Quotes About Incompetence

A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective.

There are on occasions, as we know, when resources are abundant, but they are expended so incompetently that the advantage is nullified.

I just don't think our best are in politics. I think these guys are inept.

For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane.

There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.

Es que estos cerdos del gobierno no son capaces de asfaltar una carretera tan esencial, que corta por en medio mi vida?

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

Cope cupped his hand to his ear. "Listen, Frank. Hear it?" His voice was a whisper. "That's the sound of your incompetence being made obvious to the masses. Not just your incompetence, but your suicidal stupidity at going after your superior when the facts do not back you up." "I

Despite all the hoopla - despite all the umpa - after 5 years of UDP mismanagement, corruption, and incompetence, we have sunk deeper into debt of $2.4 billion: some $200 million deeper in debt.

Arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence. Not a pretty cocktail of personality traits in the best of situations. No sirree. Not a pretty cocktail in an office-mate and not a pretty cocktail in a head of state. In fact, in a leader, it's a lethal cocktail.

I have no idea what I'm doing. I feel like I'm just kind of hanging on right now. I feel like a kid out of control and incredibly inept." The man nodded again. "Yes, you feel like there's no holes in your bowling ball. It feels big and clumsy and awkward and you can't get a good grip on it. You can't control it.

She did what is the most dangerous thing anyone can do in politics; she discoursed without having the most remote acquaintance with the subject; she amateurishly thrust her fingers into every pie, interfering in matters of the utmost moment; she used her overwhelming influence with the King exclusively on behalf of her favorites.

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Falling out of a plane was a potentially life-threatening situation where I was an incompetent passenger with no chance of saving myself if I had to. Those were the elements of my ultimate nightmare, and in retrospect I realized I could never have liked it.

It takes skill to sing bad and dance bad, because there's a certain amount of unawareness that people have when they can't sing and they can't dance, so I have to say that it is a challenge!

I'm no good at really anything that involves motor skills.

I am terrible at making food. I love eating, but I can't make anything.

When they aren't being incompetent, city officials like to relax with a little corruption.

Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments." This is the famous study by David Dunning and Justin Kruger of Cornell University in New York mentioned a few chapters ago that launched the new science of what we might call Stupidology. It

Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments.

He agreed with Laughlin that sterilization was necessary in society "to prevent our being swamped with incompetence." Then he gave his solution: "It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes.

They were, in short, dangerously unprepared for the rigors ahead, and they demonstrated their incompetence in the most dramatic possible way: by dying in droves. Six

That boy's so dumb he couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the directions were on the bottom.