Competent Quotes

226 quotes by 197 authors

An incompetent lawyer can delay a trial for months or years. A competent lawyer can delay one even longer. — Evelle J. Younger
I think the fault is more with historicists who have stubbornly failed to develop a good theory of historicity. By simply resting on the feeble… — Earl Doherty
Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian. — Lee Simonson
In business, integrity is just as important as in any of the great public offices... but I believe one of the first and fundamental obligations… — Peter Cosgrove
In living in the world by his own will and skill, the stupidest peasant or tribesman is more competent than the most intelligent worker or… — Wendell Berry
If you do not have an alert and curious interest in character and dramatic situation, if you have no visual imagination and are unable to… — Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien
Whether the teacher is authoritarian, undisciplined, competent, incompetent, serious, irresponsible, involved, a lover of people and of life, cold, angry with the world, bureaucratic, excessively… — Paulo Freire
If there have been those who doubted whether a confederated representative democracy were a government competent to the wise and orderly management of the common… — John Quincy Adams
The analyses ... often become too competent to be comprehensible... — Avinash Dixit
From the Balkans to Africa, from Asia to the Middle East, we have witnessed the weakening or absence of effective governance leading to the ravaging… — Ban Ki-moon
I told that girl, in the kindest, gentlest way, that I could not consent to deliver judgment upon any one's manuscript, because an individual's verdict… — Mark Twain
Although our prospect is peace, our policy and purpose are to provide for defense by all those means to which our resources are competent. — Thomas Jefferson
How infinitely happier and more grateful is the whole personality or spirit when it finds something nourishing in art or writing or thinking, than the… — Kenny Smith
We established however some, although not all its [self-government] important principles . The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent… — Thomas Jefferson
I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. ... I'm probably writing music now for the same… — Billy Joel
These microscopic organisms form an entire world composed of species, families and varieties whose history, which has barely begun to be written, is already fertile… — Louis Pasteur
There are numerous daytime and night time photographs and videotapes of clearly non-human spacecraft from all over the world; these films and videotapes have been… — Steven M. Greer
Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely… — John Carmack
I'm disappointed, depressed, and demoralized. [...] It is very hard to avoid the conclusion that President Bush flinched from a fight on constitutional philosophy. Miers… — William Kristol
There is nothing miraculous about puzzles. Competent mentalism is miraculous. — Max Maven

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