy, or it's a lady or if it's a man, it's a positive discrimination and I won't push that.

You can get a young guy and he comes in and he's athletic, he can hit and he can run, but if they don't know what they're doing, they're a step behind.

And honestly, I'm not being cocky, I'm not talking trash, but anybody who beat me would have to get lucky. Nobody is just going to out-technique me.

I never feel more alone than when I'm traveling. Alone and, to some extent, helpless. The world expects a certain level of competence and can be merciless when this expectation is unmet.

Because I teach and write about depression and bipolar illness, I am often asked what is the most important factor in treating bipolar disorder. My answer is competence. Empathy is important, but competence is essential.

I am a mature, professional cricketer who fully fathoms the trends and experiences the game has to offer.

Do according to your capability.

Act according to your capacity.

If you want something done right, do it yourself.

I don't care if I was a ditch-digger at a dollar a day, I'd want to do my job better than the fellow next to me. I'd want to be the best at whatever I do.

Trust is equal parts character and competence... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other.

Fewer than one in twenty security professionals has the core competence and the foundation knowledge to take a system all the way from a completely unknown state of security through mapping, vulnerability testing, password cracking, modem testing, vulnerability patching, firewall tuning, instrumentation, virus detection at multiple entry points, and even through back-ups and configuration management.

Whatever you lay your hands on, self-esteem is visible.

In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.

Peter Principle--a brilliant and talented man promoted just one notch over his head.

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong, without comment. -T. H. White

Business doesn't cut you any slack because of your gender. You're either good at what you do or you're not.

As a manager, if I saw a female on the line for my match, that would not worry me in the slightest. To get to that level, it means they are deemed to be good enough.

My slogan is I'm the least qualified guy for the job, but I'd probably do the best job.

I can't stand stupid, and I can't stand slow.