From my training I can get a good idea of what I'm capable of.
Our problem is that we make the mistake of comparing ourselves to other people. You are not inferior or superior to any human being...You do not determine your success by comparing yourself to others, rather you determine your success by comparing your accomplishments to your capabilities. You are 'number one' when you do the best you can with what you have.
At all points, you have to look at what you're doing and say, 'Do I want to do this?' 'Am I up to it?' 'Am I strong enough?'
In military science there is a principle more important than "Forward": it is that the task should be proportionate to the means.
What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to do.
But if I had to do it, handle money, then I think I could be responsible, yes.
Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don't apply to you.
When it's over and you look in the mirror, did you do the best you were capable of? If yes, you will probably be ok with the outcome
I know who I am, I know what I can and can't do. I know what I will and won't do. I know what I'm capable of and I don't agree to do things that I don't think I can pull off.
You don't know what's on the inside until you put a demand on your potential.
Give your players something they can physically do - don't ask them to do something they can't do.
Any approach to strategy quickly encounters a conflict between corporate objectives and corporate capabilities. Attempting the impossible is not good strategy. It is just a waste of resources.
I truly believe that women are extremely talented people and with the right opportunities, they perform as well and maybe better than men.
And certainly having gone to Oxford, and seen some of the other students there, I wouldn't say the ones at my school were less capable. They could've been there.
Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.
Success for me will be where the body of work I've done afforded me the opportunity to be as good as I can be, and to explore myself and to see what I'm capable of.
I have always been convinced of my qualities and never doubted what I'm capable of, even if a coach is judged by his results.
Age is a convenient barometer of what a person is capable of, but it is only one.
The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family.
We must give individuals the opportunity to show what they are capable of.
I claim to be no more than an average man with below average capabilities.
No man is without some quality, by the due application of which he might deserve well of the world; and whoever he be that has but little in his power should be in haste to do that little, lest he be confounded with him that can do nothing.
If I can do something, I do it. If not, I give the ball to someone else.
I do the best I can when I'm accepting the role to say, 'This is about as much as I can do, and if that's not suitable for you, then you should hire somebody else.'
What the SEAL teams do, what our training does, is it chips away the outer that layer and shows you what you're capable of and not capable of.
