Quotes About Competence

She could be attractive when she wanted to be but life had taught her that efficiency and competence often paid better results and avoided painful complications.

She took disaster as it should be taken, dealing with it competently and thereby reducing it almost to insignificance.

It is not for me to run here and there, doing amateurishly the things that for a small sum someone else can do with professional skill.

Who are you? You don't belong to the police?" "I am better than the police," said Poirot. He said it without conscious arrogance. It was, to him, a simple statement of fact.

The less their ability, the more their conceit.

But I often wonder what would have happened if I had actually been drafted. I had failed military training in middle school, and I had no certificate of officer's competence. There would have been no way for me to stay afloat in the Army. On top of that, if I had ever run into that Army officer who had been attached to Keika Middle School, it would surely have been the end for me. Even thinking about it now makes me shudder.

Never underestimate a droid

Know what you are talking about.

Oh, I'm not perfect – not by a long stretch. I just make the rest of you look bad.

He had a contract, and he was confident in the capabilities of his vessel.

I noticed that this defense attorney is a very, very intelligent man, and he's very cool and he's very knowledgeable, and I think that personally I'd like to have an attorney like him.

My philosophy has always been to do the job I do to the very best of my ability and to be myself within it.

Yes, I was really good in physics and in math.

I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.

I obviously think I should always be picked. Every player thinks he's good enough to be playing every week.

It ain't the picture and it ain't the camera - it's the operator.

I liked flying, when I got into it, loved it. And I found I was very good at it. I'm not modest about the fact that I was a good pilot.

I think women make better pilots.

When you're asked to fly a 747 you better at least be able to fly a Piper cub.

When you have your best stuff, it's a lot easier to pitch.

I need to keep quiet and do my talking on the pitch.

If a footballer goes on the pitch with the right mentality, he will perform well.

I won't date a guy who doesn't own a toolbox. I'm not saying you need to be able to knock down a wall or build a house or anything like that. But I've been out with a couple of guys who didn't own toolboxes, and they couldn't even change a light bulb.

Make sure you're on my level if you think you wanna go toe-to-toe with me 'cause you cannot. Let's make that very clear.