#competent

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else. ↗

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#allowed #because #competent #consistently #else

I feel incompetent to perform duties... which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me. ↗

— Andrew Johnson

#duties #feel #i #i feel #incompetent

Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace. ↗

— Frederick W. Taylor

#competent #considerable #convince #devote #does

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. ↗

— Edith Sitwell

#i #i wish #incompetent #pianos #put

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

There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits. ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

#community #competent #contradiction #direct #habits

I once called the head of a network a liar. In hindsight, I should have called him an incompetent liar. ↗

— Steven Levitan

#head #him #hindsight #i #incompetent

Justice Ginsburg is a very competent justice, and it is a joy to have her on the court, but particularly for me it is a pleasure to have a second woman on the court. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#court #her #joy #justice #me

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there. ↗

— Maureen Reagan

#arrived #elect #equality #feel #i

The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly. ↗

— Harry Reasoner

#different #events #fly #helicopters #incompetent