"So many people can now write competent stories……" — Flannery O'Connor
"So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence."
More Competence Quotes
- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. — Isaac Asimov
- Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them… — Allan Bloom
- But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with. — John Cleese
- Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence. — Kingsley Amis
- Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age. And let… — Jon Stewart
- We godless lack that certainty, and we know the world is a complex place that requires compromise and is not… — PZ Myers
- People value honesty. They value integrity. They value competence and courage and all those kinds of things. — Richard A. Kidd
- The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general… — H. L. Mencken
- In our culture we make heroes of the men who sit on top of a heap of money, and we… — Max Lerner
- Success demands a high level of logistical and organizational competence. — George S. Patton
- Since science's competence extends to observable and measurable phenomena, not to the inner being of things, and to the means,… — Jacques Maritain
- The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan