Quotes About Competence

In fact, studies show that people are terrible at estimating their abilities.

Just because someone can do something with little or no training, it doesn't mean that others can't do it (and sometimes do it even better) with training.

Relying on theft and deceit is an unconscious admission of incompetence.

You can only do what you're capable of at the time.

Pissing is the least of my talents. You ought to see me shit

Why give a horse to a man who cannot ride?

A sword is only as good as the man who wields it.

I like simple things well-done and have no time to philosophize.

It please her to think that she made a better king than Robert.

With these skills, you can go for years without ever meeting a situation where you have to defend yourself.

Every skilled person is to be believed with reference to his own art.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

My parents told me that people will never know how long it takes you to do something. They will only know how well it is done.

When you step on the first tee it doesn't matter what you look like. ... It doesn't help your 5-iron if you're pretty.

Today any successful and competent businessman will employ the latest and best-tested methods in production, distribution, and administration, and many are discovering that one of the greatest of all efficiency methods is prayer power.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.

It is one thing to be gifted and quite another thing to be worthy of one's own gift.

The same man cannot be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.

People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.

To every man according to his ability.

They are able because they think they are able.

The surest sign of fitness is success.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

What I do, I do very well, and what I don't do well, I don't do at all.