Competent Quotes

226 quotes by 195 authors

If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, then it must somehow… — Wendell Berry
All highly competent people continually search for ways to keep learning, growing, and improving. They do that by asking WHY. After all, the person who… — Benjamin Franklin
Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer. — Edsger Dijkstra
Have you noticed how difficult it is just to get along in the world? If you're no good at all in your job, people treat… — Jeff Lindsay
By a man's finger-nails, by his coat-sleeve, by his boots, by his trouser-knees, by the callosities of his forefinger and thumb, by his expression, by… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Anyone who has ever been able to sustain good work has had at least one person--and often many--who have believed in him or her. We… — Fred Rogers
Picture this scene. A critic arrives at the gates of heaven. 'And what did you do?' asks Saint Peter. 'Well', says the dead soul. 'I… — Stephen Fry
I never taught him to break him thumb." "That's Gansey for you. Only learns enough to be superficially competent." "Loser," Ronan agreed, and he was… — Maggie Stiefvater
So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence. — Flannery O'Connor
A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops. — John J. Pershing
He who knows how to teach a child is not competent for the oversight of a child's education unless he also knows how to train… — Henry Clay Trumbull
Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... so that never again can… — Wallace Stegner
There is no trifling with nature; it is always true, grave, and severe; it is always in the light, and the faults and errors fall… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What the church should be telling the worker is that the first demand religion makes on him is that he should be a good workman.… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
There are no physicists in the hottest parts of hell, because the existence of a hottest part implies a temperature difference, and any marginally competent… — Richard Davisson
Our true destiny...is a world built from the bottom up by competent citizens living in solid communities, engaged in and by their places. — David W. Orr
Bullying consists of the least competent most aggressive employee projecting their incompetence on to the least aggressive most competent employee and winning. — Tim Field
Games have been called the lab for the development of moral attributes, but they will not, of themselves, accomplish this purpose. They must be properly… — James Naismith
No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game. ... Galois died… — G. H. Hardy
Throughout U.S. history, competent public investments have been an essential complement to private investments - from the Louisiana Purchase, to land-grant colleges, to the Interstate… — Felix Rohatyn

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