Quotes About Competence

She had always known her own mind and been competent at everything she did. And he had always taken great pride in her—when she'd been the feather in his cap, the envy of his colleagues, a woman who, despite the elevated circumstances into which she had been born, had found in him everything she needed. Except that had never been true, had it? She'd always needed more. And now she had it.

We will probably have the nagging feeling that we are not doing things right. This is good because confronting our negative feelings and our fear of incompetence can help us begin analysis.

Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.

Intelligence is quickness to learn. Ability is the skill to apply what is learned. Competence is the ability and the desire to apply what is learned. Desire is the attitude that makes a skillful person competent. Many skillful people are incompetent. Ability without the right attitude is wasted.

Winners do not do right things, they do things right !

It is not enough to be a good player... you must also play well

Play to your strength; then you are always strong.

Arrigo Sacchi, a terrible player turned great manager of Milan, phrased it, "You don't need to have been a horse to be a jockey.

Are you really as good as they say?" "No," she said calmly. "We're better.

Sometimes amateurs believe they are professionals, but professionals never believe they are amateurs.

all of whom radiated level-headed competence, physical fitness and pride in appearance, and lived on a different planet from the one defined by general weak tittering, the oxygen levels of which I was more used to.

Her hair was done, her lips touched up. A look of competence, decision.

It is astonishing with how little reading a doctor can practice medicine, but is not astonishing how badly he may do it.

I love free trade, but we need great leadership to have real free trade. And we don't have good leadership. We have leadership that doesn't know what it's doing.

She shook her head. 'We may be a small town, Detective Jackson, but we can walk and chew gum at the same time.

These tests, though, were making her feel like a moron.

Of course I could drive. Idiots and lunatics drove cars, why not the brilliant Marguerite Johnson?

I have no place in my life for someone who is sure he can do everything.

We need to start evaluating people based on their abilities and not on their sex or other congenital characteristics.

When [...] you're putting out your best, it's hard to hide.

Do not let anyone else run your business, unless (1) you can supervise his performance with adequate care and comprehension or (2) you have unusually strong reasons for placing implicit confidence in his integrity and ability.

I paid him, Lawford said indignantly. If you want a job done properly, Sharpe said, you do it yourself. Hell!

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

How pleasant a world would be in which no man was allowed to operate on the Stock Exchange unless he could pass and examination in economics and Greek poetry, and in which politicians were obliged to have a competent knowledge of history and modern novels.