Quotes About Competence

I think I am good in the department of body language and fighting, and stuff like that. It's just natural to me, maybe because I love sports.

Because I'm what happens when luck meets skill," Seth said, "and they get into a serious relationship.

general competence is on the fucking decline.

As you begin to see yourself and think about yourself as more competent and confident, your behavior becomes more focused and effective

Only undertake what you can do in an excellent fashion. There are no prizes for average performance.

The good news is that the faster you move, the more energy you have. The faster you move, the more you get done and the more effective you feel. The faster you move, the more you learn. The faster you move, the more competent and capable you become at anything you try— be it homework, music, sports, or anything else you put your mind to. The faster you work and the more you get done, the higher will be your levels of self-esteem, self-respect, and personal pride.

Practica la «regla del setenta por ciento». Si alguien más puede hacer el trabajo un setenta por ciento tan bien como tú, delega la tarea a esa persona.

11. Upgrade your key skills: The more knowledgeable and skilled you become at your key tasks, the faster you start them and the sooner you get them done. Determine exactly what it is that you are very good at doing, or could be very good at, and throw your whole heart into doing those specific things very, very well.

Goals give you that sense of meaning and purpose, a clear sense of direction. As you move toward your goals you feel happier and stronger. You feel more energized and effective. You feel more competent and confident in yourself and your abilities. Every step you take toward your goals increases your belief that you can set and achieve even bigger goals in the future.

Second, take every course and seminar available on the key skills that can help you. Attend the conventions and business meetings of your profession or occupation. Go to the sessions and workshops. Sit up front and take notes. Purchase the audio recordings of the programs. Dedicate yourself to becoming one of the most knowledgeable and competent people in your field. Third

Act with purpose, courage, confidence, competence and intelligence until these qualities 'lock in' to your subconscious mind.

The radical bloc, demanding the kind of warfare which only such men could provide, was actually making it harder for the administration to find these men and use them: for it was providing an ideological qualification for purely professional jobs, and instead of inquiring about men's competence it was asking about their loyalty. The

To understand means to be capable of doing.'(Goethè)

That does not mean he is smarter than I am. I mean, can he draw a cat ?

When someone reaches middle age, people he knows begin to get put in charge of things, and knowing what he knows about the people who are being put in charge of things scares the hell out of him.

All of us long for a competent, uncorrupt, charismtatic leader. We will leap at the opportunity to support, to believe, to feel good.

through lowered educational standards, declining intellectual competence, diminished zest for substantive debate, and social sanctions against skepticism, our liberties can be slowly eroded and our rights subverted.

Natural selection has served as a kind of intellectual sieve, producing brains and intelligences increasingly competent to deal with the laws of nature.

She was reasonably sure her remarks were not entirely foolish, and did not wish to be ignored, much less ignored and patronized alternately. Part of it—but only a part—she knew was due to the softness of her voice. So she developed a physics voice, a professional voice: clear, competent, and many decibels above conversational. With such a voice it was important to be right. She had to pick her moments

Vigorous criticism is more constructive in science than in some other areas of human endeavor because in science there are adequate standards of validity that can be agreed upon by competent practitioners the world over. The objective of such criticism is not to suppress but rather to encourage the advance of new ideas: those that survive a firm skeptical scrutiny have a fighting chance of being right, or at least useful.

There were many women in the Soviet scientific community, proportionately more so than in the United States. But they tended to occupy menial middle-level positions, and male Soviet scientists, like their American counterparts, were puzzled about a pretty woman with evident scientific competence who forcefully expressed her views.

If women were as good as men they'd be a lot better!

Every organization needs at least one person who knows what's going on, and why it's happening, and who's doing it.

Our skills, you will find, could be our jailers.