Quotes About Competence

Ca s? slujeÅŸti cu competen?? legea se cere s-o fi înc?lcat.

sá»± h?c h?i không ch? bao g?m hi?u bi?t Ä'i?u th?y ph?i hay có th? làm, mà còn bao g?m c? sá»± hi?u bi?t Ä'i?u th?y s? có kh? n?ng làm nhÆ°ng có l? không nên.

Metaphors can be read according to multiple interpretations; yet these interpretations can be more or less legitimated on the grounds of an underlying encyclopedic competence.

You mustn't fool yourself with the idea that you could hire experts to attend to things; for how could you know that a man was an expert, unless you knew as much as he did? Some day your foreman might drop dead, or some other fellow would buy him away from you, and then where would you be? Be your own expert, said Dad!

But I do sometimes wonder whether the technology has de-skilled us as detectives.

in a group that she was convinced were all better than her

If you're going to be an expert in something, then you need to be an expert in all aspects of it. From what makes it work to what makes it desirable to what makes it flawed.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

Freedom and ability can be seen to be somewhat synonymous.

To by?a sprawa ?ycia i ?mierci, a ona jest osob? kompetentn?. Nie jakim? mazgajem, nie dzieciakiem, ale osob? kompetentn?.

Let us not overstrain our abilities, or we shall do nothing with grace. A clown, whatever he may do, will never pass for a gentleman.

We may appear great in an employment below our merit; but we often appear little in an employment that is too great for us.

I hate amateurs. I hate unprofessional people. There are enough people who can do jobs decently that there's no reason that people who cannot do them decently [should] pretend to be great at it.

I'm boasting of my...skills, and I would prefer to do it without interruption.

I've practiced "alone" a lot, and I'm good at it.

You can't teach somebody to do something if you don't even know how to do it yourself.

He didn't even know how to talk about it. He had practiced not talking about the things he knew until no man could be called his equal.

But when a person has done the right thing, we cannot then say that he knew how to do the wrong thing, or that he was competent to make mistakes.

For making mistakes is not an exercise of competence, nor is the commission of slips an exercise of knowledge how; it is a failure to exercise knowledge how.

The first question which we had to decide had nothing to do with the occurrence or non-occurrence of any occult episode in the boy's stream of consciousness; it was the question whether or not he had the required higher-level competence, that of knowing how to tie reef-knots.

The difference between a normal person and an idiot is not that the normal person is really two persons while the idiot is only one, but that the normal person can do a lot of things which the idiot cannot do;

The careful driver is not actually imagining or planning for all of the countless contingencies that might crop up; nor is he merely competent to recognise and cope with any one of them, if it should arise. He has not foreseen the runaway donkey, yet he is not unprepared for it.

Who you know only gets you in the door; what you know gets you the keys to the house.

There's nothing a man can do, that i can't do better and in heels