Competence Quotes

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

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

Soke Behzad Ahmadi

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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