Competent Quote by John Edensor Littlewood Download Open image “The infinitely competent can be uncreative.” — John Edensor Littlewood ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Competent Funny Inspirational Love Math Mathematical Mathematics
It is also true that the less competent a person is in a given domain, the more he will tend to overestimate his abilities.… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
A human being feels able and competent only so long as he is permitted to contribute as much as or more than he has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No man is competent unless he can stalk alone and armed in the wilderness. — Townsend Whelen Copy Share Image
When you appoint someone, you appoint somebody because of their character, their convictions, their abilities. And not because you have a belief, a confidence,… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
He who knows how to teach a child is not competent for the oversight of a child's education unless he also knows how to… — Henry Clay Trumbull Copy Share Image
In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers. — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad. — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
The first test of potential in mathematics is whether you can get anything out of geometry. — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
A precisian professor had the habit of saying: "... quartic polynomial ax^4+bx^3+cx^2+dx+e , where e need not be the base of the natural logarithms." — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
I recall once saying that when I had given the same lecture several times I couldn't help feeling that they really ought to know… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
The theory of numbers is particularly liable to the accusation that some of its problems are the wrong sort of questions to ask. I… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
The higher mental activities are pretty tough and resilient, but it is a devastating experience if the drive does stop. Some people lose it… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
The referee said it was not acceptable, but the Press considered they could not refuse to publish a book by a professor of the… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
I constantly meet people who are doubtful, generally without due reason, about their potential capacity [as mathematicians]. The first test is whether you got… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
I read in the proof sheets of Hardy on Ramanujan: "As someone said, each of the positive integers was one of his personal friends."… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
The surprising thing about this paper is that a man who could write it would. — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
Almost everywhere we find . . . the use of various coercive measures, to rid ourselves as quickly as possible of the child withinus--i.e.,… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
“In your goals to go the extra mile, prepare to pay an extra cost. Excellence is to be exceptional, surpassing, more competent and a… — Israelmore Ayivor 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
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 Copy Share Image
There's always, I guess, a philosophy that if you come in, you want to change all the parts, you want to change everything over.… — Pat Gillick Copy Share Image
If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these… — Bill Wyman Copy Share Image
I remember when President Bush, George W. Bush, came into office, he focused on No Child Left Behind, and with - and before very… — Lamar Alexander Copy Share Image
I have so many positive points. I am not corrupt, I am competent. — Tamilisai Soundararajan Copy Share Image
We could encourage the best qualities of youthfulness - curiosity, adventure, resilience, the capacity for surprising insight simply by being more flexible about time,… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
As part of our ongoing series of reports on the environment, 'America Goes Green,' we take on the question that can make otherwise competent… — Brian Williams Copy Share Image
As for mathematicians themselves: don't expect too much help. Most of them are too far removed in their ivory towers to take up such… — Apostolos Doxiadis Copy Share Image
But medicine has long had all its means to hand, and has discovered both a principle and a method, through which the discoveries made… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
