Quotes About Incompetence

the world must not be run by men who are smiling, charming, incompetent reflections of the nincompoop masses. There are those of us who believe that the affairs of the world can be conducted peacefully and efficiently only by authorities who are not experts alone but who are also men of decisiveness.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

ultracrepidarianism, which means "the habit of giving opinions and advice on matters outside of one's knowledge or competence.

People who lack vision almost always lack passion. Incompetent leaders are ineffective and they often stay that way.

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

If you saw me trying to do laundry or something, well, I'm not really equipped to do anything else.

I was a pretty terrible lawyer. A really, really terrible lawyer.

Most industrial accidents are caused by human error: estimates range between 75 and 95 percent. How is it that so many people are so incompetent? Answer: They aren't. It's a design problem.

Vicky cost the taxpayers sixty-five million dollars, and she couldn't predict the time an hour from now. I

never attribute to malice that which could be explained by stupidity.

If someone is hostile in the delivery of their feedback, remember that it is an expression of their level of fear, not your level of incompetence or unlovability.

The boy is so stupid; to count to twenty-one he'd have to drop his pants.

A man's deepest fear is that he is not good enough or that he is incompetent. He compensates for this fear by focusing on increasing his power and competence. Success, achievement, and efficiency are foremost in his life ... A man appears most uncaring when he is afraid.

Any contractor who would construct a flat-roofed, two-storey building in Northern New Hampshire was enough of a moron to not know how many assholes a human being had.

Thinking, one could say, is something we do only when we are no good at an activity.

Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence.

Seeming failure is not of the law of satyagrahabut of incompetence of the satyagrahi by whatever cause induced.

The incompetent quickly throws himself into another impressive enterprise in order to escape his responsibility from previous disaster.

Secrecy breeds incompetence because where there is failure, failure is kept secret.

it's customary in the empire to grant positions of high office to people who know little about their subject; in my case the custom is being maintained to the letter.

Moeller also immediately discounted insults about competence, as the incompetent never question their competence about anything.

Controversy is a last resort for the talentless.

A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.

the superficial charm, the servile chatter that makes a favorable impression on a visitor, but that often cloaks an ineducable incompetence.