Quotes About Competence

Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow.

Arrogant people habitually overestimated their own abilities and underestimated everyone else's.

A job you can learn in a single day is not skilled work.

Don't make a career out of underestimating me." — Claire de Haven

One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, cooperation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs.... He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight.

If you need a gun to do it with, you aren't doing it right." Sheriff Bud Smith.

There is no such thing as a frigid woman, there are only incompetent men.

At the end of a century of grand revolutionary romanticism; frightful sacrifices for the sake of paradises and heavens on earth and the withering away of the state; passionate dreams of Utopias and wonderlands and perfect cities; attempts at communes and commonwealths, at co-operatives and kibbutzes and kolkhozes – after all this, would any of us have believed that most people in the world would settle gratefully for a little honesty, a little competence in government?

For she is remembering Paul's saying: There is no such thing as a frigid woman, there are only incompetent men.

Versatility is one of the few human traits which are universally intolerable. You may be good at Greek and good at painting and be popular. You may be good at Greek and good at sport, and be wildly popular. But try all three and you're a mountebank. Nothing arouses suspicion quicker than genuine, all-round proficiency." Kate

A long time afterwards, she was to remember what an excellent chess-player Francis Crawford was.

I asked,' Sybilla said, 'because I have seen him like this before … once; when he elected to take everyone else's business in hand and return it to them correctly aligned, like an artist with a child's drawing.

Versatility is one of the few human traits which are universally intolerable. You may be good at Greek and good at painting and be popular. You may be good at Greek and good at sport, and be wildly popular. But try all three and you're a mountebank. Nothing arouses suspicion quicker than genuine, all-round proficiency.

Her ripostes, on the whole, had been more successful than his. Or perhaps she, too, was feeling like this.

Once lay down the rule that the job comes first and you throw that job open to every individual, man or woman, fat or thin, tall or short, ugly or beautiful, who is able to do that job better than the rest of the world.

Experience has taught me, said Peter (...) that no situation finds Bunter unprepared. That he should have procured The Times this morning by the simple expedient of asking the milkman to request the postmistress to telephone to Broxford and have it handed to the 'bus-conductor to be dropped at the post-office and brought up by the little girl who delivers the telegrams is a trifling example of his resourceful energy.

To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.

To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

It is a well-known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... Anyone who is capable of getting themselves into a position of power should on no account be allowed to do the job

Halka hükmemeyi en çok isteyenler, bu iÅŸi yapmaya en az uygun olanlard?r.

Everything he did, he did well, and as a result he was an accomplished asshole indeed.

Rest assured," said Hercule Poirot. "I am the best!

No woman respects a man when he's doing a thing thoroughly badly.

Katherine Grey was born with the power of managing old ladies, dogs, and small boys, and she did it without any apparent sense of strain.