#competent

Everything about it worked, and I don't mean just the movie, but in our experience, we realized there's also a component of luck involved in this business. We had absolutely the most competent people in the studio working on the release and ad campaign. ↗

— David Zucker

#absolutely #ad #ad campaign #also #business

What American people and what the markets want is a fair and level playing-field, where the rules are clearly elucidated, where the referees are competent, and where we know that the game is not rigged. ↗

— James Chanos

#american people #clearly #competent #elucidated #fair

If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom. ↗

— Bill Wyman

#arrangements #band #competent #creative #freedom

Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow. ↗

— David Attenborough

#among #competent #creature #extraordinarily #follow

But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had. ↗

— Joe Biden

#authority #competent #election #had #how

The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#avoids #aware #clever #competent #full

It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star. ↗

— Arthur Eddington

#distant #future #hope #judgment #shall

I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn't fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers. ↗

— Luke Ford

#fire #gut #had #i #incompetent

Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about. ↗

— Barney Frank

#allow #basis #because #competent #decide

I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary. ↗

— Billy Joel

#competent #consider #extraordinary #i #i do