Competently Quotes
14 quotes by 14 authors
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
— Isaac Asimov
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I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
— Samuel Beckett
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Government seems to operate on the principle that if even one individual is incapable of using his freedom competently, no one can be allowed to…
— Harry Browne
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An effective leader creates specific, achievable goals, initiates action and enlists the participation of others. They remove distractions; grasps the bigger picture, focuses on one…
— Ken Wyatt
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Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life. The most effective men…
— Brian Tracy
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Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect halves.…
— Helen Garner
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I can only think that the book is read because it deals with the difficulties of schooling, which do not change. Please note: the difficulties,…
— Jacques Barzun
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True sanity entails in one way or another the dissolution of the normal ego, that false self competently adjusted to our alienated social reality... and…
— R. D. Laing
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As Mr. Nagle so competently points out, almost no one uses Eiffel; in fact until recently there were only 9 users. But now a 10th…
— Bertrand Meyer
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Colleges and universities, for all the benefits they bring, accomplish far less for their students than they should. Many students graduate without being able to…
— Derek Bok
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anyone who writes about "Darwin's theory of evolutionin the singular, without segregating the theories of gradual evolution, common descent, speciation, and the mechanism of natural…
— Ernst Mayr
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It is the chair in honor of all those who, however competently, embrace the impossible. Sit in that chair someday.
— Robert Fulghum
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A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his…
— Wendell Berry
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Tis evident, that as common Air when reduc'd to half Its wonted extent, obtained near about twice as forcible a Spring as it had before;…
— Robert Boyle
Who Wrote These Competently Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 14 Competently Quotes as follows: