Competent Quotes

226 quotes by 195 authors

I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic. — Natascha McElhone
As any competent student of literary composition knows, the more natural and casual a voice sounds in print, the more likely it is to have… — Albert Murray
The improvisational nature of jazz musicianship is such that a truly competent performer must be prepared to function as an on-the-spot composer who is expected… — Albert Murray
I feel that people should have a license to have children, that they have proper education how to raise children. And that nobody should be… — Paul Watson
I remember when President Bush, George W. Bush, came into office, he focused on No Child Left Behind, and with - and before very long,… — Lamar Alexander
Rob Hall was, without doubt, the most competent guide in mountaineering. — Jon Krakauer
It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a… — Arthur Eddington
If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2… — Bill Wyman
At the same time, the Reagan Administration assured that the main elements of policymaking were in the hands of competent loyalists, thus assuring a successful… — Richard V. Allen
While the President leads his potential adversaries in almost every state, his support is soft. He is seen as honest, sincere, just, and friendly but… — Robert Teeter
We are to see the development of the country pushed forward at an unprecedented rate by an aggregation of capital, and a systematic application of… — William Graham Sumner
By competent evidence, is meant such as the nature of the thing to be proved requires; and by satisfactory evidence, is meant that amount of… — Simon Greenleaf
Proceeding further, to inquire whether the facts related by the Four Evangelists are proved by competent and satisfactory evidence, we are led, first, to consider… — Simon Greenleaf
Even a competent lawyer may not be able to mount an adequate defense against the state, with all its resources, if he has next to… — Anthony Lewis
Nevertheless, in order to imbue civilization with sound principles and enliven it with the spirit of the gospel, it is not enough to be illumined… — Pope John XXIII
True leaders are not just competent at what they do; they make good decisions about what to do — Melchor Lim
The problem with the Peter Principle is that it assumes somebody somewhere is competent in the first place. — John Alejandro King Aka The Covert Comic
Never risk throwing your hearts at incompetent hearts, they would let it crash. Throw it into competent hearts that would die to save it, keep… — Terry Mark
You basically have a group of four spies who are chosen for a mission they feel for the fact of how competent they are and… — Matt LeBlanc
Most of us take it for granted that the person performing our radiologic procedures is a competent professional. But the fact is, poorly trained individuals… — Charles W. Pickering

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