Quotes About Competence

Most people dont buy talent; they buy results.

My life is painfully full of learning experiences where I've had to be an expert at short notice,

The definition of elitist, as I understand it, is that those who are superior should hold power. I'm a reasonable person. Show me humans who are as competent or intelligent as dragons, and I'll bring them into government as well.

I always like to be in the presence of people who are good at and love their jobs, Irrespective of their jobs.

Kenntnis der Mittel ohne eine eigentliche Anwendung, ja ohne Gabe und Willen, sie anzuwenden, ist, was man jetzt gemeiniglich Gelehrsamkeit nennt.

Success is what you do with your ability. It's how you use your talent.

Winning is the science of being totally prepared.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

The technocrats saw expertise as the only measure of a person.

The technocracy has the upper hand against the white working class, although it is a tenuous hand, as can be seen by the election of Donald Trump. But this is merely the opening confrontation. Pressure on the technocracy will build. America is heading toward an institutional crisis in which the competence of the technocracy and the institutions of the federal government will be questioned.

It must be so nice to have someone like him watching your back. Someone competent. Decisive. Someone who has his shit together. Too bad he is an enemy.

Of what value after all is a power which one could never use, or at any rate did not know how to use?

La violence est le dernier refuge de l'incompétence.

An incompetent traitor is no danger. It is rather the capable men who must be watched.

No one is so modest as not to believe himself a competent amateur sleuth...

When one begins by expressing lack of competence in a given field, it usually implies that a flat opinion in that field will follow almost immediately

So, in a Civil Service where smooth and sociable performance was more useful than an individualistic competence, Enderby went up the scale quickly, and was at the Commissioner level when Baley himself was nothing more than a C-5.

No man of real competence could have avoided a dash of uncertainty at a job like that.

La violencia es el último recurso del incopetente

I hope I am not of subnormal intelligence

A cada uno le llega el momento de alcanzar su nivel de incompetencia.

I know how to zone myself in and just play the game.

It is all well and good talking about it, but until you get tested and come out of your comfort zone a bit, you don't see how you really are as a player.

I want to be active. I want to be able to show everything I can do. I can blitz. I can cover. I can play zone and play man. I can do it all.