#competent

Truly competent Literary Detectives are as rare as truthful men, Mr. Tweed -- you can see her potential as clearly as I can. Frightened of someone stealing your thunder, perhaps? ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#funny #jealousy #truth #jealousy

Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of. ↗

— Russell Baker

#brilliant #coat #correspondent #dangerous #dozen

We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins. ↗

— Edward Bond

#competent #deserts #end #may #new

There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance. ↗

— Russell Baker

#because #business #comfortable #competent #concerned

One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the time, incompetent or crazy. ↗

— John Gardner

#devil #editors #exception #fight #incompetent

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#incompetent #incomprehensible #indifferent #into

If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#could #economists #get #humble #level

Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible. ↗

— Charley Reese

#efficient way #expensive #government #incompetent #inefficient

Whatever one thinks of President George W. Bush and his unilateralist crew, most of the people laughing at us do not think we are evil. What they think is that we are naive and incompetent. ↗

— Richard Reeves

#crew #evil #george #george w #his

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