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#competence

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #competence




I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.


Billy Joel


#am #competent #extraordinary #i #i am

My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.


Thomas Hardy


#competence #creation #creativity #passion #skill-technique

A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.


Marlene Dietrich


#could #delegate #dilemma #duties #either

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.


Theodore Roosevelt


#competence #job-doing #productivity #business

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

The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself.


Orrin Woodward


#life






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