Competent Quotes

226 quotes by 197 authors

We are really pleased with our revenues but our goal isn't to make money. It sounds a little flippant, but it's the truth. Our goal… — Jonathan Ive
Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great. Competent design is not too much of a stretch. But if you are trying… — Jonathan Ive
It is reasonable to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star. — Arthur Eddington
All these people keep waxing sentimental about how fabulously well I am doing as a mother, how competent I am, but I feel inside like… — Anne Lamott
Science asks no questions about the ontological pedigree or a priori character of a theory, but is content to judge it by its performance; and… — Chauncey Wright
To act honestly- even at the risk of saying the unpleasant truth, or of saying no and causing distress to others- if done with intelligence… — Piero Ferrucci
Luck is an accident that happens to the competent. — Albert M. Greenfield
Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate farmers, liquidate real estate. It will purge the rottenness out of the system. High costs of living and high living… — Andrew Mellon
Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up the wrecks from less competent people. — Andrew Mellon
Physiological psychology, on the other hand, is competent to investigate the relations that hold between the processes of the physical and those of the mental… — Wilhelm Wundt
Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and… — Frederick Winslow Taylor
And the most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain. — William Wordsworth
Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each… — William James
We can let our past [difficulties and failures] beat us or teach us [to be more knowledgeable, competent and realistic in the future]! — Zig Ziglar
It is really quite amazing by what margins competent but conservative scientists and engineers can miss the mark, when they start with the preconceived idea… — Arthur C. Clarke
America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music schools with competent teachers, and many, very many, free scholarships… — Anton Seidl
Men are competent in groups that mimic the playground, incompetent in groups that mimic the family — Jane Smiley
When you smile you don't only appear to be more likable and courteous, you appear to be more competent. — Ron Gutman
In view of the vast size of the occupied areas in the East the forces available for establishing security in these areas will be sufficient… — Alfred Jodl
I'm a huge Obama fan. I think it's such an unbelievably great thing to have a President who's competent and not insane. — Randy Cohen

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