“I am simply competent... Not a leader except when leadership is lacking.” — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
Sexism is so five minutes ago. I think for the most part, people accept that women are as competent as men. — Katie Couric Copy Share Image
There are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that. — Salman Khan Copy Share Image
I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent. — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
Christy has not been given a fair shake. She has not been identified as a competent premier, — Jim Shepard Copy Share Image
To an incompetent judge I must not lie, but I may be silent; to a competent I must answer. — John Donne 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
I think it's about having a competent president, and I don't really think gender has to do with how Hillary Clinton will… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
It is possible that the percentage of honest and competent whores is higher than that of plumbers and much higher than that… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“In your goals to go the extra mile, prepare to pay an extra cost. Excellence is to be exceptional, surpassing, more competent… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“In fact, to the extent that we feel competent, our fears of the potential for failure are not related to our procrastination.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The nation-state is becoming less and less competent to perform its international political tasks... These are some of the reasons pressing us… — Nelson Rockefeller Copy Share Image
I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to office-hugging, bone-idle… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
“We are almost always less or more competent than we believe ourselves to be. The unconscious,however, knows who we really are.” — M.Scott Peck Copy Share Image
We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll… — William Glasser Copy Share Image
It's an empirical question whether training makes one more or less likely to get in a fight outside the gym. In some… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
Under the natural course of things each citizen tends towards his fittest function. Those who are competent to the kind of work… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Women tend to recall the details of an emotionally competent stimulus, using more of their left hemisphere to do the processing. Men… — John Medina Copy Share Image
A railroad may have to be carried over a gorge or arroya. Obviously it does not need an Engineer to point out… — Henry R. Towne Copy Share Image
After generations of living under medical tutelage, which provides us with protection (albeit illusory) against "dangerous drugs", we have failed to cultivate… — Thomas Szasz 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
Mission Control will be perfect. When you leave this meeting today you will go to your office and the first thing you… — Gene Kranz Copy Share Image
You know better than I that in a Republic talent is always suspect. A man attains an elevated position only when his… — Niccolo Machiavelli 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
The first is that good writing consists of mastering the fundamentals (vocabulary, grammar, the elements of style) and then filling the third… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The humanitarian wishes to be a prime mover in the lives of others. He cannot admit either the divine or the natural… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
By closely supervising our infants, by allowing them to do what they are capable of, by restraining ourselves from rescuing them too… — Magda Gerber Copy Share Image
Quite often I have been faced with people who were praised and admired for their talents and their achievements... According to prevailing… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
These microscopic organisms form an entire world composed of species, families and varieties whose history, which has barely begun to be written,… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
How infinitely happier and more grateful is the whole personality or spirit when it finds something nourishing in art or writing or… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“The way to control circumstances is to control the forces within yourself to make a greater man of yourself, and as you… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
