Quotes About Competence

I shouldn't have to come out and say, 'Hey, I should be a starter again.' There's a lot of guys that say that, that shouldn't be starters. The key is to go out on the field and lead your team to show people that, 'Hey, this guy is a good guy in the locker room. He can lead a team. He did it on the field. He's shown it.'

I like to make statements on the field.

When a very tough, old school leader announced that I was his pick to be Chief of Station in a small but important frontier post, a few competitors complained to me directly 'why would they send you?' I owe that leader much for believing in me at a time when few women were given these opportunities.

If I am the best, I am capable of saying it, but if I find the others better, I am also capable of shutting up. And staying on the bench. Full stop.

I'm an established fighter, not a fighter who needs steady progression.

If we're not doing better, it's almost always our own inability to execute, not because someone else is stealing our market share or something.

I feel I've proved I can rebound, block shots, get steals and pass the ball, too.

When I step forward on the floor, I have the confidence that I'm the best player playing that night and that I am the most prepared at what I need to be doing.

No good workman without good tools.

it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.

Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.

As it turns out, however, the more specific reason that unskilled or incompetent people overestimate their abilities far more than others is because they lack a key skill called "metacognition." This is the ability to know when you're not good at something by stepping back, looking at what you're doing, and then realizing that you're doing it wrong.

The Dunning-Kruger Effect, in sum, means that the dumber you are, the more confident you are that you're not actually dumb.

the more specific reason that unskilled or incompetent people overestimate their abilities far more than others is because they lack a key skill called "metacognition.

Why can't people simply accept these differences in knowledge or competence? This is an unreasonable question, since it amounts to saying "Why don't people just accept that other people are smarter than they are?" (Or, conversely, "Why don't smart people just explain why other people are dumber than they are?") The reality is that social insecurity trips up both the smart and the dumb. We all want to be liked. In

Why would I need someone to make sure I do my job correctly?" answered the Japanese worker. "That's my job.

whoever the men be to whom the government of any country is entrusted, they ought to be the best and wisest that can be found, and if they are not so, they are not fit for the station.

And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also.

Can't tell, Si. Never had no talent that way.

Train with decisiveness the task of measuring whether you can do this.

Real men don't use instructions, son. Besides, this is just the manufacturer's opinion on how to put this together.

There's no question in my mind that I think I would have been a better president than Barack Obama has been.

There is no reason why women cannot be as good as the men.

Though I have no real understanding of the mechanics of football, and can only nod along helplessly at complex post-match analyses, I do enjoy watching people who are enormously good at something doing that thing very well.