Quotes About Competence

We didn't underestimate them. They were just a lot better than we thought.

Haters...are all failures. It's 100% across the board. No one who is truly brilliant at anything is a hater.

My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing.

Depend not on others, but yourself when the job must be done right the first time.

Real confidence comes not from talking all you can, but from giving the best you can...

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

Self confidence is an ability to be self competent and to remain controlled in challenging situations. Self confident people are able to make decisions and take full responsibility for the consequences. They have the ability to bounce back from failures.

Achievement can be satisfying but does not make you more worthy. Instead, worth is an inherent quality and all people possess it.

If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the "naturals," the ones who somehow know how to teach.

We need programs that will teach athletes how to spell "jump shot" rather than how to shoot it.

The greatest unsolved theorem in mathematics is why some people are better at it than others.

The question Who ought to be boss is like as Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.

Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.

Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.

Toda persona que se sienta incompetente para aprender se sentirá superada por eso que tiene que aprender. Si el profesor no le transmite la fe que tiene en sus posibilidades ni su apoyo, ese alumno se irá bloqueando cada vez más. En esos momentos, lo que el profesor ha de lograr es que el alumno tenga la sensación de que controla algo. La sensación de que no se controla nada genera una profunda y dolorosa sensación de impotencia.

learn the trade, not the tricks of the trade.

self-identity ("This is who I am and the only way I feel confident, competent, and in control").

The more anxious and alone or inadequate and incompetent they feel, the more tenaciously they hold to whatever thoughts, attitudes and behaviors bring relief. If they do not develop more effective coping mechanisms, the ones that bring relief solidify into self-defeating behaviors.

when leaders fail to thrive, the culprit is often their leadership character, not their lack of skills.

And it makes you wonder—how can a people incapable of selecting their own lightbulbs and toilets possess enough competence to vote for their own rulers and fill out complicated tax returns?

To be successful in an area, you have to respect the people who are successful in that area, or you are disrespecting the very thing that you want to become.

Appearance is the consequence of fitness, and confidence is a consequence of capability.

I always feel I do it too slow, but then others do it faster.