Quotes About Competence

I have not yet witnessed a spontaneous recovery from incompetence.

If he's going to help you, he has to know what you're capable of. Don't underrate yourself,

The new dispensation—near-perfect retrievability—reorients us, not so subtly altering our expectations and our way of encountering our reality. It feeds the great illusion of our competence, our mastery, even as it pampers us and gives us a sense of being catered to (the psychological implication being that we're worthy). These new assumptions

Achievements are not earned through proficiency alone. They are in fact rewards of our efficiency. Proficiency is gathered knowledge, while efficiency is the ability to translate the knowledge into action.

Confidence is the key. When you're playing something new, find the part you know very well and play it really strong. That'll make you believe that you really do know it.

Sometimes, the hardest things are just the simple things. Basically, get out of your own head and just go play the game you know how to play.

Bill Clinton and Barack Obama represented somewhat different party factions, but they both embodied wonkery, a vision of competence and expertise governing to some extent above ideology, in which there are assumed to be 'correct answers' to policy dilemmas that a disinterested observer could acknowledge and the right technocrat achieve.

If I'm the champion, the whole UFC division should be ashamed of themselves for a guy that had no damn skills being the champion. They should all just go relocate somewhere.

I know I can cut it with any songwriters in the world.

Growth is essential to attracting the best and most sophisticated talent.

Donald Trump proved you need a businessman to run things, not just someone who is a career politician. I'm sorry, but to me what do they know?

There's one major difference between James Bond and me. He is able to sort out problems!

I can cook a good soup from scratch, this is true, and I do know how to drive a stick shift.

I can't start off with the premise that a coach is better than me just because he's from Europe or South America.

A shot that goes in the cup is pure luck, but a shot to within two feet of the flag is skill.

Don't confuse luck with skill when judging others, and especially when judging yourself.

Luck lies in bed, and wishes the postman would bring him news of a legacy; labor turns out at six, and with busy pen or ringing hammer lays the foundation of a competence.

In the long run luck is given only to the efficient.

It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.

No profession, trade, or calling, is overcrowded in the upper story. Wherever you find the most honest and intelligent merchant or banker, or the best lawyer, the best doctor, the best clergyman, the best shoemaker, carpenter, or anything else, that man is most sought for, and has always enough to do.

Emphasis of title. The competent leader requires no "title" to give him the respect of his followers. The man who makes too much over his title generally has little else to emphasize. The doors to the office of the real leader are open to all who wish to enter, and his working quarters are free from formality or ostentation.

If a leader is a real leader, he will have no need to advertise that fact except by his conduct-his sympathy, understanding, fairness, and a demonstration that he knows his job.

The competent leader requires no title to give him the respect of his followers. The man who makes too much over his title generally has little else to emphasize.

If you really are smarter than others, show them with your actions.