Incompetence Quote by Jed Mercurio Download Open image “Standards in public life have decayed over time... Incompetence is the norm.” — Jed Mercurio ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Incompetence Life Public life Standards Time
The standards have sunk so low throughout our culture that who really knows. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
People can live up to high standards, but they can't live up to perfection. — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
It's important when you're in government that you're held to higher standards because you're actually making decisions that affect the public. — Rachel Reeves Copy Share Image
If we're going to have standards in schools, let's be honest and have standards. — Amy Klobuchar Copy Share Image
Of course my standards are out of date! That's why they're called standards. — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“The correct definition of the word standard is "a required or agreed-upon level of quality or attainment." If that is true, and the definition… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is… — Fannie Flagg Copy Share Image
Standards are different for all things, so the standard set by man is by no means the only 'certain' standard. If you mistake what… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
'Frankenstein' is a timeless classic. As science advances, it becomes more relevant, not less. Its fantasy moves closer to fact, its horrors closer to… — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
I think a lot of police procedurals are very conventional. With the stuff I'm doing, I'm trying to approach the institution of the police… — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
For something like 'Line of Duty' to work, it has to be both plausible and unexpected. — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
I like to stay away from writing about good versus evil. I think the world is more complicated. — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
In the modern workplace, sexism has adopted a more subtle persona; therefore, people can be accused of sexism where it's far harder to determine… — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
If you look at American medical fiction written by doctors, like 'The House of God' by Samuel Shem and 'The Blood of Strangers' by… — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
I'm interested in institutions, particularly in the way institutions close ranks. They have hierarchies and their own ethics. — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
It's important that the actor doesn't feel like they're working in a vacuum. If the actor is told, 'Oh, it's a secret; just play… — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
I'm always thinking about my work, always thinking about where it's taking me. — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
The footballer I've admired most in the last ten years is Zinedine Zidane... one of those rare individuals who had the skill but also… — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
'Line of Duty' is a social realist drama, so it's set in a world that has the recognisable features of the authentic world we… — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
You are senile old fool, and because of your impudence, I cannot fathom how you still live! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse,… — Anthony Zinni Copy Share Image
You basically have a group of four spies who are chosen for a mission they feel for the fact of how competent they are… — Matt LeBlanc Copy Share Image
All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Expecting accountability from the UN system was akin to expecting a blind dog to catch a flying Frisbee.” — Michael Soussan Copy Share Image
The problem that we have is the President himself- a President who prides himself on his own weakness and incompetence and whose love of… — Femi Fani-Kayode Copy Share Image
Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples that they… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
