Quotes About Competence

It will soon be difficult to put up a shelf without a degree in shelf putting up.

We "overvalue performance," as one psychologist put it, "and undervalue the self." We're afraid of being just okay at things. This is a trap. "For to permit yourself to do only that which you're good at," writes the legal scholar Tim Wu, "is to be trapped in a cage whose bars are not steel but self-judgment.

Isao Aoki is one of the three best players in the world from 100yards. Maybe the best

high confidence causes low competence, which in turn causes denial, until one faces the facts and confidence is lowered—then, progress may start.

Competence is an ability; confidence is the belief in that ability.

Competence is how good you are at something. Confidence is how good you think you are at something.

the under-representation of women in leadership was not due to their lack of ability or motivation, but due to our inability to detect incompetence in men.

There is a world of difference between the personality traits and behaviours it takes to be chosen as a leader and the traits and skills you need to be able to lead.

I noticed that this defense attorney is a very, very intelligent man, and he's very cool and he's very knowledgeable, and I think that personally I'd like to have an attorney like him.

When you don't know what you're talking about, it's hard to know when you're finished.

But would the man who hunted him still be here? Leaphorn considered this. The man would have known he had flushed his bird. He needed to be a fairly competent tracker to find George's kill site. But once George was running, covering his tracks, he would have to be much better than that. He would have to be as good as Joe Leaphorn — and perhaps better than Leaphorn. As far as Leaphorn knew, there were no better trackers than himself. Certainly no Zuni, or white man.

In a significant number of cases, people actually get worse at their jobs over time. "More

people with the highest levels of intelligence (IQ) outperform those with average IQs just 20% of the time, while people with average IQs outperform those with high IQs 70% of the time.

They are often extremely competent people who are committed to doing things very well and have a fear of making mistakes and being human. They tend to be judgmental of others

Tell me about someone who is better than you in an area that really matters to you." Look for the candidate to demonstrate a genuine appreciation for others who have more skill or talent. Humble people are comfortable with this. Ego-driven people often are not.

even though clients require us to be competent enough to meet their needs, it is ultimately our honesty, humility, and selflessness that will endear us to them and allow them to trust and depend on us.

A possible explanation may be this: in addition to professional competence, cheerful resignation, an excellent liver, natural authority and a hundred other virtues, there must be the far rarer quality of resisting the effects, the dehumanising effects, of the exercise of authority. Authority is a solvent of humanity: look

Ask any performer in the field who they would choose to lead them in a high-risk environment: the person with four years of college or the person with four years of experience? The answer is simple.

School chasers, on the other hand, will have stunning résumés but are functionally illiterate in their fields and are often socially inept. Much of the time, they put so much energy in getting certificates, they never do their job, or their entire focus is spent on getting the "slot," that they never have a chance to develop their team. Further, if they are always in school, they are never home to pass the knowledge on and develop their teams.

They feel that by simply being issued the special gear, they are qualified to do the mission. An old instructor said to me, "It takes five minutes to dress like a commando, but years to become one." This attitude of the "the gear makes me" is false. You always make the gear.

The confidence of amateurs is the envy of professionals.

To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with quality.