Quotes About Competence

I've been nominated for Academy Awards, I know what I'm doing.

By definition, the person who learns enough to become the nominee is almost certainly the best person for the general election.

I think actors become jacks-of-all-trades and masters of none.

I'll put my record of service up against anyone, bar none.

I wouldn't say that I'm a jack-of-all-trades, master of none, but I wouldn't say that I'm brilliant at any.

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.

Normally, I know what I'm doing.

Normally, if you go through a game without attracting attention, you are doing a hell of a job.

I'm normally a player that plays well under the TV lights, the cameras and everything, I normally do produce quite well.

I'm not interested in on-the-job learning or on-the-job training.

I played there a couple of times in Leverkusen, playing as the striker was nothing new for me I knew what to do - it was fully okay.

Sometimes the better an actor is, the less he's noticed.

I guess I know how to dress myself, and that's probably the only thing I can do, so it's nice that somebody notices.

I don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing.

Nowadays, to be a good world-ranked decathlete, you need to be good at everything.

Math is the great equalizer. If you can do the numbers, the boys have to respect you.

There are people who are good for letters and others that are good for numbers.

I shoot occasionally, but I'm no gun expert.

There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you.

The only process you've mastered is the process of elimination, and the only reason you've mastered that is because you can do it in the toilet.

Graff had isolated Ender to make him struggle. To make him prove, not that he was competent, but that he was far better than everyone else. That was the only way he could win respect and friendship. It made him a better soldier then he would ever have been otherwise. It also made him lonely, afraid, angry, untrusting. And maybe those traits, too, made him a better soldier.

Do you think we're making a mistake? snapped the Bishop. Not at all, said Dom Cristao. I think we've taken a step toward something truly magnificent. But humankind almost never forgives true greatness. Fortunately, said the Bishop, humankind isn't the judge that matters. And now I intend to pray for this boy, since medical science has obviously reached the boundary of its competence.

Graff had deliberately set him up to be separate from the other boys, made it impossible for him to be close to them. And he began now to suspect the reasons behind it. It wasn't to unify the rest of the group—in fact, it was divisive. Graff had isolated Ender to make him struggle. To make him prove, not that he was competent, but that he was far better than everyone else.

Sólo hay una cosa que hará que dejen de odiarte. Y esa cosa es ser tan bueno en todo lo que hagas que no puedan ignorarte. Les he dicho que eres el mejor. ¡Mejor que lo seas!