#competence

But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with. ↗

— John Cleese

#acting #competence #faking #good #then

I'm not a great deductive thinker, but I will admit to having competence in a very wide range of things - not being afraid to try to write about baseball, choral music and dinosaurs in the same week and see connections among them. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

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Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence. ↗

— Tarja Halonen

#among #competence #inequality #itself #other

You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#creativity #fake #sexual #you

To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education. ↗

— John Dickey

#competence #corresponding #create #creating #direction

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

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

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#ascribe #explained #incompetence #malice #never

Man cannot live by incompetence alone. ↗

— Charlotte Whitton

#cannot #incompetence #live #man