I will never become a horse trainer, a biologist, a person competent with a hammer. My loves were my loves. — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Indeed there are many competent people who are plagued by a sense of inefficacy, and many less competent ones who remain unperturbed… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
In real life I'm not the character I play in my films. I'm reasonably competent, I work very hard, I'm disciplined, I… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
A good landscape painting is not just a demonstration of competent application of paint. It must offer a feeling of homage to… — Keith Shackleton Copy Share Image
The good photographer will produce a competent picture every time whatever his subject. But only when his subject makes and immediate and… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
Seek advice from those who are competent through their own experience and success to give it. — George S. Clason Copy Share Image
An incompetent lawyer can delay a trial for months or years. A competent lawyer can delay one even longer. — Evelle J. Younger Copy Share Image
'Argo,' 'Lincoln,' and 'Zero Dark Thirty,' three films honored with Best Picture Oscar nominations, lionize their Washington-anchored protagonists as crafty, competent, and… — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
Stardom is just an uneasy seat on top of a tricky toboggan. Being a star is merely perching at the head of… — Fredric March Copy Share Image
One might feel indignant at the injustice which deals out what is called fame with so unequal a hand, were it not… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
“Believe in yourself and relief yourself of the undue anxiety of feelings of incompetency. Leave worry aside and live with the hope… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
There is no trifling with nature; it is always true, grave, and severe; it is always in the light, and the faults… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I think of a piece, and then people who are competent fabricate it. But lately I've started finger painting, which probably should… — Jenny Holzer Copy Share Image
There is no rigorous and effective deconstruction without the faithful memory of philosophies and literatures, without the respectful and competent reading of… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
If you do not have an alert and curious interest in character and dramatic situation, if you have no visual imagination and… — Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien Copy Share Image
The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers. — James Agate Copy Share Image
We can let our past [difficulties and failures] beat us or teach us [to be more knowledgeable, competent and realistic in the… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
I always want to be - and appear to be - competent. When I don't achieve that, I don't respond well. — Melissa Leong Copy Share Image
When you smile you don't only appear to be more likable and courteous, you appear to be more competent. — Ron Gutman Copy Share Image
The more we give importance to skill development, the more competent will be our youth. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
To be any sort of competent writer one must keep one's psychological distance from the supreme artists. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No member of the faithful could possibly deny that the Church is competent in her magisterium to interpret the natural moral law. — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image