I am simply competent... Not a leader except when…

The competent leader of men cares little for the niceties of other peoples' characters: he cares much--everything--for the exterior uses to which they may…

— Woodrow Wilson

A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.

— Anonymous

I think the most important thing... is leadership. It's something that has been lacking in young women and girls for a very long time,…

— Zozibini Tunzi

But medicine has long had all its means to hand, and has discovered both a principle and a method, through which the discoveries made…

— Hippocrates

As for mathematicians themselves: don't expect too much help. Most of them are too far removed in their ivory towers to take up such…

— Apostolos Doxiadis

As part of our ongoing series of reports on the environment, 'America Goes Green,' we take on the question that can make otherwise competent…

— Brian Williams

We could encourage the best qualities of youthfulness - curiosity, adventure, resilience, the capacity for surprising insight simply by being more flexible about time,…

— John Taylor Gatto

I have so many positive points. I am not corrupt, I am competent.

— Tamilisai Soundararajan

I remember when President Bush, George W. Bush, came into office, he focused on No Child Left Behind, and with - and before very…

— Lamar Alexander

If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these…

— Bill Wyman

There's always, I guess, a philosophy that if you come in, you want to change all the parts, you want to change everything over.…

— Pat Gillick

While photography is the easiest medium in which to be competent, it is the hardest in which to develop an idiosyncratic personal vision.

— Chuck Close

You basically have a group of four spies who are chosen for a mission they feel for the fact of how competent they are…

— Matt LeBlanc

“In your goals to go the extra mile, prepare to pay an extra cost. Excellence is to be exceptional, surpassing, more competent and a…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Almost everywhere we find . . . the use of various coercive measures, to rid ourselves as quickly as possible of the child withinus--i.e.,…

— Alice Miller