Competent Quotes

226 quotes by 197 authors

There are myths about kids spending time online - that it is dangerous or making them lazy. But we found that spending time online is… — Mizuko Ito
I think of a piece, and then people who are competent fabricate it. But lately I've started finger painting, which probably should be a joke… — Jenny Holzer
Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Reengineering cannot be entrusted to the semi-competent, the hangers-on with nothing better to do. — Michael Martin Hammer
Democrats consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them, therefore, and wish to leave in them all… — Thomas Jefferson
The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the… — Brian Tracy
What's wrong with "the new elite?" Forget cultural insularity or smugness. The main problem with the "new elite" is that they're not an elite at… — Glenn Reynolds
One may have a right to be unconventional and even eccentric, so long as one is fully competent and a decent person; but one's ideal… — Robert Audi
Birth is about making mothers... strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength — Barbara Katz Rothman
I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Any competent actor could have done what I did. — Larry Hovis
Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent — Robert Greene
The key to power, then, is the ability to judge who is best able to further your interests in all situations. Keep friends for friendship,… — Robert Greene
Christy has not been given a fair shake. She has not been identified as a competent premier, — Jim Shepard
If God does not save men by truth, he certainly will not save them by lies. And if the old gospel is not competent to… — Charles Spurgeon
The first is that good writing consists of mastering the fundamentals (vocabulary, grammar, the elements of style) and then filling the third level of your… — Stephen King
It seemed to a number of philosophers of language, myself included, that we should attempt to achieve a unification of Chomsky's syntax, with the results… — John Searle
Competition is for the competent. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
I hate climbers like Royal Robbins who are so superior. He doesnâ€™t mean to be, he just is. Heâ€™s methodic, scientific, capable, and so competent… — Warren G. Harding
That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence, they must receive competent assurances… — Isaac Barrow

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