Competence Quotes

Ordinary men wonder why those of only average intelligence so often rise to the highest levels of power, while highly intelligent people generally do not. They fail to understand that reaching the highest levels of power has nothing to do with admired attributes such as intelligence and competence. The predominant characteristic of those who rise to the highest levels of power is a total disregard for the consequences – including death – that will befall thousands, or hundreds of thousands, or millions of human beings if it is deemed necessary to attain his (or her) goals. Generally speaking, it is this total disregard for humanity that has distinguished ‘rulers’ throughout history.

Dave Champion

It is the curse of the competent―not to be called upon.

Robert Priest

I have rare moments of competence.

Peter V. Brett

It’s easier to donate a few thousands to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement. It’s simple to seek substitutes for competence—such easy substitutes: love, charm, kindness, charity. But there is no substitute for competence.

Ayn Rand

Biologists will teach us that the survival of the species depends on cooperation, not competition.

Robert Holden

. . to be exceptional in martial arts, you must possess the "4 C's" : Consistency, Commitment, Creativity and Competence

Soke Behzad Ahmadi

Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.

Peter F Drucker

It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an audience. You can't fake it in your own eyes. Your ego is your strictest judge. They run from it. They spend their lives running. It's easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement. It's simple to seek substitutes for competence--such easy substitutes: love, charm, kindness, charity. But there is no substitute for competence.

Ayn Rand

We pass judgements as to merits in areas we have no competence

Benson IV

Deep in my heart politeness impresses me more than competence.

Amit Kalantri

Ability does catches my attention, but its a politeness in the person that I remember.

Amit Kalantri

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

Never compete with your master, because that is disrespect to him! You are your only rival, you compete with yourself, go beyond yourself!

Mehmet Murat ildan

If we agree that the education, employment and retirement continuum is no longer a linear “cradle to grave” construct, then several tools for managing this reality are increasingly proving redundant. Job descriptions used for hiring are one such example. Hiring managers often write these as a reflection of their own experiences, ignoring the fact that we are entering an era where the emphasis should be less on ready competence and more on transferable skills.

Gyan Nagpal

Professional’ does not necessarily mean that the person so labelled is good or knows what they are doing. In many a case, it merely means that they do whatever that they are a professional at for a living, not as a hobby.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It was a myth you couldn't function on opiates: shooting up was one thing but for someone like me-jumping at pigeons beating from the sidewalk, afflicted with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder practically to the point of spasticity and cerebral palsy-pills were the key to being not only competent, but high-functioning.

Donna Tartt

So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.

Flannery O'Connor

Humility and competence are the keys to a successful life.

Clifford Cohen

The technique of tredding the success path is making a single step, and if you are kinda afraid to throw the second leg, hire divinity to pull you along.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Power of productivity is not in working but relaxing

Talees Rizvi

All too often people pretend to be professional. "Professionalism" is sometimes a facade for fraud. Be pro, but be real. Honesty and transparency combined with character, competence and real results is the key to being a true pro.

Richie Norton

Any work is always improvable, you cannot really finish the work, you can only abandon it out of tiredness or incompetence.

Amit Kalantri

She remembered Fiona saying something once, there was nothing more attractive than a competent man. At the time she'd been a young girl, without true understanding, but now she agreed.

Lily Blackwood

Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence.

Ron Suskind

They looked more like day laborers than seamen.

Erik Larson

Pride in office without competence is as much a sin as competence without confidence.

Peter Tremayne

Ladies and gentlemen, when you paint your lips, eyes, nails, hair, side-beards, or whatever, to look beautiful or handsome, don't forget your up stairs, if you don't go up there to put things in order, then, consider the former attributes null and void.

Michael Bassey Johnson

When all help is stopped, when your loved ones started doubting your competence, when failure seems almost confirmed, but no matter what, if you make one more attempt, that final step will fetch you the victory.

Amit Kalantri

I Love You! Three words that mean nothing if not followed through with actions. It seems to be more relevant in the terms of showing verses saying. Anyone can say it, because there are different kinds of love. But, few are willing to actually show it. Saying is one thing. Living proof is another.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Good luck belongs to those who know how and are not afraid." John Hay to President Theodore Roosevelt

John Taliaferro

When the competent men of the system are compelled to quit, the system will soon quit itself.

Amit Kalantri

Complements from your companion will do you no good, but if you get complements from your competitors it means you are really doing good.

Amit Kalantri

Let it be a small gain or big gain never do lesser than one's ability, let it be a pain or a pleasure never accept more than one's share.

Amit Kalantri

You have abundant dexterity and the power to do such wonderful things in you and it is only you who can bring out the marvelous works within to reality to the awesome amazement of all. You shall always think about them and they shall always be within you until you take steps to make them happen in reality. Awake and do something!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a portion of mankind, after nature has long since discharged them from external direction (naturaliter maiorennes), nevertheless remains under lifelong tutelage, and why it is so easy for others to set themselves up as their guardians. It is so easy not to be of age. If I have a book which understands for me, a pastor who has a conscience for me, a physician who decides my diet, and so forth, I need not trouble myself. I need not think, if I can only pay - others will easily undertake the irksome work for me.That the step to competence is held to be very dangerous by the far greater portion of mankind...

Immanuel Kant

The specialty in all life is expecting the exception, while ignorant of real acceptance, until unexpectedly you re-witness your own ignorance to 'be' the cause that awakens others. One does not do this yesterday, or today. You do this with expressing honesty everyday.

James Emlund

In leadership, skills may take you where character won't keep you.

Mike Ayers

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

Our competence comes from God's grace.

Lailah Gifty Akita

My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.

Thomas Hardy

Don’t let any situation intimidate you, defeat you, or conquer you. you are stronger and smarter than anything that challenges you.

Lolly Daskal

Don’t set your own goals by what other people make important.

Lolly Daskal

Focus on how far you have come in liferather than looking at the accomplishments of others.

Lolly Daskal

Self-assurance reassures others and reassures yourself.

Lolly Daskal

Greatness means setting out to make some difference somewhere to someone in someplace.

Lolly Daskal

Many people spend more time looking at their failures than focusing on their successes.

Lolly Daskal

Don’t blame others. it won’t make you a better person.

Lolly Daskal

Becoming a great leader doesn’t mean being perfect. it means living with your imperfections.

Lolly Daskal

Do not allow your inner doubts to keep you from achieving what you can do.

Lolly Daskal

When your intuition is strong, follow it.

Lolly Daskal

Intuition is a sense of knowing how to act decisively without needing to know why.

Lolly Daskal

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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