#qualifications

...the qualifications that I have to speak on world affairs are exactly the same ones Henry Kissinger has, and Walt Rostow has, or anybody in the Political Science Department, professional historians—none, none that you don't have. The only difference is, I don't pretend to have qualifications, nor do I pretend that qualifications are needed. I mean, if somebody were to ask me to give a talk on quantum physics, I'd refuse—because I don't understand enough. But world affairs are trivial: there's nothing in the social sciences or history or whatever that is beyond the intellectual capacities of an ordinary fifteen-year-old. You have to do a little work, you have to do some reading, you have to be able to think but there's nothing deep—if there are any theories around that require some special kind of training to understand, then they've been kept a carefully guarded secret. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#qualifications #world-affairs #science

I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#greatest #i #impossible #impudence #impudent

It is great to add some glamour to the food industry, like television shows have done for the food world and inspiring people to work in the industry. The flip side of that is unfortunately people think that after they get their qualifications, they get their invitation to compete on 'Top Chef.' ↗

— Curtis Stone

#after #chef #compete #done #flip

I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but to join the Navy, having left school at 13. ↗

— Sean Connery

#because #had #having #i #join

They say I do not have the qualifications to be president, that I do not have education. Well, I would never divide the Liberian people. ↗

— George Weah

#education #i #i do #never #people

We respect the role of the Senate. We respect the authority of the Senate to look at the qualifications of Judge Roberts, and at the end of the day I'm optimistic that if given a fair hearing and a fair opportunity, that he will be confirmed. ↗

— Alberto Gonzales

#confirmed #day #end #end of the day #fair

Christ has not only ordained that there shall be such officers in his Church - he has not only specified their duties and prerogatives - but he gives the requisite qualifications, and calls those thus qualified, and by that call gives them their official authority. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#call #calls #christ #church #duties

We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended. ↗

— Brit Hume

#easily #exquisitely #feelings #greatest #greatest things

The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how our messages will be received. ↗

— John le Carre

#always #cleanly #communicate #concern #directly

People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#detain #got #haven #only #people