Quotes About Competence

Whether an MP is a woman or a man, it's about the qualities of the individual in doing that job.

Any idiot can get an airplane off the ground, but an aviator earns his keep by bringing it back anytime, anywhere, under any circumstances that man and God can dream up.

The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.

A successful surgeon should be a man who, when asked to name the three best surgeons in the world, would have difficulty deciding on the other two.

An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.

Only ... from personal experience [can a man] take the necessary measures without a preliminary process of trial and error.

I expect it is very possible that I would make as good a President as a great many men who are talked of for that position.

I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.

A man should be what he can do.

A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.

Socialists believe otherwise - a man is not competent enough to make decision should he use seatbelt, should he buy insurance, and the same man is competent enough to elect president and government.

Any man who is only an economist is unlikely to be a good one.

Men aren't men until they can get to Sears by themselves.

A real man don't call the plumbers. If he gonna call himself a man, he needs to know how to fix it, on the spot

The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters.

All the men on my staff can type.

A man's college and university degrees mean nothing to me until I see what he is able to do with them.

An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular competence.

Unless you are as smart as Johann Karl Friedrich Gauss, savvy as a half-blind Calcutta bootblack, tough as General William Tecumseh Sherman, rich as the Queen of England, emotionally resilient as a Red Sox fan, and as generally able to take care of yourself as the average nuclear missile submarine commander, you should never have been allowed near this document.

Men wanted to be strong. One way to be strong was to be knowledgeable. In so many areas, it was not possible to be knowledgeable without getting a Ph.D. and doing a postdoc. Guns and hunting provided an out for men who wanted to be know-it-alls but who couldn't afford to spend the first three decades of their lives getting up to speed on quantum mechanics or oncology.

Just because the Panjandrums know how to run cheeseburg stands, they think they know how to run a Convox.

We're all nerds now. We might as well get good at it.

serious and competent people need to get things done in the real world, all considerations of tradition and protocol fly out the window.

The writer who knows what he's doing isn't doing very much.