Incompetent Quotes

146 Incompetent quotes by 123 unique authors

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. — Isaac Asimov
Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry… — Russell Baker
There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best… — Martin Van Buren
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me. — John Cleese
I've been told that I'm incompetent, socially retarded, maladjusted. I still know that I couldn't function in reality. Los Angeles is a good place for… — Diablo Cody
The way the public sees it is this. If we don't leave, we are idiots. If we do leave but don't succeed in our mission,… — Bertrand Piccard
No matter how much someone may irritate me, I have no right to puff myself up with my own self-importance so as to declare that… — Paulo Freire
When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the… — Cyril Connolly
I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death. — William Allen White
God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, and the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in his arms, but also a kind… — H. L. Mencken
At the end of the day...if your army won't fight, it's because they don't trust their incompetent, corrupt generals, they don't trust each other. This… — Barry McCaffrey
Our problem is that we assume prayer is something to master the way we master algebra or auto mechanics. But when praying, we come "underneath,"… — Richard J. Foster
...if the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the… — Noah Webster
About Mike the construction worker, friend of Roark: "He worshipped expertness of any kind. He loved his work passionately and had no tolerance for anything… — Ayn Rand
Science is incompetent to reason upon the creation of matter itself out of nothing. We have reached the utmost limit of our thinking faculties when… — James Clerk Maxwell
A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective. — Sun Tzu
An incompetent lawyer can delay a trial for months or years. A competent lawyer can delay one even longer. — Unknown Author
The God whom we worship is not a weak and incompetent God. He is able to beat back gigantic waves of opposition and to bring… — Martin Luther
No parents will in that future time have the right to burden society with a malformed or mentally incompetent child. — H. Bentley Glass
Are you lazy or just incompetent? — Jeff Bezos
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
When you go back to your environment and you deal with employees... do you inspire people or do you make them feel fear? Do you… — Liz Murray
If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds… — Vaclav Havel
RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless. — Ambrose Bierce
You should know how many incompetent men I had to compete with-in vain. — Unknown Author

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