Competence Quotes · Page 9

That myth--that image of the madonna-mother--has disabled us from knowing that, just as men are more than fathers, women are morethan mothers.…

— Lillian B. Rubin

Despite popular opinion, there are no important parallels between Madonna and Monroe, who was a virtuoso comedienne but who was in secure,…

— Camille Paglia

When reputable scientists correct flaws in an experiment that produced fantastic results, then fail to get those results when they repeat the…

— Martin Gardner

If many of our young people have lost the excitement of the early settlers, who had a country to explore and develop,…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Can you understand why the Congress, most states and most cities refuse to pass legislation requiring the registration and licensing of any…

— Malcolm Forbes

Ours is not a culture that respects the sick, the old or the vulnerable. We strive for independence, competence, and mastery. In…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

To me it seems pretty obvious that it would be simple to build a business around helping people achieve autonomy, a feeling…

— Tara Hunt

In the case of all other sciences, arts, skills, and crafts, everyone is convinced that a complex and laborious programme of learning…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Men are constantly attracted and deluded by two opposite charms: the charm of competence which is engendered by mathematics and everything akin…

— Leo Strauss

No doubt there are some who, when confronted with a line of mathematical symbols, however simply presented, can only see the face…

— Roger Penrose

“Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a portion of mankind, after nature has long since discharged them from external…

— Immanuel Kant

There are a few investment managers, of course, who are very good - though in the short run, it's difficult to determine…

— Warren Buffett

Competence is a great creator of confidence.

— Mary Jo Putney

Competence is no longer scarce.

— Seth Godin

Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

You must have confidence in your competence.

— Elijah Cummings

Anger, pride and competence are our real enemies.

— Dalai Lama

True competence is based on one’s own ability to observe.

— L. Ron Hubbard

Learn to do the common things uncommonly well.

— George Washington Carver

Our campaign is the opposite of 'competence.'

— William J. Clinton

Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence.

— Ron Suskind

It reflects no great honour on a painter to be able to execute one thing well.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

— Peggy Noonan

Train yourself: It is not by accident an artist becomes a good painter.

— Sergei Bongart

“Deep in my heart politeness impresses me more than competence.”

— Amit Kalantri

Lowered reliability obviously yields a lesser competence. But lowered breadth does so as well.

— Ernest Sosa

The RNC was run so badly you could walk through their deepest competence and not get your ankles wet.

— John Fund

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.

— Anonymous

“The technique of tredding the success path is making a single step, and if you are kinda afraid to throw the second…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

The situation in Iraq and the reckless economic policies in the United States speak to one issue for me, and that is…

— Nancy Pelosi

Rudy Giuliani is on the list [of Secretary of State ] not because of competence, not because of foreign policy experience, he's…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

The guy may be totally motivated, connected and inspired, but if he doesn't know how to do it, he's not the guy…

— Robert Genn

An important re-engineering principle is that companies should focus on their core competence and outsource everything else.

— Bill Gates

Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age. And let the chips…

— Jon Stewart

Departure from the literal aspect, rather than mechanical exactness, is the code of the true artist. However, departures are the result of…

— Edgar Alwin Payne

I really think I am a nice person. [But] this is not going to be an election on niceness. This is going…

— Donald Trump

So who is God? No one can finally say. That is not within human competence. All we can ever say is how…

— John Shelby Spong

Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility: it's…

— Adam Gopnik

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

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