Quotes About Competence

Winning can be defined as the science of being totally prepared.

We only do well the things we like doing.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtures are of no avail.

He who can does. He who can't, teaches.

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

Only an incompetent mind is content to express itself incompetently.

Everybody undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has the aptitude for it or not.

I was also afraid that I wouldn't be good enough to compete in that arena.

a leader should never delegate that which he had not done before and done well.

Roarke) Those who can't, teach. Isn't there some saying along those lines? (Eve) She gave him a blank look. If you can't do something, how the hell can you teach somebody else to do it?

If he had been one of Xcor's males, the Brother might well have had to be killed so that Xcor could retain his prime position: It was a basic tenent of leadership that one eliminated those who presented a potential challenge to one's position ... although it wasn't as if his band were incompetents—after all, one had to eliminate the weak as well. The Bloodletter had taught him that and so much more.

After all, a leader should never delegate that which he had not done before and done well.

Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable. Lovable means I feel people want to be with me. They invite me to parties; they affirm I have the qualities necessary to be included. Feeling capable is knowing that I can produce a result. It's knowing I can handle anything that life hands me.

I want people to see me as a two-way player. A defensive player and an offensive player.

I don't like to get involved in things that I am not familiar with. I'm kind of a hands-on type of person.

Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.

I'll tell you one thing, in what I do for a living, there's no substitute for experience. I don't care how much natural talent you may have... In the type of show I do, you can depend on surprises.

As an actress, I should be able to do all types of roles.

I don't like to show off; if I have to save a ball in an ugly way, fine.

In the cut-throat political system we have in the UK, you have to be prepared to put your head above the parapet and be confident in your ability to get the job done.

You basically have a group of four spies who are chosen for a mission they feel for the fact of how competent they are and how their expertise and they're the right one for the job. But ultimately they find out they've been actually chosen for their incompetence.

But ultimately, at the end of the day, people want leaders who they respect and who they believe in and who can get things done.

Ultimately, it's your talent that counts.

The one thing that all umpires have is pride, and if you don't have pride, you lose that edge.