Ability Quote by L. Ron Hubbard

Being competent means the ability to control and operate the things in the environment and the environment itself.

— L. Ron Hubbard

“A Sentient Incompetent employee is preferable to one who is Insentient Competent”

— Sudhir Warier

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

When focusing only on one's credentials one boasts his own incompetence in his capacity for discernment of the individual.

— Criss Jami

True competence is based on one’s own ability to observe.

— L. Ron Hubbard

Often the desire to appear competent impedes our ability to become competent, because we more anxious to display our knowledge than to learn what…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

A person is either the effect of his environment or is able to have an effect upon his environment.

— L. Ron Hubbard

Incompetence is certainty in the absence of expertise. Overconfidence is certainty in the presence of expertise.

— Malcolm Gladwell

The individual who is best prepared for any occupation is the one able to adapt himself to any situation.

— John Mortimer Smith

One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“The more skill it takes to accomplish a task, the more difficult it is to comprehend the knowledge needed to deal with it, the…

— Luigina Sgarro

It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or…

— Robert Shea