Quotes About Competence

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

I know of no other woman who could learn to do so many things after 50 and to do them so well as you have.

Most valuable art in our time has been experienced by audiences as a move into silence (or unintelligibility or invisibility or inaudibility); a dismantling of the artist's competence, his responsible sense of vocation—and therefore as an aggression against them. Modern

My one aim was to do a thing well and to excel if possible.

If you put A players on a team with C players, your A players are going to play down. It rarely works the other way, where the C players play up.

can I help it if I'm a better assassin than I am a housewife?

pero aun así pude asistir al mejor espectáculo del mundo: una persona haciendo bien su oficio.

My arithmetic is fine, thank you," Nicole snapped. Her arithmetic from what she'd seen was a damn sight better than that of any local without a counting board in front of him. The Romans, naturally enough, used and thought in terms of Roman numerals, and Roman numerals were to arithmetic what cruel and unusual punishment was to jurisprudence.

Once you have mastered a technique, you barely have to look at a recipe again

And so Harry became proficient in the task of cleaning up vomit.

she could not bear to let someone else perform a task when she could do it better herself.

You gave me a look as if to say, 'I know exactly what I'm doing.

They did not want stupid. They wanted you.

Individuals usually do a better job than the government.

The students I have come in contact with at Harvard are highly competent individuals who prefer to be challenged and respond well to encouragement.

The key ingredient is talent - you've got to have talent. If you look at the regular season, they've got the best record in the entire league, so they've got the talent.

As far as I can tell, the baseball teams are run pretty darn well. I'm sure there's some better and worse, but I don't ever see a baseball team anymore and go, 'They're absolutely insane.'

When you're out there and playing, things are going fast. You've just got to trust your instincts and what got you there.

I despise people who revel in the ignorance of not being able to play their instrument.

With the second record there's a need to show that we weren't chancers, that we could play our instruments.

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.

The little Napoleons in UMNO try to keep out people who are more intelligent than themselves.

I am much more intelligent than you think.

I believe I am more intelligent than the average person.