Competent Quotes

226 quotes by 197 authors

While photography is the easiest medium in which to be competent, it is the hardest in which to develop an idiosyncratic personal vision. — Chuck Close
It is the basic principle of spiritual life that we learn the deepest things in unknown territory. Often it is when we feel most confused… — Jack Kornfield
Why do otherwise sane, competent, strong men, men who can wrestle bears or raid corporations, shrink away in horror at the thought of washing a… — Frank Pittman
The acid test for any theology is this: Is the God presented one that can be loved, heart, soul, mind, and strength? ... If it… — Dallas Willard
Zalasiewicz is convinced that even a moderately competent stratigrapher will, at the distance of a hundred million years or so, be able to tell that… — Elizabeth Kolbert
You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don't think him competent. — Dallas Willard
Men are very competent in their workplace - and this is going to sound sexist - women are better at running households and juggling lots… — Patricia Heaton
Values and verdicts never bother me half as much as people trying to weasel their way around them, or people compromising their reason to pander… — Kenny Smith
Look somewhere else for someone who can follow you in your researches about numbers. For my part, I confess that they are far beyond me,… — Blaise Pascal
Successful careers are not planned. They develop when people are prepared for opportunities because they know their strengths, their method of work, and their values.… — Peter Drucker
Christine and I haven't raised our children. A whole community of selfless Christians has contributed to helping them become faithful, competent adults. — Clayton Christensen
INADMISSIBLE- Not competent to be considered. Hearsay evidence is inadmissible ... but there is no religion in the world that has any other basis than… — Ambrose Bierce
Therefore: In dwelling, choose modest quarters, in thinking, value stillness, in dealing with others, be kind, in choosing words, be sincere, in leading, be just,… — Laozi
Don't blame me for the fact that competent programming, as I view it as an intellectual possibility, will be too difficult for the average programmer,… — Edsger Dijkstra
When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor. — Eric S. Raymond
The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers. — James Agate
The future belongs to the competent — Brian Tracy
Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at. — Robyn Hitchcock
In his 4 years in the White House, President Carter worked to make the Federal Government more competent and compassionate and more responsive to the… — Nathan Deal
We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins. — Edward Bond

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