#competence

The Republicans are running wild with our tax dollars and it's been a mistake to let this administration continue a policy of incompetence when it comes to Iraq. ↗

— Sherrod Brown

#been #comes #continue #dollars #incompetence

To address questions of scientific responsibility does not necessarily imply that one needs technical competence in a particular field (e.g. biology) to evaluate certain technical matters. ↗

— Serge Lang

#biology #certain #competence #does #evaluate

Kevyn, I'm promoting you from Tech Sergeant to Munitions Commander. I want you to take responsibility for all Company weapons. Munitions Commander? Why me? I don't know. Call it "suspicion of extreme competence" on my part. -Captain Tagon & Commander Kevyn Andreyasn ↗

— Howard Tayler

#humour #military #promotion #sci-fi #weapons

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals,' the ones who somehow know how to teach. ↗

— Peter Drucker

#average #average person #capable #competence #developed

In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption. ↗

— Anthony Zinni

#corruption #i #incompetence #iraq #iraq war

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

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

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

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

Obviously somebody had been appallingly incompetent and he hoped to God it wasn't him. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#incompetence #mr-prosser #humor