Quotes About Competence

I know I'm a great player, so I'm going to come out and just let that show, and that's going to be enough.

That's the great thing about Apple: it's very focused on the things that we know how to do very well and not try to extend ourselves to areas that we know very little about or don't have a lot of expertise in.

You really don't get into a groove until you play two or three games.

I'm prepared to guard anyone.

I always thought I could do everything that a guard could do.

I'm just very confident at all times. I've always been like that, no matter who's guarding me or who I'm on the court with.

I'm generally a very happy guy because I'm doing what I want. I'm willing to tell you that there are people who are much better than I am in writing. I don't have to be the fastest gun in the West.

I'm really good at gymnastics, and that's about it.

It really is amazing that some days you'll come out and you'll feel like you can beat anyone, and then some days you come out and you've got no confidence in the world, and you can't break an egg with a hammer.

Because competence-building represents more cumulative learning than great leaps of inventiveness, it is difficult to "time compress" competence-building.

Well, he may be long in the tooth, but one doesn't get to be leader of such a nation if he's mentally confused or doddering in old age.

From this day forward, Flight Control will be known by two words: 'Tough and Competent.' Tough means we are forever accountable for what we do or what we fail to do. We will never again compromise our responsibilities. Every time we walk into Mission Control we will know what we stand for. "Competent means we will never take anything for granted. We will never be found short in our knowledge and in our skills. Mission Control will be perfect.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

He who can, does; he who cannot, teaches.

In my opinion, legal training only makes a man more incompetent in questions that require knowledge of another kind. People talk about evidence as if it could really be weighed in scales by a blind Justice. No man can judge what is good evidence on any particular subject, unless he knows that subject well. A lawyer is no better than an old woman at a post-mortem examination.

In my opinion, said Lydgate, legal training only makes a man more incompetent in questions that require knowledge of another kind.

I think women are used to stepping up and getting the job done when you need to.

I wondered whether being a Political Science student and a teacher are sufficient qualifications to become a politician and quickly adapt to the complex world of politics.

My father once said about being a parent that it is the only thing you do that requires a very long period of learning, and at about the time that you are becoming competent, you don't need the skills anymore. Notwithstanding this modest assessment of their parenting skills, they were wonderful parents.

There's probably a lot of people wondering if I can play.

I like the guy who reads. Being articulate is something that's very important to me. But you need to know how to chop wood and fix a car and do guy things. I didn't grow up with spectators. Nobody was a spectator.

I never heard Jack Nicklaus say, 'I'm a great player,' or Tiger Woods, as a matter of fact. They just get out and do it. And I think that's far more appealing... than talking about how good you are.

I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.

No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence.