I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience. — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush. — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
First, we need to focus government on the things that are required of the State. Second, we need to achieve competence in… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Success is better than failure; an attempt is a better attempt, it is better as an attempt, if competent than if incompetent;… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with. — John Cleese Copy Share Image
The pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Training programs shouldn't be designed to deliver competence; they must be dedicated to producing excellence. Serious organizations don't aspire to be comfortably… — Brandon Webb Copy Share Image
“There is no set time for a skill to be attained. Each skill is required uniquely at a certain time and from… — Mitta Xinindlu Copy Share Image
There is no more critical indicator of the future of a society than the character, competence, and integrity of its youth. — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
Some aim to be deft, others to be laboriously careful. Neither dexterity nor conscientiousness is enough. — Chai Lu Copy Share Image
An organization's success has more to do with clarity of shared purpose, common principles and strength of belief in them than to… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
Modern children were considerably less innocent than parents and the larger society supposed, and postmodern children are less competent than their parents… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
We can pursue the Cartesian project without restricting ourselves to theology and a priori faculties. A better, broader perspective is properly sought… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
Politicians are very experienced - maybe too experienced - at using body language to signal power and competence. But what these politicians… — Amy Cuddy Copy Share Image
A human group transforms itself into a crowd when it suddenly responds to a suggestion rather than to reasoning, to an image… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Given its more substantial aim, a judgment is apt only if its constitutive alethic affirmation is not only apt but aptly apt.… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
With a profound first-hand knowledge of participants, encompassing linguistic competence, and engaging prose, Padraic Kenney recreates the simultaneously serious and playful currents… — Charles S. Maier Copy Share Image
“The oldest problem in economic education is how to exclude the incompetent. A certain glib mastery of verbiage-the ability to speak portentously… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Commentators frequently blame MMORPGs for an increasing sense of isolation in modern life. But virtual worlds are less a cause of that… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
It's instructive to consider the more spectacular and well-known falls from grace of leaders in the public eye... In the main, the… — Peter Cosgrove Copy Share Image
The success of this Government, and thus the success of our Nation, depends in the last analysis upon the quality.of our career… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
In tribal times, there were the medicine men. In the Middle Ages, there were the priests. Today, there are the lawyers. For… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
You can't participate in agriculture or redesign of aircraft for making them safer if you know nothing about it. So, whenever a… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
There is one brain organ that is optimised for understanding and articulating logical processes and that is the outer layer of the… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
