Quotes About Competence

My jiu-jitsu is very good, and anytime I'm able to show what my coaches and my team are capable of doing, I really enjoy it.

I do appreciate a woman who has a passion for sports and knows their stuff.

I'm good at what I do. I'm really, really good at what I do, and I'm not saying this with any level of arrogance.

I'm not arrogant but I'm confident enough to know what I can do and what I can't do. And I'm fine with what I can't.

I'm not arrogant about my defense.

You know when you play for Arsenal, if you want to play for Arsenal, you need to be very, very good.

As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.

I wouldn't say I'm better than Ashley Cole but I would like to think I am up there with him.

Influential thinkers in the West have done an admirable job of cleaving apart excellence in technique from distinction in morality. We appreciate that a person can be highly skilled without being moral in the least; that a person can be ethical without having the requisite competence; and that many of us stand out neither in terms of excellence nor social responsibility.

People forget how fast you did a job -- but they remember how well you did it.

I remembered my father used to tell me that whatever you choose to do, be a professional.

A genius in the wrong position could look like a fool.

Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it.

Those who can't, try: those who can, don't have to.

Cuando el Hombre Superior hace algo digno de admiración, es una prueba de su Maestría, no el objeto de ella.

Nadie puede interponerse entre tú y el conocimiento, si eres apto para éste.

The man who knows must discharge a function. The one who does not, cannot arrogate one to himself; he can only try to do so.

El hombre que sabe debe desempeñar una función. El que no sabe, no puede atribuirse una a sí mismo; sólo puede tratar de hacerlo.

I've often heard blowhard leaders boast, "My outfit is so good, it could function well without me." Hmm, then why do they need you?

Je suis capable du meilleur et du pire. Mais, dans le pire, c'est moi le meilleur !

The most foolish is he who underestimates another's abilities.

You can do everything, but you can't do everything well.

The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters.

Most days I woke up brimming with a sudden terror--that I'd forgotten to do essential things, that I'd never make friends in Colorado, that my appearance as an adult in the world was only a thin candy shell hiding a tiny, rattling center of incompetent thirteen-year-old, or worse yet, nothing at all.