Incompetence Quote by Masha Gessen Download Open image “Where incompetence is prized, it is ever-present.” — Masha Gessen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Incompetence Prized Where
The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself. — Orrin Woodward Copy Share Image
Incompetence is certainty in the absence of expertise. Overconfidence is certainty in the presence of expertise. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Everything that is incomprehensible does not, however, cease to exist. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“I know the word "incompetent" from my father. He uses it when there's something political on TV, or when he and Uncle Miki are… — Saša Stanišić Copy Share Image
Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself. — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
There's this American pretense, which is the pretense of the journalist with the view from nowhere - which has somehow morphed into the journalist… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Pussy Riot have certainly changed some people's assumptions about the role of political art and the relationship between the intelligentsia and the church. That's… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Trump, like Putin, has a demonstrably thin skin and short temper when it comes to being criticized by journalists. — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
You risk everything if you so much as join a legal protest demonstration in Russia. It raises the stakes. — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Donald Trump creates word salads. And that is awful to language, because we try to parse out what he's saying and try to find… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
It is the first time since 1993 that Russians have come out into the streets without an explicit permission from the government to do… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
I think Donald Trump was brought to power by Americans. They voted for him. — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
In the 1990s, there was a lot of reform, and there was a lot of forward movement on a lot of fronts in Russia.… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Poverty and scarcity are actually very good for totalitarian societies. They maintain that sense of mobilization that's essential for totalitarian societies. — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
I think that Putin's strategy has been throwing a lot of money, fairly haphazardly, at a lot of projects aimed at disrupting Western relations… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Both Trump and Putin use language primarily to communicate not facts or opinions but power: it's not what the words mean that matters but… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
I worked both as a Russian journalist and an American journalist and ran a bunch of magazines in Moscow over the course of about… — Masha Gessen 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
Obviously somebody had been appallingly incompetent and he hoped to God it wasn't him. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
