Micromanaging erodes people's confidence, making them overly dependennt on their leaders. Well-meaning leaders inadvertently sabotage their teams by rushing to the rescue… — Diane Dreher Copy Share Image
The Commission has five commissioners from each side, plus three alternates, so all together sixteen members, people who are independent from the… — Jose Ramos-Horta Copy Share Image
The fourth paradigm forces us at every point to discern between the creationally valid and the sinfully perverse and thus confronts us… — Albert M. Wolters Copy Share Image
One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance,… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Thanks to the competence, love of God, our country's security and stability, endowed wealth, integrated infrastructure and quality services, the U.A.E. turned… — Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Copy Share Image
I just sat there looking at television, sort of dumb and thought how horrible it was. I had -- the grand aspects… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
“Ordinary men wonder why those of only average intelligence so often rise to the highest levels of power, while highly intelligent people… — Dave Champion Copy Share Image
“Competence means keeping your head in a crisis, sticking with a task even when it seems hopeless, and improvising good solutions to… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
“Our culture doesn't seem to value competence as much as it used to. Now we seem to want to do and get… — Tom Walsh Copy Share Image
Most important, [research on affirmative action] has completely failed to show that affirmative action ever closes the academic gap between minorities and… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
It seems a miracle that young children easily learn the language of any environment into which they were born. The generative approach… — Niels Kaj Jerne Copy Share Image
“Our competence to excel in life depends on our ability to do what we can do.” — Sijin Bt Copy Share Image
I mistrust total competence. I've always felt life is a series of small disasters we try to get through. — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
Leadership shows judgment, wisdom, personal appeal and proven competence. — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
Writers of either gender ought to be able to do the opposite sex-that's one basic test of competence, after all. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
“The major reframe for the Superwoman/Man/Student is that competence is not a function of how many things you can do.” — Valerie Young Copy Share Image
It is only now that I understand that Love would have no competence without this lie that is a Truth! — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
Discipline is the habit of taking consistent action until one can perform with unconscious competence. Discipline weighs ounces but regret weighs tons. — Jhoon Goo Rhee Copy Share Image
There are, it is true, at present no great prizes in literature such as are offered by the learned professions, but there… — James Payn Copy Share Image
I'm a woman of mad competence. I'm very optimistic. l have high self-esteem. l give myself choices, and l always feel as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Listening (the first competence of leadership) is not a skill, it is a discipline. All you have to do is keep your… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
“Professional’ does not necessarily mean that the person so labelled is good or knows what they are doing. In many a case,… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
An ideology can provide a satisfying narrative that explains chaotic events and collective misfortunes in a way that flatters the virtue and… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
In order to qualify as a judgment, an affirmation must aim at getting it right aptly, through competence, and not just through… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“Fewer than one in twenty security professionals has the core competence and the foundation knowledge to take a system all the way… — Stephen Northcutt Copy Share Image
You must develop a sense of what you can contribute that goes beyond 1 company or organization. A career path today will… — Dan Miller Copy Share Image
Competence is a big word. It is important. I almost want to nuance it with the idea of giftedness because sometimes you… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
The Blair government perhaps ranks as the best the U.K. has had for 50 years. It cannot match the scale of Attlee's… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
When I accept someone's testimony, I am thus only a small part of the full seat of epistemic competence, which might include… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
Suppose we wonder whether we should trust the deliverances of our basic epistemic competences. If those are indeed our basic competences, then… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
There are three main areas of focus: vision, priorities and alignment. It is critical to articulate a clear vision - how do… — Robert S. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Love is a chemical reaction, but it cannot be fully understood or defined by science. And though a body cannot exist without… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Before committing to a task, it’s sensible to have a clear idea of our competence.” — Dr Prem Jagyasi Copy Share Image
First be a magnificent artist and then you can do whatever, but the art must be first. — Francisco Goya Copy Share Image
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