Peter Kay Quotes

I am trained as a fashion designer and do not claim to be an expert architect or anything like that. I won't do something unless I know I can do it.

I know what I can do and what I can't.

Everybody's got a different circle of competence. The important thing is not how big the circle is. The important thing is staying inside the circle.

What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.

I think half the time I just assume I don't really know what I'm doing - you have to do that to a certain extent, but you don't have to think you're an idiot savant.

I'm fortunate to be a player who can do a lot of things well. Not everything perfectly, but several things well.

I'm good at what I do but, to be honest, not a whole hell of a lot else!

Whatever faults I may have, I do know a player.

The most important thing is knowing what you are good at.

There are roles that I can't do.

You better educate yourself. You don't stand in the front of the line unless you're up there because you know everything that's involved.

Let a man practice the profession which he best knows.

If you have competence, you pretty much know its boundaries already. To ask the question (of whether you are past the boundary) is to answer it.

Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.

I cannot do a better job than a journalist. I cannot do a better job than politicians - what I can do is play my football.

Not everybody can do everything at a high level.

Whatever work I do, I tend to do it fast and accurately, but when it comes to fields that I don't know about well, I prefer to just listen.

Those who have knowledge are more confident than those who have no knowledge, and they are more confident after they have learned than before.

Write about what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?

A learned man is not learned in all things; but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.

The essence of the expert is that his field shall be very special and narrow: one of the ways in which he inspires confidence is to rigidly limit himself to the little toe; he would scarcely venture an off-the-record opinion on an infected little finger.

I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.

The Man That Knowz Something Knowz That He Knowz Nothing At All.

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

The man who knows his limitations, has none.