#compete

On the field I'm trying to play for the glory of God but then also I'm trying to give everything I have and win and compete. And so I think more than just winning or losing, I think He cares about where our hearts are when we're playing. ↗

— Tim Tebow

#also #cares #compete #everything #field

It happens; incompetence is rewarded more often than not. ↗

— Jeff Lindsay

#dreams

Since most parents are reluctant to talk about sex, schools have tried to fill the gap. In America, when we decide to ignore a subject, our favorite form of denial is to teach it incompetently. Familiarity without true understanding is not only the basis of our families but of our educational system as well. ↗

— Bob Smith

#incompetence #sex-education #education

Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence. ↗

— Ron Suskind

#confidence #marketing #professionalism #education

Management cares about only one thing. Paperwork. They will forgive almost anything else - cost overruns, gross incompetence, criminal indictments - as long as the paperwork's filled out properly. And in on time. ↗

— Connie Willis

#management #paperwork #forgiveness

Having good intentions isn’t enough when actions fail; you also need some bad intentions so that you look competent. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #intentions #funny

It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an audience. You can't fake it in your own eyes. Your ego is your strictest judge. They run from it. They spend their lives running. It's easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement. It's simple to seek substitutes for competence--such easy substitutes: love, charm, kindness, charity. But there is no substitute for competence. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#competence #nobility #self-respect #virtue #love

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#already #become #competencies #daily #daily life

That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence, they must receive competent assurances concerning the integrity, fidelity, and constancy each of other. ↗

— Isaac Barrow

#another #competent #concerning #confidence #considerable

Because I tried to everything possible to become the best player in the world? Do I believe steroids and growth hormones helped me achieve that? Yes. Were there a lot of other players doing it that I had to compete against? Yes. ↗

— Jose Canseco

#against #because #become #believe #best